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As everyone else has said, your overall stature and face size will go a long way in determining what you should wear. Although, I would like to point out that there are too many theories. At the end of the day, you gotta go with what looks good to you. And possibly anyone close to you. Allowing...
The Search for the "Fat Cap" continues for a lot of us. Outside of the custom made stuff. I have found two somewhat generous caps lately: the Jonathan Richards County body seems to me to be a bit more generous. Nothing like what Edward and Hirohito are wearing though. Also, some random newsboy...
If the problem is between your money and their work/product, you really have no choice but to deal with them until you are satisfied. Unless you want to let them off the hook and fix their work yourself (assuming the problems are egregious enough to warrant such a thing; as others have said...
Regarding the Stacy Adam's fur-felt hats: I have seen these before in a center dent style (if I remember correctly). They are cheaply produced but are perfectly serviceable and someone would get quite a bit more traction out of one than most any wool felt hat. Nothing special, but they are not...
Felt. The kind you can buy from most arts & crafts sections/stores that come in squares for around or under a dollar a piece (unless you buy some really nice felt squares!).
You may find that a hat requiring padding now may not in a year (or may require less). Materials (sweatbands and hat...
Oh yeah, all kinds of hat materials, both expensive and inexpensive, will shrink given exposure (singly or repeated) to moisture, extremes of cool and hot, or simple time (that destroyer of all things!). We do quite a bit around here in order to preserve the size and shape of our hats and you...
I always try to go for quality leather in my straw hats.
In addition to the things mentioned above, as your sweat penetrates the cloth band and seeps in to the hat body you also run more dramatic shrinkage risks. I have massively shrunk a few straw hats over the last couple years with cloth...
Blackthorn, I can be of no real help here but I just HAD to make a comment! The only way I have ever changed the taper on any of my felt hats is through the agency of rain and lots of sweat followed by dry periods. Which is really an accident more than anything, and certainly a basically...
So true. You just want to unload your story and all of a sudden everyone and their grandmother is an English major, right?
Many people have had Baron's Odyssey's, so you are in a small but definitely recognizable group of people. As far as I know, delays and all, everyone basically gets the...
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