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New to me Knox Excellent Boater... a little unusual in weave and proportions.

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Rats Riley

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Whitewater WI
Got this beat up medium hair 3x beaver Towncraft off ebay for $10 a couple months ago. No lining, dirty as heck and a torn up black ribbon. After a lot of steam and brushing and some ribbon from Etsy this is what I ended up with.

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The sweat is seriously distressed but intact.
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The best thing about this hat is all the white hairs. My wife says it reminds her of me.
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The ribbon work is my own. It's simplistic, but I'm getting better at it.
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Sorry for the poor lighting. It's cloudy today.
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Excellent idea with the ribbon!
 

Short Balding Guy

I'll Lock Up
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Location
Minnesota, USA
Lee Adventure...America's favorite light weight with new contrast spring trim. $10.00

I would like to share my new Lee Hat - Lee Adventure.

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"More incredible are the light weight tests that prove how cloud-like a Lee-for-Spring really is. It actually takes two to balance an ordinary felt. Yet light as only a Lee can be, it is lifelong rigged too. Every Lee is pre-shaped. Crush it-and you just flick it back into shape. And for sheer quality, just feel the richness of these imported fur fibers. Water-repellent, or course -and nylon stiched, too."

The gun-metal gray hat with a green-gray ribbon is fine example of the hats offered with the advertisement in the pic. To offer a better contrast to the richness of the color I have included a pic with a cream Lee All American. This Lee hat is very smart looking when worn. It has a crisp masculine styling that steps beyond it's smaller brim.

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The hat is without a liner and extremely clean and neat. The protector, at the top of the inside crown, has a green border and they have attached it with a pale yellow ribbon. Great looking effect. For the inquisitive, the thread shows no marks on the top suface of the hat. Stiched without nary a mark - wow. All for $10.00 at the time - I say good workman ship for the price. The felt is soft, maleable, supple without feeling flimsy. I dare say very close to my brown newer Borso -Alex.'s felt. Remarkable that a hat with this heritage has such nice features.

A parade, a pagent - featuring my Brilliant Lee Adventure. Thanks for taking a look.

Eric -

BTW: Behind the hat is a copy of a 2 page 1954 Lee Hat advertisment. Here is the second page;
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This is not a good pic. I have included it to showcase the efforts that Lee was putting into ad marketing in mags with the use of color. I have the 2 page spread waiting to be framed for hanging in my wardrobe.
 
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Somewhere south of crazy
I would like to share my new Lee Hat - Lee Adventure.

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"More incredible are the light weight tests that prove how cloud-like a Lee-for-Spring really is. It actually takes two to balance an ordinary felt. Yet light as only a Lee can be, it is lifelong rigged too. Every Lee is pre-shaped. Crush it-and you just flick it back into shape. And for sheer quality, just feel the richness of these imported fur fibers. Water-repellent, or course -and nylon stiched, too."

The gun-metal gray hat with a green-gray ribbon is fine example of the hats offered with the advertisement in the pic. To offer a better contrast to the richness of the color I have included a pic with a cream Lee All American. This Lee hat is very smart looking when worn. It has a crisp masculine styling that steps beyond it's smaller brim.

IMG7858-L.jpg


The hat is without a liner and extremely clean and neat. The protector, at the top of the inside crown, has a green border and they have attached it with a pale yellow ribbon. Great looking effect. For the inquisitive, the thread shows no marks on the top suface of the hat. Stiched without nary a mark - wow. All for $10.00 at the time - I say good workman ship for the price. The felt is soft, maleable, supple without feeling flimsy. I dare say very close to my brown newer Borso -Alex.'s felt. Remarkable that a hat with this heritage has such nice features.

A parade, a pagent - featuring my Brilliant Lee Adventure. Thanks for taking a look.

Eric -

BTW: Behind the hat is a copy of a 2 page 1954 Lee Hat advertisment. Here is the second page;
IMG7859-M.jpg

This is not a good pic. I have included it to showcase the efforts that Lee was putting into ad marketing in mags with the use of color. I have the 2 page spread waiting to be framed for hanging in my wardrobe.

Very nice Lee, Eric!
 
Man, life gets in the way and you miss so much on here!

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Gray Stetson 3X Mode Edge from Ebay. $40, with no other bidders. I was surprised at that.

apparently myself as well as a lot of other 'loungers were asleep at the wheel for that one! great catch!

Excellent idea with the ribbon!
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Very nice Lee, Eric!

I have a light weight felt hat that has a similar type of sewn in liner, I also wondered how they did that without showing the stitches on on the other side, must be a better seamstress than myself [huh]
 
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Location
Buffalo, NY
Thanks Rats and Lefty for the boater thumbs up.

Yes, the sweat is in good condition on this one and it seems to have some moisture tolerance too. Some of these real old leather sweats seem supple enough to the hand and then get all crackly at the slightest hint of sweat... I hate when one of these catches me by surprise on a hot day.
 

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