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daizawaguy
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Familiar but ORIGINAL! You wear that baby well:eusa_clapYeps said:My first vintage hat, a Stetson St. Regis, came in today (bought from another member of the lounge, so it may be familiar.)
jeffconnors
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Aquatised royal stetson with a back bow 
7 3/8
7 3/8
Mr. Paladin
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Yeps said:My first vintage hat, a Stetson St. Regis, came in today (bought from another member of the lounge, so it may be familiar.)
Sharp! It does not look the slightest out of place on you. :eusa_clap
jeffconnors
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mystery derby
G.W. Hess Philadelphia hat maker??
Any help with this one?
Brad?[huh]
G.W. Hess Philadelphia hat maker??
Any help with this one?
Brad?[huh]
Another straw hat ... for the summer to come!
Don´t know, if I bothered to post this one after I got it last summer. However, here it is. I fancied the silly idea to take a snow picture of the lid.
Quite a diference in weight, when used to felts. Bhuddah would have certainly favored felt hats over straws. Felts do not involve the flippant concern about frivilous weavecounts and one can keep one´s unfettered peace of mind lol
Don´t know, if I bothered to post this one after I got it last summer. However, here it is. I fancied the silly idea to take a snow picture of the lid.
Quite a diference in weight, when used to felts. Bhuddah would have certainly favored felt hats over straws. Felts do not involve the flippant concern about frivilous weavecounts and one can keep one´s unfettered peace of mind lol
Brad Bowers
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Very nice Derby, but unfortunately, I have no information for you. It might have been one of the many smaller hatters that had disappeared by the Depression. It could also have been a private label.
Brad
Brad
Mario
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Resurrected - Louis Custom Hatters
Ok. So this is my Louis Custom Hatters lid, the one that came in Pandora's hatbox.
Here you have all the sordid details:
Some of you might remember that this was a little risky purchase, as it was tagged 7 1/8, but repeated measurings with different techniques (so to speak) always yielded a smaller hat size, somwhere between 6 7/8 and 7.
When it arrived the first thing that occured to me was that someone must have dunked the hat in stiffener - a lid to give Oddjob a run for his money! It was also too large - more or less a true 7 1/8. Well, well..
I thought it would be a good idea to start with getting a bit of the stiffener out of the hat and so I began to spray it with denatured alcohol (I protected the sweat with a few layers of pastic foil before I started, mind you). Now after some spraying I suddenly noticed to my utter dismay that the ribbon had started to bleed its black dye onto the felt...
I dissembled the whole hat as fast as I could, put my gloves on, dunked it in Naptha and had a go at it with a brush. After the Naptha I put in another round with some more denatured alcohol, as this was the stuff that got the dye out of the ribbon to start with. After that I let the poor thing dry for a couple of hours. I repeated the whole cycle three times and when I was through and done with it the stains seemed to had largely gone, with the exception of the area where the ribbon had touched the felt, but I believe those stains had been there long before I crashed the hat.
After the hat had dried for the third time I took the next logical step and soaked it in water. Then I linked four cable fixers together (I had figured out how long they would have to be beforehand) and put them over the crown with a spare sweat beneath it to distribute the pressure more evenly. That whole assembly went onto my hatstand to dry. Which it did. When I took the cable fixers off - well, I had to learn that the sweat had kindly shared some of its dye with the hat...
Back to cleaning. This time some of the dye stayed on the felt no matter how hard I tried to get it off. Bye bye, ribbon. Luckily I still had a vintage ribbon from my defunct Dobbs 20 that was broad enough to cover up the markings left by the sweat. So after soaking the hat in water once again, putting it on the hatstand (this time I covered the sweat with layers of plastic foil!), letting it dry and ironing the brim I was finally ready to sew in a new sweatband - for the first time ever... Well, let me just say that I wouldn't want to show you - or anybody else - my needlework, that's for sure. I doesn't look pretty but it holds the sweat in place. And I managed not to bleed onto the off-white felt... Well, after I finished the sweat I proceeded to curse the ribbon into place - again without a major loss of blood.
It is now still a wee bit too large so that I had to put some strips of felt behind the sweat but that's no major deal. The funny thing is that now, after all the denatured alcohol, the felt is so free of any stiffener that I really need to buy another can of the stuff and give the hat a gentle treatment with it...
Conclusion: I consider the whole thing as a makeshift solution for now. As soon as I have my block ready I'll dissemble the hat again and start over putting it together in a more orderly fashion and - hopefully - in the perfect size.
So. That was that... :eusa_doh:
Now on to the hat facts:
Crown: 5" (creased)/6" (open)
Brim: 2 5/8" Cavanagh Edge
Ribbon: 2 7/8"
The colour is a very light gray. In fact it is so light that it's almost white. I like that!
I put in a 4-point diamond and think that this is actually a pretty nice hat now...
The photo of the sweat is obviously that of the original.
Ok. So this is my Louis Custom Hatters lid, the one that came in Pandora's hatbox.
Here you have all the sordid details:
Some of you might remember that this was a little risky purchase, as it was tagged 7 1/8, but repeated measurings with different techniques (so to speak) always yielded a smaller hat size, somwhere between 6 7/8 and 7.
