Western, anyone?

[monbla256]

You know, after all this time I still can't get a decent pic of me wearing the hat. It's width makes for a lot of distortion when using an iphone camera. lol

Sadly, Neo, the i-phone is NOT the do all appliance it's made out to be You need to save up and get a CAMERA

 

[Neophyte]

There's still the problem of the "arm's length" shot. However unwieldy an iPhone in that respect, a proper camera is moreso. At least with my clumsy hands .

Also, being in college, spending some cash to be abke to take a better picture of myself seems like a...questionable investment lol.

 

[monbla256]

There's still the problem of the "arm's length" shot. However unwieldy an iPhone in that respect, a proper camera is moreso. At least with my clumsy hands .

Also, being in college, spending some cash to be abke to take a better picture of myself seems like a...questionable investment lol.

But there's ALWAYS pics of girls Believe it or not, ladies DO like to get their picture taken and sometimes, they can take one of you ! I ALWAYS carried a camera in college, but then I was a Design major (back when B&W film and prints were cheaper )

 

[Joe Rotax]

This Stetson just arrived about a week or two ago. The colour doesn’t reproduce accurately when photographed - it’s actually a very light coffee colour and the band tones better than it looks in the picture but I was expecting the hat to be more ivory with a black and tan band. Might change out the band sometime later.

Fits really good and very comfortable - light pass of steam to true up the front of the brim and good to go pretty much out of the box. Wasn’t sure about the colour on the first day but now I like it and ivory might have been too hard to keep clean anyway so this is a good compromise as I didn’t really want black or dark brown.

I was wearing the straw cattle hat in the B&W pic below since early spring and no one, not even my wife noticed the new felt hat so I guess that's a good thing... maybe...lol

 

[randooch]

Joe, nice lid. Sometimes it's a good thing when a spouse's powers of observation don't show up.

 

[Joe Rotax]

Yeah, if she squawked I was just going to tell her that it was the same hat turned inside out for the winter...lol

 

[randooch]

Still casting about trying to figure out how to post full size pics. Here's another attempt.

I can't leave well enough alone with this Resistol; it cries out to be experimented upon.

Well, I'll be darned!

 

[bowlerman]

It begs, doesn't it, Randall? Go with the impulse-- feel good about it! Looks great in that photo.

 

[randooch]

Thanks, Jeff. Something was bugging me about the ho-hum, factory-perfect, same-ol-same-ol brim, so I thought I'd give it some attitude. Kind of akin to giving George Clooney a black eye.

By the way, I won that Pilgrim Bowler! Pics when it shows up . . .

 

[bowlerman]

Ha! I know what you mean...

YES on the Pilgrim! Good work man. Can't wait to see pics.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead uses a Stetson!

Or at least he used now that he gave his hat to his son on this episode...

 

[easportsracer13]

Here is a picture with my new Buffalo felt Stetson Seminole. I really like the short Gus crease. Sorry its dark in my office.

 

[msm007]

What do you think of the felt?

 

[easportsracer13]

What do you think of the felt?

Its very stiff. Its much rougher than beaver, twice as rough as rabbit. I cant imagine itd be easy to shape.

 

[DRB]

Here she is fellows, 7" brim. I suspect I maybe the only custom hatter doing these now.

I admire your creativity. Can you walk through a doorwell wearing that one? :eusa_clap

 

[bowlerman]

I was watching Young Guns I and II this week and it became apparent where some of my hat influence came from, though I haven't seen the movies in over a decade and had no idea back then that I'd ever be into hats at all.
Inspired by Emilio Estevez (no, not the bowler he wore in the first one) I threw a teardrop into my St. Regis. Obviously, it's not the same hat, and looking closely, Estevez must have had a few different ones, as the crease changes a little periodically. But his basic shape was a tall-ish teardrop with shallow dents and a medium-short brim that had a nice wide pencil roll evenly around it. Brown with perhaps faded black ribbon and binding. What a great hat!

My St. Regis can't quite support the crown height for a tall teardrop and the brim on this baby is way too wide, curl too tight, but I think it does the job and is wearable nonetheless.

 

[Chepstow]

fine looking hat, fits you very well bowlerman.

 

[zetwal]

I thought this was interesting. It's not the sort of hat we generally see these days. It looks rather old school by today's standards. This is an ad in Southwest Horse Trader (Jan 2012).

 

[gtdean48]

I thought this was interesting. It's not the sort of hat we generally see these days. It looks rather old school by today's standards. This is an ad in Southwest Horse Trader (Jan 2012).

Looks like the Elko style hat we discussed not too long ago. The title character in the movie Buck wears one.

 

[zetwal]

Looks like the Elko style hat we discussed not too long ago. The title character in the movie Buck wears one.

I don't know the movie ... But that makes sense.