It would be a real shame to loose that cool edge treatment. That is a super wide brim width though. I would love to see your trademark crease with a swoopy fedora brim, even if it is wide.I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with this newest black Borsalino project of mine. I don't know how to decide on this. The brim on this one, after I took it apart and sized it up from a 7 1/8 to a 7 1/4, is still pretty wide at 3 1/4. Too wide for a fedora to suit me. I can easily fix that by trimming the brim to 2 3/4 and having myself another nice black Borsalino fedora with the proportions I like. On the other hand, if I do that, I lose the brim stitching around the edge. The other option, if I don't want to lose the stitched brim edge treatment is to make it a Western. Here's an idea of what it would look like if I choose to make this a western. This is only a quick dry creased and make shift cattleman and the brim is only 'dry shaped' as well until I decide what I want to do. Thoughts, anybody?
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I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with this newest black Borsalino project of mine. I don't know how to decide on this. The brim on this one, after I took it apart and sized it up from a 7 1/8 to a 7 1/4, is still pretty wide at 3 1/4. Too wide for a fedora to suit me. I can easily fix that by trimming the brim to 2 3/4 and having myself another nice black Borsalino fedora with the proportions I like. On the other hand, if I do that, I lose the brim stitching around the edge. The other option, if I don't want to lose the stitched brim edge treatment is to make it a Western. Here's an idea of what it would look like if I choose to make this a western. This is only a quick dry creased and make shift cattleman and the brim is only 'dry shaped' as well until I decide what I want to do. Thoughts, anybody?
I think it looks very good as a western actually. I believe these wide brimmed black hats are aimed at the orthodox jewish community (the wider the brim the more pious the wearer). They wear their hats in their own style. Making it a regular fedora would probably make it look a bit odd, so the western makeover is a good bet. Looks good in the picture already.I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with this newest black Borsalino project of mine. I don't know how to decide on this. The brim on this one, after I took it apart and sized it up from a 7 1/8 to a 7 1/4, is still pretty wide at 3 1/4. Too wide for a fedora to suit me. I can easily fix that by trimming the brim to 2 3/4 and having myself another nice black Borsalino fedora with the proportions I like. On the other hand, if I do that, I lose the brim stitching around the edge. The other option, if I don't want to lose the stitched brim edge treatment is to make it a Western. Here's an idea of what it would look like if I choose to make this a western. This is only a quick dry creased and make shift cattleman and the brim is only 'dry shaped' as well until I decide what I want to do. Thoughts, anybody?
Thank you buddy. I did a dry run that way but it just didn't look right with that wide of a brim. I could cut the brim down and make it look really good as a fedora, but as you said, I just can't bring myself to losing that brim edge treatment. So definitely, making it a Western is my only option at this point if I want to keep the brim edge treatment and make it look right. Just gotta figure out what kind of crown crease I want. I'm kinda pulling away from the Cattleman and opting for a more old school Western look.
Thank you, steur. I believe Western's the way I'm going with it at this point. It could very well be that these black wide brimmed Borsas were made for the Jewish community. I was skeptical about that at first, but the more I looked into those wide brimmed Borsas the more I think some of you guys are right about that.
Sound advice, buddy. I believe I'll do that.
What would you say to try to keep the brim flat? And then make a straight crown. So keep the seam that borders the brim and you have a straight crown and the flat brim like a pair of Borsalino models of the past days. Look at the photos I've posted, some days ago of the black Borsalino with wide brim
That's a nice one, Daniele! Thanks for sharing that.What would you say to try to keep the brim flat? And then make a straight crown. So keep the seam that borders the brim and you have a straight crown and the flat brim like a pair of Borsalino models of the past days. Look at the photos I've posted, some days ago of the black Borsalino with wide brim
I think you could have some inspiration
Thanks to Terry's and Daniel's posts about a Fedora Borsalino, I've been encouraged to look afresh at a Borsalino Homburg I bought a couple of years or so ago.What would you say to try to keep the brim flat? And then make a straight crown. So keep the seam that borders the brim and you have a straight crown and the flat brim like a pair of Borsalino models of the past days. Look at the photos I've posted, some days ago of the black Borsalino with wide brim
I think you could have some inspiration
Thanks to Terry's and Daniel's posts about a Fedora Borsalino, I've been encouraged to look afresh at a Borsalino Homburg I bought a couple of years or so ago.
The brim was very flat and wide (7cm) and the crown quite high at 15cm, which led me to speculate that it was a Borsalino made for my brethren in the Orthodox Jewish Community.
I'm still not sure about this, perhaps the brim just went floppy due to storage issues, but the "before" photos posted below will either confirm or deny my speculation regarding its religious hat origin.
I'm not orthodox and don't need to look more Jewish than my heritage says I am, not that I'm at all ashamed of that, so I wanted to give this Borsa a new, more classic Homburg shape. The after photos hopefully show how my attempts turned out.
I forgot to take photos of me with the hat in its flat brim state, but hope the brim change from flat to curl can be seen.
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Thanks, Deadly. I guess I'm one of those guys who loves curves [emoji6]
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This may have been mentioned and I missed it but what about a kettle curl? You get to keep the brim but shorten the visual and give it fedora bash.I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with this newest black Borsalino project of mine. I don't know how to decide on this. The brim on this one, after I took it apart and sized it up from a 7 1/8 to a 7 1/4, is still pretty wide at 3 1/4. Too wide for a fedora to suit me. I can easily fix that by trimming the brim to 2 3/4 and having myself another nice black Borsalino fedora with the proportions I like. On the other hand, if I do that, I lose the brim stitching around the edge. The other option, if I don't want to lose the stitched brim edge treatment is to make it a Western. Here's an idea of what it would look like if I choose to make this a western. This is only a quick dry creased and make shift cattleman and the brim is only 'dry shaped' as well until I decide what I want to do. Thoughts, anybody?
