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I'll Lock Up
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From around 1900
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The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.
- Thread starter The Wiser Hatter
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Arizona small town sheriff. Duncan, Arizona. 1936. Dorothea Lange, photographer.
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Nice day for a picnic. James River near Springfield, Missouri circa 1880.
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^ The young lady in this photo looks familiar to me, but I have no idea why.
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You went to different schools together?
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Could be. Her hat seems a bit ostentatious for school though.
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From a Texas photo studio, circa 1915.
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Sheepherder, Ouray County, Colorado
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Binger, Oklahoma on Statehood Day (1907).
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- Tobacco sharecropper
- Person County, North Carolina
- Dorothea Lange
- July 1939
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Happy Easter everyone.
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- 12,133
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- Tobacco sharecropper
- Person County, North Carolina
- Dorothea Lange
- July 1939
Does anyone here have a hat in a similar condition to the one the Gent in the photo is wearing in size 7-1/2 / 60 cm that they'd be willing to part with at a price commensurate with the hat's condition? Y'know, "cheap"?
If a hat has that much HONEST wear, then it probably has a lot of sentimental value. But, these days, there are people who will take a decent hat and make it look like that overnight. DISHONEST wear seems to have some added value as well. It's a crazy world.
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Growing up, I had more than a few ball caps, flat caps, and wool felt "costume" hats (at least that's what they felt like to me), and they each had their short-time appeal, but I didn't own my first "real" hat (i.e., "higher quality, fur felt") until 2008 when I was in my late-40s, found The Lounge, and got a bit of an education on what I should and shouldn't expect from a higher quality hat than I'd ever owned before. What I really wanted was a "beater" hat, but damn if these fur felts don't "take a lickin' and keep on tickin'". I'm very pleased I still have my fur felts, but early on I was kinda' hoping some of the conversations about durability might not have been simple "sales talk", and that they would, by now, be showing some signs of real wear and tear. But even that first hat is still in great condition, so I've learned my lesson and decided I need to start keeping my eyes open for a fur felt that's already been around the block more than a few times. I haven't found it yet, and in this part of California brimmed hats aren't particularly plentiful, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
