What is your next VS?

[duggap]

Not Bogart you had better hurry up or your new wife to be may put her foot down. (Congradulations by the way)

 

[Not-Bogart13]

Not Bogart you had better hurry up or your new wife to be may put her foot down. (Congradulations by the way)

Thank you duggap. Actually, we have passions of similar ilk, and she loves my hat collection. I might have to give up some buying habits, but not hats. I figure, as long as I don't develop any new high-priced "hobbies" everything should be fine! lol

 

[warmentrout]

I have to order my next work of Art as soon as I get the money in my grubby little hands or else it gets spent on frivolous things like my kids education. One must keep things in their proper perspective, I think. Anyway, my next one will be a blue smoke with matching brim ribbon , 1/4 in. wide and a midnight blue ribbon 1 3/4 in wide. Tall, straight sided crown with a bit of a reverse taper if possible. And after that one will be .....

I wonder if Art is taking notes on all of these ?

 

[KeyGrip]

I guess it would be my first, I'm thinking of a whiskey 2.5" brim, 5.5" open crown and a black ribbon with red and silver accents on the bow. Sort of a custom Akubra Sydney.

 

[univibe88]

. Black and Whiskey!

I have both. Black very easily shows lint. The Whiskey is amazing.

 

[MarkL]

Waiting for blue smoke...

I have a hat on order which is a Blue Smoke with a thinner than usual darker blue ribbon treatment.

Then I'll have to start fretting about the next color...and start saving up the pennies, too!

 

[CRH]

Hmmm.... a whiskey colored hat... Hmmm......

the philosopher crawls back into his cave and pours one over ice,

puts a scrawl inside the box and sends it off

reluctant to ever leave the cave again

without a whiskey colored hat

 

[lanceguitar]

More Blue Smoke

I had ordered a Stetson Pinnacle in black and a week later I found the Fedora Lounge. After reading that for that kind of cash I should have order one from Art or VS Custom Hats, so I did. Blue Smoke 5 1/2 crown, 2 5/8 brim , 1" ribbon and wild liner, everyday work hat, not old school, crossover. Wish I knew what I just said. Art is great to talk to even if you don't know anything about hats. The hat should be here about mid August. Oh, I do like the Pinnacle but I think I'll get more use out of Art's.

 

[Not-Bogart13]

I have both. Black very easily shows lint. The Whiskey is amazing.

I know how black is. When I was in college I tried to model myself after Ian Malcolm for a while (Jeff Goldblum's Jurassic Park character, for those who don't know). But I keep my lids boxed, and I have a good knack for fending off lint. Having bought a plain black off-the-rack last year, I have found it useful. Except that I don't trust it in the wet weather. I guess the reason I'm attracted to a black VS is that I wonder if Art and I could come up with something unusual or interesting, and also be practical.

You are right about the whiskey, though. It looks like the nicest brownish felt to come along in many moons. What to do, what to do...

 

[univibe88]

What to do, what to do...

Oh come on, that's easy...get one of each!

 

[Delthayre]

And I've long wondered how I'd look in a porkpie...

I desire at least one Artlite as the summer weather here in the northeast is probably usually suitable for light felt and I expect that I'd be happier with that than with a panama and I'm a quite happy with a panama. The only trouble is that the colors that I most want for it, blue smoke and whiskey, are not, if I rightly recall, available as Artlites. I will have to wait until at least next spring before I can even countenance that, so by then I might find an available color that suits my peculiar and exacting intentions.

I also keep wondering what the Selcouth would look like in steel grey...

 

[Not-Bogart13]

Oh come on, that's easy...get one of each!

Yep. You're probably right. It's the only cure. lol

 

[BobC]

I've been thinking about my next work of Art and staring at his felt samples for two or three weeks now off and on. I can't decide what I want next. I'd like to have a light gray, like a dove gray. I thought about silverbelly, but that might be too light. Blue smoke might be too blue. Any suggestions?

 

[Not-Bogart13]

I can't decide what I want next. I'd like to have a light gray, like a dove gray. I thought about silverbelly, but that might be too light. Blue smoke might be too blue. Any suggestions?

I've never liked the "sandiness" of Silverbelly, myself. I love the Blue Smoke, but if you don't want a blue-gray, you might not like it. The Silvermist is very light, but I had an old Miller that matched it once and I miss it dearly. It didn't fit right. It's a great light gray, cool without being blue. I could imagine it on you very easily.

 

[daizawaguy]

I had ordered a Stetson Pinnacle in black and a week later I found the Fedora Lounge. After reading that for that kind of cash I should have order one from Art or VS Custom Hats, so I did. Blue Smoke 5 1/2 crown, 2 5/8 brim , 1" ribbon and wild liner, everyday work hat, not old school, crossover. Wish I knew what I just said. Art is great to talk to even if you don't know anything about hats. The hat should be here about mid August. Oh, I do like the Pinnacle but I think I'll get more use out of Art's.

What a choice first posting, Sir, you are on your way to a fine collection...

 

[daizawaguy]

I have a Montecristi being worked on by Art now....it`s not well known that Art has a stock of Montecristi bodies....tell him what you are looking for, and he may even give you a choice...

 

[kaosharper1]

The only trouble is that the colors that I most want for it, blue smoke and whiskey, are not, if I rightly recall, available as Artlites.

I hope not. I'm expecting a lite felt Blue Smoke in August.

 

[High Pockets]

Living just a few miles off that particular highway there's no doubt; a Route 66, Blue Smoke. As soon as I can swindle,...I mean "afford" it.

 

[duggap]

I hear you, my Route 66 just arrived at the post office at 7:45 this morning. Should be delivered to my office before the day is out. Drinks on me.

 

[Delthayre]

Could be huzzah!

I hope not. I'm expecting a lite felt Blue Smoke in August.

Curious that. My point of reference is something that Mister Fawcett wrote in February, but perhaps something changed or, "going from memory," proved slightly unreliable as it sometimes does.

I look forward to seeing your hat when it comes in.