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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

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moehawk

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Hey all!
Early 50's Lee Silver Label on a dark damp Monday.

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Have a great day!

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Chamuco

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We visited Esther last saturday to pick up my new hat.

Here we meet our lovely host.
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We visited a beautiful neighbourhood in Antwerp
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Then drinks and a great dinner.
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The next day day we used the Antwerp museum app to take a guided tour through the city center.
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It really is a beautiful city.

Oh, and here's the hat, against the backdrop of one of our largest discount drugstores.
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And Simone, just because.
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That's a beautiful hat Serge !!! Congrats

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Celia

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Stunning Celia! Just the right amount of swoop to that brim, stylish.
Thank you Red, you are kind. Your Stetson today is a real beauty as well. I hope you have returned from the doctor's pain-free by now!

What a great hat, Celia. Classy!
Thanks :) Great tryptich of you in your Penman & new jacket!

Thank you Celia... I keep finding good stuff in my hat room. Took a while to collect them there, though ;^)
A hat room, now there's something I need, my hats are just all over the place... That Stetson plastic felt is interesting, I've never seen one of those before. Great to see the real thing next to the original advert!
 
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We visited Esther last saturday to pick up my new hat.

Here we meet our lovely host.
b868fc3b263f90e5ee1095245db1d58c.jpg


We visited a beautiful neighbourhood in Antwerp
146c1456fe769cce7360afff89125c3a.jpg


Then drinks and a great dinner.
5b881e290e796b56a2caf5cef8239b3a.jpg
42238cc40d8fc88365683cf50cf994dd.jpg


The next day day we used the Antwerp museum app to take a guided tour through the city center.
096e4ebc9a5b4a4530ac2dee93081c44.jpg
52145db0cb5297f530b876bca247c77d.jpg
7acc74bde9a28085002a3c4dd1f26845.jpg
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It really is a beautiful city.

Oh, and here's the hat, against the backdrop of one of our largest discount drugstores.
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And Simone, just because.
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Glad y'all had fun!
Great looking hats!
 
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Another interesting presentation my friend. Plastics were becoming a big thing post war, and why not put it in hats, big market there. Love the stitching, all of it, all over!

Yes, a time when plastic spelled optimism. As you can see from the content label, the plastic fiber used in this hat is Vinyon - a PVC fiber that was invented in 1939 and seems to have qualities as a binder in non-woven fabrics (i.e., felt). This plastic felt is constructed in the manner of a cloth hat. There are none of the usual Stetson labels inside - even the size label is non-standard. I've wondered if the entire manufacture was outsourced to another factory.
 
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A hat room, now there's something I need, my hats are just all over the place... That Stetson plastic felt is interesting, I've never seen one of those before. Great to see the real thing next to the original advert!

Thanks again Celia... I have seen one or two for sale over the last several years. I don't think it was much of a success and was probably ended as traditional materials became more available after the war.

We once had kids living in the hat room but they moved on as kids are wont to do. A dangerous amount of free space, but collecting hats is much more fun than AirBnb, I think. 8^)
 
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