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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

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Happy Monday.

New to me minty 1940s teal Dobbs Game Bird.

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Great hats everyone.
And welcome back, Jim
I am teal with envy! Seriously gorgeous hat Matt!

Congrats on the wedding Knotten!
 

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Enjoying a final day with my granddaughter before she goes back to Virginia. Wearing my modern Stratoliner.

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The wedding was fantastic. Here's my son and his bride on Saturday, moments after getting hitched.

what an absolute gorgeous face ... and the kids not bad either ...

in all seriousness ... she is amazingly beautiful and you are blessed my friend ... you have a beautiful family and that to me is wealth in this world
 

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Hato – Amazing as always. Nice ensemble today.

Fruno – Welcome back! Awesome hat on you today.

Esther – We are very earth tones today. Looks good. Love the ribbon color.

David – Again, gorgeous colors on that one. Sharp!

1Mach1 – Fab. Nuff said.

Eliesti – Perfect hat for imperfect weather.

Hurricane – Ditto what I said for Eliesti.

RJR – Looks like your perfect hat.

Bob – Looking good, compadre.

Moon – I LOVE that old Dobbs. It’s a beauty.

MM – A wider brimmed Game Bird. Beautiful. The shorter brimmed ones I’m not so crazy about. Looks sharp.

My Dobbs 40 I can't take off my head.

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Thx. And not only do you have great hats your ties are soooooooooo nice.
 

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Wow, I like that! That has to be a pretty rare bird (no pun intended)!

I smell smoke . Jack are your pants on fire ? ... ;) And Anthony's comment "Fire" I remember that slang euphemism for Awesome , but some now days I have no idea what they mean . Seems the Isley Bros had a Song , or somebody : Fire . Back in the day . You've got some Great Hats Jack ! Have you ever been to Luling ? The Houston side of San Anton ? Several miles .
 

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Thanks, Anthony. I agree. Now, if only I could get the grandchildren to move closer. We have one in Virginia and three in Beijing, China. That's just plain ridiculous. :)

agree ... too far ... but my late grandmother told me when I moved from NJ to LA that heart strings are elastic and long enough to stretch around the world
 
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I smell smoke . Jack are your pants on fire ? ... ;) And Anthony's comment "Fire" I remember that slang euphemism for Awesome , but some now days I have no idea what they mean . Seems the Isley Bros had a Song , or somebody : Fire . Back in the day . You've got some Great Hats Jack ! Have you ever been to Luling ? The Houston side of San Anton ? Several miles .

Not the Isleys. The Ohio Players. From right here in Funkytown!!


Not responsible for the Helen Reddy cameo...
 

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Beautiful, Matt. Sweet color. Great brim stitching!

absolute fire Matt ...damn bro ... congrats

Woooooooow Matt !!!!

Thats a gorgeous hat !!!

Color. Brim. Finish. ...love it all

Congrats..

Sent from Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D

Hato – Amazing as always. Nice ensemble today.

MM – A wider brimmed Game Bird. Beautiful. The shorter brimmed ones I’m not so crazy about. Looks sharp.

Wow, I like that! That has to be a pretty rare bird (no pun intended)!

Wow, Matt. That's something else! The color, the brim stitching. Wow.

...and thanks.

I am teal with envy! Seriously gorgeous hat Matt!

Congrats on the wedding Knotten!

Mr. M.M.Barnes... HOW do you DO it?! Another Ultra Special lid, there!!!!!

Nice Game Bird, mmbarnes! I wonder if all the colors they come in are duck colors...I'd dig one in Mallard Green!

Thanks for all of the kind words about the Game Bird.

Sadly, it is going to have to spend some quality time on the stretcher to get it just right. It is a 7 and I need a 7 1/4. I sent it to Bob at Black Sheep, with the idea of maybe re-blocking it to upsize it. Unfortunately, I'd lose the original sweat so I got cold feet. I decided that it would be a crime to replace the original parts.

I know that a two size stretch can be a tough proposition, but with lots of patience I had good luck with my C&K homburg that came to me as a 7. So, I've got my fingers crossed.

It looks to me like they had an array of crazy Game Bird colors. While the ad below is from the thirties (while Brad Bowers believes mine to be from the forties), it looks like they had great selection. So Moe, I bet that your mallard colored one is out there waiting for you somewhere.
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