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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

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Bob Roberts

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sorry this is better

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...please describe and identify your lovely Homburg. Thx.
 

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Today, I am test driving a hat that I bought several years ago but have had in a box for that time for reasons I will likely detail in the Homburg Nation thread.

The felt on this (what I believe to be a '40s creation) exceeds the quality of my similar vintage Vita-Felts. I have no idea which maker Julius Garfinckel & Co. contracted for their store branded hats, but whoever it was... they did one hell of a job.

Garfinkel's was a high-end department store in DC. I remember it being quite the place, even when I grew up in the area in the '80s. For a long time, it was the parent company of Brooks Brothers. And Mr. Garfinkel, was a much admired, largely solitary but very kind-hearted man. He died in 1936 and the store collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990. A link about the store and another about Mr. Garfinkel are at the end of my post.

$12.50 Julius Garfinckel & Co. homburg: View attachment 65149 View attachment 65150 View attachment 65151 View attachment 65153 View attachment 65154 View attachment 65155 View attachment 65156
http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2012/11/garfinckels-washingtons-fashion-arbiter.html?m=1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Garfinckel?wprov=sfla1

Happy Saturday!

That's one exceptional homburg! Love the color and the story! Thanks


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Spending my STRATurday at home and a little under the weather.

Wearing my 40s Premier Stratoliner and my favorite Pendleton board shirt to help me feel better!

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Hats are the best medicine. The more vintage and special, the more potent the cure! Feel better friend, and that Strat, Day-um.
 
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Between illness, snow days and spotty internet service I've not been able to keep up!

So many great lids posted by so many great FL'rs here lately. Sun is out, but it'a around 23F right now. Daughter has some martial arts classes this morning then we'll get lunch and see that Rogue One (Star Wars) movie with the Regal tickets my baby sis sent for Christmas. Happy Days!

Around the house I wear a little felt and it helps me keep the electric heaters down a bit.

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Love the pic. Where did all those leaves come from?:):confused:
 
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Thanks Daniele. You are very kind.

I am definitely going to be taking you up on your kind offer once I am in the buying market again. Right now... I am under a self-imposed moratorium. I am hopeful that my soon to be up-and-running US dollar counterfeiting business will help end the purchasing drought. [emoji6]
+1 Me too! Can you email me a few hundred? I can print them out here at home.
 
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