This is pathetic

[Matt Deckard]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14065&item=8316921746&rd=1

 

[ClintonHammond]

It looks like it ws stolen from Kermit The Frog!

LOL

 

[jake_fink]

Pathetic, yes...

...but also quite funny.

 

[hatflick1]

Pathetic

And just imagine if it read: 'Reserve Not Met'.

 

[Nathan Flowers]

It doesn't even look like it's been blocked.

 

[xcubbies]

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Didn't Julie Andrews wear that in TMM?

 

[Johnnysan]

Best described as "aesthetically challenged" (read: "butt ugly.")

 

[SHARPETOYS]

Do you think its a 1000X or a 1500X ?? Could it be The Million X I've read about!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I think it's a woman's hat.

karol

 

[Dahlia]

I agree with Karol, it looks like a woman's hat. And not a pretty one, either.

 

[Johnnysan]

Didn't someone on this forum have a dog that likes to eat hats? Just a thought.

LOL...hope that it tastes better than it looks!

 

[Oscar Tong]

Eww! What an awful-looking hat! For one thing, the band on the outside is too wide.

I object to the "gangster" label that people, mainly my peers, use for anybody wearing a fedora, as well. Hrmph! [bad]

 

[Feraud]

1 - Can anyone tell me more about that "great convocation" that took place in the 40's?...

2 - Is that "top quality fur-felt" the fabled terry cloth the "gangsters" used in the late 40's?

3 - That is a wide ribbon!

 

[Big Man]

Ugly hat?

While not quite as "butt ugly" as the ebay hat, I think the hat in this picture is rather close in style. Look at the width of the ribbon. This photo was made around 1925, and is my great uncle, Brisco Brown, who was living in Napa, CA at the time.

 

[Matt Deckard]

The hat on your uncle is great, I have one like that myself though the ribbon is a little narrower.

To be quite honest, it is nowhere near the style of the hat that was on Ebay. I have seen ones like the one on Ebay in person... very soft flimsy shapeless. Kind of like what I saw at Gelot in France. You couldn't get it to hold the shape of your uncles hat.

 

[Big Man]

Agreed, my great uncle's hat (although not my favorite style) looks sharp, and is no where near the same "quality" of the ebay hat. What did, however, catch my eye was the width of the ribbon on both his hat and the ebay hat.

 

[jake_fink]

Another great photo from the Big Man family archives

The hat on your uncle Brisco is great, but that shadow on the tree makes it look like the hat has a big curled feather on it. That's amusing.

 

[Big Man]

I hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it. Now that's all I can see. Funny what the "power of suggestion" can do.

 

[Oscar Tong]

I've never before seen the kind of hat that Big Man's great uncle is wearing in the above picture. Does it have a name, or is it simply a variation of another kind of hat?

 

[Daniel Riser]

If it was unbashed it would look almost identical to most crowns available in the twenties and thirties. The only difference is that this hat is bashed on the sides rather than a front pinch. It is generally called the Manhattan. In my experience not everyone can pull this style off because it gives a very distinctly tapered appearance.

I know I can't get away with it.