Recent content by colhat

My first attempt at posting an image in this forum.

Thanks. One correction, I mentioned I had the International. After double checking, it was the Chicago. Where does one obtain a hat stretcher?

Thanks for your reply. You might be right about the hat having to conform to my head shape. Still waiting for the weather here to cool off (I was advised not to wear a felt hat in the heat of Summer). As a result, the hat has not been worn much (Maybe for 15min to 30min at a time). I have...

Thanks for your reply. Locally, the only hat shop is Goorin Bros. Being a strictly retail shop, it is difficult to find the same salesperson from one week to the next. I have been working over the phone, emails, and video chatting with a shop in Chicago.

Thanks for your response. Since I am pretty much a noob at hats, the odds of me going and steaming a hat are none to zero. :) I will try to place a spacer of some sort at the sides and see how it works out. I figure risks are small, benefits might be good/great. The hat I purchased is made...

Thank you all for your responses. Before continuing I should clarify my hat purchase. Even though the flat caps I purchased were from a local retail store, the felt fedora was purchased online from a different vendor. It was a leap of faith on my part. Let me now describe how the hat fits...

Hello All: Hopefully I am posting in the correct forum. I have searched high and low for a "introduce yourself" thread with no luck. So please mods, if you need to move my thread to proper place, do so. Safe to say I got the hat bug. Started when I visited a local Goorin Bros shop (where...