Grades of Stetson dress hats/felt?

[Redfokker]

So they are back to using "Excellent"?!? Didn't that go away for a season or two.

 

[Fivesense]

In my "new to fedora" understanding, they might as well just go with "Pinnacle" or "Beaver."

 

[jlee562]

Pinnacle was a model name, but it looks like it's been dropped from the 2018 dress line.

http://www.hat-co.com/perch//resources/f18-stetson-city.pdf

 

[Frunobulax]

So they are back to using "Excellent"?!? Didn't that go away for a season or two.

Excellent was re-introduced with the Excellent Strats, then expanded to a couple of others. The Excellent Strats were discontinued, but they kept the designation. They've had Excellent Temples for a couple of years now.


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[RJR]

In my "new to fedora" understanding, they might as well just go with "Pinnacle" or "Beaver."

I believe that the Pinnacle was 100% beaver.This is an older one.

 

[Redfokker]

Excellent was re-introduced with the Excellent Strats, then expanded to a couple of others. The Excellent Strats were discontinued, but they kept the designation. They've had Excellent Temples for a couple of years now.


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[Frunobulax]

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LOL. Be excellent to each other!


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[chuck12]

The Imperial designation isn't used in the 2018 catalogue, but theoretically it should be of higher quality than Royal Deluxe, as Anthony stated.

The current Hatco quality scale for dress hats is delineated in the catalogue thusly:
Excellent
Royal Deluxe
Royal
Medalist
Wool

I have acquired medalist hat and am trying to find out when it was made or how old it is. Can anyone help me with this. It looks vintage.

 

[moontheloon]

I have acquired medalist hat and am trying to find out when it was made or how old it is. Can anyone help me with this. It looks vintage.

impossible without photos

 

[chuck12]

impossible without photos

I tried to upload the photos but they were too big for the server to process. Is there another way to get a photo to you

 

[moontheloon]

I tried to upload the photos but they were too big for the server to process. Is there another way to get a photo to you

if I'm not mistaken you need to have a certain number of posts before uploading photos is allowed

 

[Frunobulax]

I tried to upload the photos but they were too big for the server to process. Is there another way to get a photo to you

You'll have to find a way to downsize the file sizes. If you use MS PowerPoint, you can draw them into a slide, resize and save the photos. Not sure of other ways.


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