Maclachlan Hats

[Just Daniel]

Woohoo!

MacLachlan Golden Beaver Hundred. More pics when I have them. View attachment 266461 View attachment 266462 View attachment 266463

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Two more Macs. These were made for the Harness Horse Hat Co.
First, the gray

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Brown Hambletonian by MacLachlan

 

[deadlyhandsome]

My latest Mac Lachlan. It doesn’t have a model or price designation on it, but here is a $10.95 price tag on the inside of the sweatband.

Approximately 5 1/2 inches open crown and two inch wide brim. The brim edge is different for me: it has a sewn underwelt, but it also has a treatment that resembles a Cavanagh edge on the top side of the brim.

Nice mid-weight dress felt that easily dry creases. It’s in very good condition; however, the seller measured it for me and said it was 23 7/8 inches in circumference. I can only assume that he used the outside circumference.

Another swing and a miss: It’s going on ebay.

 

[Blare]

My latest Mac Lachlan. It doesn’t have a model or price designation on it, but here is a $10.95 price tag on the inside of the sweatband.

Approximately 5 1/2 inches open crown and two inch wide brim. The brim edge is different for me: it has a sewn underwelt, but it also has a treatment that resembles a Cavanagh edge on the top side of the brim.

Nice mid-weight dress felt that easily dry creases. It’s in very good condition; however, the seller measured it for me and said it was 23 7/8 inches in circumference. I can only assume that he used the outside circumference.


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Another swing and a miss: It’s going on ebay.

Nice hat Brent. Too bad on the size.

 

[Tukwila]

My latest Mac Lachlan. It doesn’t have a model or price designation on it, but here is a $10.95 price tag on the inside of the sweatband.

Approximately 5 1/2 inches open crown and two inch wide brim. The brim edge is different for me: it has a sewn underwelt, but it also has a treatment that resembles a Cavanagh edge on the top side of the brim.

Nice mid-weight dress felt that easily dry creases. It’s in very good condition; however, the seller measured it for me and said it was 23 7/8 inches in circumference. I can only assume that he used the outside circumference.


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Another swing and a miss: It’s going on ebay.

My daughter's Knox Tom n Jerry has a brim treatment like that.... looks like a felted edge, but it's a sewn underwelt.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

My daughter's Knox Tom n Jerry has a brim treatment like that.... looks like a felted edge, but it's a sewn underwelt.

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Yes! It looks identical. I can’t figure out where the felt for the top...”ridge” comes from.

 

[Blare]

My daughter's Knox Tom n Jerry has a brim treatment like that.... looks like a felted edge, but it's a sewn underwelt.

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I have a Mallory like it as well. Kind of a poor mans Cavanagh edge I think.

 

[Blare]

Yes! It looks identical. I can’t figure out where the felt for the top...”ridge” comes from.

I suspected they had a thin strip of felt that they wrapped the welt around.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I suspected they had a thin strip of felt that they wrapped the welt around.

You could well be right. On the underside of the brim there is a row of stitches that hold the folded over welt in place. Just inside of the welt there is another row or stitching that does not show up on the top of the brim. The stitching holding a strip of felt in place sounds reasonable. From the top of the brim it’s looks quite a bit like a true Cavanagh edge.

Photos below are the brim edge from underneath. The row of stitches closest to the edge hold the welted over double thickness of felt in place. The row of stitches right at the edge where the welt ends and the single thinkness of felt continues toward the crown could be what holds the strip of felt, or some other filler, in place. They were willing to go to some real effort to give it this treatment.

 

[Tukwila]

Yes! It looks identical. I can’t figure out where the felt for the top...”ridge” comes from.

And I don't want to take apart the stitching to see how they did it, either...

 

[Blare]

And I don't want to take apart the stitching to see how they did it, either...

EXACTLY

 

[BobHufford]

This small MacLachlan sold at auction recently. Did anyone here get it? I thought it should be added to the thread based on the model name anyway.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

This small MacLachlan sold at auction recently. Did anyone here get it? I thought it should be added to the thread based on the model name anyway.

I wish I had seen it.

 

[Just Daniel]

Whew. I missed it too.

This small MacLachlan sold at auction recently. Did anyone here get it? I thought it should be added to the thread based on the model name anyway.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

MacLachlan Golden Beaver Hundred. Restored by Optimo

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Head pics

 

[Raybuntu]

Excuse me if this has been answered before but I could not find anything. I have been seeing a lot of MacLachlan hats with these "notches" (dunno how else to call it) in the felt on the downside of the brim in the front. What is that for? Is that part of the Air-Vac ventilation or is the purpose for the brim to snap more down?

 

[hatsRme]

Excuse me if this has been answered before but I could not find anything. I have been seeing a lot of MacLachlan hats with these "notches" (dunno how else to call it) in the felt on the downside of the brim in the front. What is that for? Is that part of the Air-Vac ventilation or is the purpose for the brim to snap more down?

Howdy! Yes, they are part of the Air-vac “system.”
Now another question.... where have you been seeing a lot of MacLachlans?!!!

 

[Raybuntu]

Howdy! Yes, they are part of the Air-vac “system.”
Now another question.... where have you been seeing a lot of MacLachlans?!!!

Thanks. Only on photos here on the forum is several threads. So how does that work? Those notches let air flow under the sweatband in? Isn't the sweatband attached to the felt in the front?