When it arrived the first thing that occured to me was that someone must have dunked the hat in stiffener - a lid to give Oddjob a run for his money! It was also too large - more or less a true 7 1/8. Well, well..
I thought it would be a good idea to start with getting a bit of the stiffener out of the hat and so I began to spray it with denatured alcohol (I protected the sweat with a few layers of pastic foil before I started, mind you). Now after some spraying I suddenly noticed to my utter dismay that the ribbon had started to bleed its black dye onto the felt...
I dissembled the whole hat as fast as I could, put my gloves on, dunked it in Naptha and had a go at it with a brush. After the Naptha I put in another round with some more denatured alcohol, as this was the stuff that got the dye out of the ribbon to start with. After that I let the poor thing dry for a couple of hours. I repeated the whole cycle three times and when I was through and done with it the stains seemed to had largely gone, with the exception of the area where the ribbon had touched the felt, but I believe those stains had been there long before I crashed the hat.
After the hat had dried for the third time I took the next logical step and soaked it in water. Then I linked four cable fixers together (I had figured out how long they would have to be beforehand) and put them over the crown with a spare sweat beneath it to distribute the pressure more evenly. That whole assembly went onto my hatstand to dry. Which it did. When I took the cable fixers off - well, I had to learn that the sweat had kindly shared some of its dye with the hat...
Back to cleaning. This time some of the dye stayed on the felt no matter how hard I tried to get it off. Bye bye, ribbon. Luckily I still had a vintage ribbon from my defunct Dobbs 20 that was broad enough to cover up the markings left by the sweat. So after soaking the hat in water once again, putting it on the hatstand (this time I covered the sweat with layers of plastic foil!), letting it dry and ironing the brim I was finally ready to sew in a new sweatband - for the first time ever... Well, let me just say that I wouldn't want to show you - or anybody else - my needlework, that's for sure. I doesn't look pretty but it holds the sweat in place. And I managed not to bleed onto the off-white felt... Well, after I finished the sweat I proceeded to curse the ribbon into place - again without a major loss of blood.
It is now still a wee bit too large so that I had to put some strips of felt behind the sweat but that's no major deal. The funny thing is that now, after all the denatured alcohol, the felt is so free of any stiffener that I really need to buy another can of the stuff and give the hat a gentle treatment with it...
Conclusion: I consider the whole thing as a makeshift solution for now. As soon as I have my block ready I'll dissemble the hat again and start over putting it together in a more orderly fashion and - hopefully - in the perfect size.
So. That was that...
:eusa_doh: Now on to the hat facts:
Crown: 5" (creased)/6" (open)
Brim: 2 5/8" Cavanagh Edge
Ribbon: 2 7/8"
The colour is a very light gray. In fact it is so light that it's almost white. I like that!
I put in a 4-point diamond and think that this is actually a pretty nice hat now...
The photo of the sweat is obviously that of the original.
Mario
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Aureliano said:
Thanks!
No I'm going to make the block myself. Coated styrofoam...
Mario
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Lefty said:
Thank you so much, Lefty. This one I really made my own...
djgo-cat-go
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Mario said:
What a labourious proces, good story man! Too cool! So, you didn't panic once?
lol The result looks very good, but you're making me very curious about the stitch-work on that sweatband.. Can I seduce you into taking a picture of that and share it
I'm not so convinced that it looks that bad as you described it, and for that matter, it could be a real stimulus and perhaps encouraging for other members, like me, who contemplate on restoring old hats (I'm not so handy with a needle myself and at this moment I do not dare remove/replace a sweatband)..Good work, and that lid suits you well.:eusa_clap
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+1 show us!
djgo-cat-go said:What a labourious proces, good story man! Too cool! So, you didn't panic once?
The result looks very good, but you're making me very curious about the stitch-work on that sweatband.. Can I seduce you into taking a picture of that and share it
Good work, and that lid suits you well.:eusa_clap
+1 show us!
Hollyce
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My Amazing Real Vintage Whoopee Hat cira 1930s
For more pictures of my whoopee hat:http://s322.photobucket.com/albums/nn426/hollyce_bucket/Amazing Etsy stuff/
For more pictures of my whoopee hat:http://s322.photobucket.com/albums/nn426/hollyce_bucket/Amazing Etsy stuff/
So my other new hat, a gambler from Sundbody hats, came in today, and I have mixed feelings. It may just be that it is the dead of winter right now and this is a summer hat, but I am not sure.
Here is a picture of me pretending it is summer.
It is a nice hat, but I am not so sure about it. It seems very country. I did not quite realize how big 3.5 inches is for a brim.
Here is a picture of me pretending it is summer.
It is a nice hat, but I am not so sure about it. It seems very country. I did not quite realize how big 3.5 inches is for a brim.
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Yeps said:So my other new hat, a gambler from Sundbody hats, came in today, and I have mixed feelings. It may just be that it is the dead of winter right now and this is a summer hat, but I am not sure.
Here is a picture of me pretending it is summer.
It is a nice hat, but I am not so sure about it. It seems very country. I did not quite realize how big 3.5 inches is for a brim.
I think I'd stick with that homburg.....
