Highest price paid, lowest price paid for your fedora.

[Bruce Wayne]

I paid $750 for my Optimo black derby & oxblood diamond this past fall.

 

[jlee562]

$595 for my Optimo Dillinger, and $0.01 for a Stetson golden century from eBay.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

$375.00 for my Vintage Stratoliner so far is the highest price tag paid, $45.00 for a Open Road that has two small moth bites, I have been very happy with any pricing of hats I have purhased, and more so for the hats purchased from fellow Lounge members! THANKS!

 

[Historyteach24]

Highest price was 300 for my Tumwater custom. Lowest was 5 bucks for a Dobbs that I flipped for good money

 

[mayserwegener]

My highest was ~ $400.00. I rarely go over $150 with most in the $60 to $90.00 range. My lowest was ~ $5.00. I wear a 7 1/4 - 7 3/8 , 58 - 59cm so not as many great vintage deals in that size.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

My highest priced hat was the Jaxonbilt Campaign Hat for $370.00. The least expensive was the Olive colored Milan for $35.00 from Hatman Jack on an end of season sale. No Work of Art (yet) or Optimo (not likely) to put my rates up.

Later

 

[BR Gordon]

The lowest price that I have paid was $60 for a 4X Stetson Open Road, on Ebay. The highest priced hat was $670 for a fur felt fedora from Optimo in Chicago.

The above may be incorrect. I have a 900 wpi panama from Art Fawcett that I believe may have cost more than the Optimo, but I don't remember the exact cost.

 

[DougC]

!950s Open Road--$25.00 in Gruene, Texas antique store. Borsalino Alessandria (sorry, I probably misspelled that)--$250.00 at Meyer the Hatter.

 

[countryclubjoe]

some expensive purchases out there. And some great bargains.

Best regards

Ccj

 

[-30-]

"some expensive purchases out there. And some great bargains."
QUOTE: countryclubjoe.

The hat which is described below was worn approximately 6 weeks. (Until I bought the Leon Drexler.)

"The second same day purchase (August) was a black Borsalino, model unknown; rabitt/hare no doubt.
The raw edge brim is 2.75" with a silken 1.5" black band.
A leather sweat and sateen liner finishes it off. (Not reeded.)
Few comments due to the fact that I never wear the hat now because of it's flawed quality issues.
Bought at retail, cost was $380.00 + tax."

The Bosalino is unlikely to be seen on my head again; that Is a Very Expensive Hat.


Regards,
-30-

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

Highest - $190
Lowest - $30

Haven't gotten the crazy thrift store deals yet. It will come.

 

[Chasseur]

Hmm... I have a 60 or 7 1/2 head so the "steals" are few and far between.

For fedoras I got a good deal on a 1940s Dobbs 20 with the guild edge and wind trolley because it was dirty/dusty and the seller throught it was just a beater. I brushed it off and steamed it to reshape it and its a nice hat. Actually, it was a rare 7 5/8 and was a steal and I got it for a little less than $100.

Cheapest vintage was a Champ 1950s tapered one (with wind trolley!)I picked up for only $50 or so. Its not my favorite hat but works very well with 1950s suits:

Most expensive a rebuilt grey Borsalino at about $200 but its my nicest fedora so well worth it.

If we move away from Fedoras I got a couple of great deals on two vintage silk plush top hats (one American with original leather case the other French I picked up in a French flea shop for less than $50!) but getting them re-sized and refurbished is not cheap...

 

[GHT]

When you have what's known as a double crown, you will find most hats are too small. That's why I use a milliner in Edinburgh to hand make my hats. Seven and three quarters, or sixty three in metric. My hats are around £90, but having a crash helmet made to go with the WW2 Harley was, by ratio, dearer than the bike.
My wife texted me last Saturday from a vintage fair, where she and her friend do the retro hairstyles. There was a fedora, in it's original box, with a 1940's receipt, (didn't have my reading glasses to see it properly,) they wanted £38 for it, in mint condition. Too small!!! Again.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Hmm... I have a 60 or 7 1/2 head so the "steals" are few and far between.

For fedoras I got a good deal on a 1940s Dobbs 20 with the guild edge and wind trolley because it was dirty/dusty and the seller throught it was just a beater. I brushed it off and steamed it to reshape it and its a nice hat. Actually, it was a rare 7 5/8 and was a steal and I got it for a little less than $100.

Cheapest vintage was a Champ 1950s tapered one (with wind trolley!)I picked up for only $50 or so. Its not my favorite hat but works very well with 1950s suits:

Most expensive a rebuilt grey Borsalino at about $200 but its my nicest fedora so well worth it.

If we move away from Fedoras I got a couple of great deals on two vintage silk plush top hats (one American with original leather case the other French I picked up in a French flea shop for less than $50!) but getting them re-sized and refurbished is not cheap...

Good looking hats, and suits. I assume you are still a "working unit," and these are business attire?

 

[Chasseur]

Good looking hats, and suits. I assume you are still a "working unit," and these are business attire?

Thanks, I have to ask what do you mean by "working unit"?

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Thanks, I have to ask what do you mean by "working unit"?

Well, I am retired, and no longer a "working unit." Your attire speaks to a young working professional.

 

[Chasseur]

Oh I get it, sorry I've not heard that expression before.
But yes I am working, but since I work at a university in Hawaii there is not suit and tie requirement, I just like collecting nice clothes. Or as I say here, I'm part of the fight the flower movement (aka the anti-Aloha shirt group).