wandering-trader
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Updated with hat size chart and how to measure for hat size.
Please tell me if I missed anything on page 4.
Please tell me if I missed anything on page 4.
Pinch looks to be pointing too far back in the side dent.
It is the very front part. I like long side dents. JMHO...
Even if you pinned the examination to one year in one location it would still be a broad generalization, and progressively less valid as you approach the last few decades. Increase the geographical coverage and/or time frame and it rapidly loses any consistency. The only hat that was traditionally(for an extended continuous period) "formal" would have been the Top Hat. Currently the issue of formality rules is pretty nonsensical as even a hint of formality is largely the concern of a small minority without concensus.
A driving cap and an 8-panel are about as different as a fedora and a homburg, maybe even more so, as they are patterned and assembled differently, so a differentiation should be made, imo.
About the boater, or as they were called back in the day, straw hat, I'd say that they were worn with just about every possible type of clothing, from black tie all the way down to day laborers digging ditches in work clothes.
Well said!
'Bandit's Roost' off Mulberry Street (Manhattan), 1887