How many hats do you own?

[jamespowers]

I am not going to answer how many but I have enough to compare.
In answer to what's wrong with them, where should I start?
Sweatband
not water repellant for more than ten minutes
lousy felt
glued in liner versus sewn in---not to mention the cheap liner material they use
dark colors fade
stitching comes loose easily
wears like tissue paper
something just not right about the ribbon material and bow style
and on and on.
This is true for most factory made hats though. Custom hatters have most of these problems solved.

Regards,

J

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

I'm gonna have to hold at 6.

Three Open Roads( 2 fur felt, 1 straw), one Resistol San Antonio (fur felt OR-style), and two Resistol cowboy hats (1 straw and 1 wool felt).

I'm gonna have to say I'm on hold on future acquisitions for a while.

 

[captain johnny]

i got 1 on the way now but i can see i am going to have a new addiction here .somebody stop me!

 

[Lauren]

Well over 20- I'll have to go through and count sometime if I dare!

 

[skwerl-hat]

only 3 for me right now! (edited +2) 10/3/2006

one stetson select straw
one knox 20 felt
one resistol stingy
one borsalino torino
one royal stetson (on its way soon)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Just wondering: is a yarmulke considered half a hat? lol

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[jml90]

Just wondering: is a yarmulke considered half a hat? lol

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You can sew it on to a visor a make a whole hat

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

Just wondering: is a yarmulke considered half a hat?

Well, I seriously wonder if a midget potcloth you have to fix with several hairpins is a reasonable headcovering. Covering one's head is more a custom than a commandment for Jews, but if you do, do it right. Also funny that during the last decades, Modern Orthodox Jews often don't wear anything else on their heads in the street - and then indoors don a hat for prayers. The Ultra-Orthodox, however, wear a hat in the street when the weather's fair, and when it starts raining, they put a plastic bag on it. For decorum…

 

[BigSho]

All I have to say is thata lot of Jews wear a lot of very nice hats. Borsalino is almost in the Torah. I am sure besdore knows quite a bit about it.

Jeremy
http://www.hats-plus.com

 

[Fortino37]

Let's make a list of my lids

Dobbs Fedora20 (gray)
Dobbs Fedora (green)
Dobbs Fedora 15 (gray)
Dobbs 15 Homburg (brown)
Dobbs Homburg (blue)
Dobbs Homburg (brown)
Dobbs Fedora 15 wide brim (light gray)
Dobbs Fedora (brown)
Dobbs boater
Dobbs Panama Fedora
Stetson Fedora the Sovereing (dark gray)
Stetson Fdeora XXX (light gray)
Stetson Fedora Whippet (light gray)
Stetson Fedora Whippet (brown)
Stetson Nutira Fedora (black)
Stetson Open Road (light gray)
Stetson Playboy (green)
Stetson Playboy (light gray)
Stetson Playboy from the 40's (light gray)
Stetson Playboy light (gray)
Stetson Homburg St. Regis (brown)
Stetson Homburg St. Regis (green)
Stetson Homburg Vita-felt (black)
Stetson Special Homburg (dark gray)
Stetson Medallist (Blue-gray)
Stetson Stetsonian (blue-gray)
Stetson Medallist Tardan (gray) (Furfelt made in Mexico) 40's
Stetson Stratoliner (brown)
Stetson Stratoliner (dark gray)
Stetson Fedora from the 30's (Fawn)
Resistol 10 Homburg (gray)
Lee Aetna Homburg (gray)
Mallory Homburg (black)
Mallory Sportabout Fedora (green)
Mallory the Dallas (tan)
Mallory Ten Fedora (green)
Bond Fedora (brown)
Bowler from Chisrty's
Knox 20 Fedora (beige)
Adam Executive (brown)
Adam boater
Cavanaugh Fedora (light gray)
Wm Paul Brodt XXX Homburg (deep blue)
Marathon Fedora (light gray)
Fedora Tardan (brown) (Fur felt made in Mexico) 40's
Modern boater from florence Italy
Haddon Hall Fedora (green)
Champ Fedora (blue)
Boater Cesari
Knox Milan

50 hats if my memory don't fail

Fortino37

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

41 with two on the way... did I count the one on my head? Yes, I think so. lol

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

I think this list is complete... something always seems to turn up.

Stetson: 13

Grey Homburg
Grey Whippet
Grey Royal DeLuxe Fedora
Caribou Chatham
Black Chatham
Black cowboy
Royal Open Road
Open Road 5X "Stubbs"
Open Road 3X
Green Playboy
Medalist Vita Felt
3X Beaver "Roswell"
Brown Stratoliner (on the way)

Borsalino: 5

"Open Road"
Saigon-Pnom Penh
Black Trieste Homburg
Grey Trieste Homburg
Brown Roma

Resistol: 3

Brown 707 stingy
Grey 707 stingy
Porkpie

Adam: 3

Grey fedora
Tan fedora
Top Hat

Dobbs: 3

Black stingy
Gay Prince stingy
Brown Homburg (on the way)

Others: 16

Singewalt Top Hat
Knox olive stingy
Stephen L. Stetson tan/green
Mallory Homburg
Cavanagh Homburg
Akubra Federation Deluxe
Cuenca Briso Panama
Cuenca Panama
No name black Bowler
London Bowler
Knapp-Felt Bowler
Barton Stingy
Scott & Co.
Lock & Co.
Disney
Flechet green fuzzy

Total: 43

 

[Sox]

I only have three hats (not counting baseball caps). Hope to have more but I have limited storage space. There seems to be many of you that have 30+ hats. I am wondering how you store them in order to keep them from losing their shape and collecting dust, moths etc.

 

[Dav3]

Yikes! I had no idea some of you had so many hats.

I've just got the one, and it's a beater. I got it 3 years ago and the brand is "mantles". I didn't know much about fedoras then, and never really thought of buying off the internet.

I'm in the market for a new hat, as it were, which is what led me to the lounge here. I've been trying to learn as much about vintage fedoras as possible and I check ebay daily to see if anything interesting pops up.

There's a nice one in my size that I'm keeping an eye on, but I'm thinking the price wil probably go past my student budget before the end of the auction. Ah well. Just got to keep looking.

 

[skwerl-hat]

you all know this thread is going to provoke some people with only a couple hats for example me and others into a hat buying frenzy due to embarassment at our small collection.

:-D

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Relax. Quality matters more than quantity.


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[DOUGLAS]

I'm afraid to count how many.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

you all know this thread is going to provoke some people with only a couple hats for example me and others into a hat buying frenzy due to embarassment at our small collection.

:-D

I think it's more embarrassing to admit that you've lost your mind and have 40 damn hats. lol

I suppose I ought to thin the herd, but they're all different and I love 'em all!

As for storage, I'd like to know the answer, too.

 

[SHARPETOYS]

31 customs from Steve Delk, Art Fawcett and Optimo Hat Co.... 13 Montecristi Panama hats from Panamabob....Plus 12 Factory hats including vintage.
Total 56... Plus a dozen or so custom made newsboys from Brett Stiles B! Wear cap co.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

With a collection like that, you'd darn well better insure it!

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