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    20s/30s recommendations?

    simple you DO look silly in them:eek: , why? because you are not used to looking at yourself IN a hat, simple solution, find a nice hat and WEAR it, soon you will be used to the hat and it will no longer look silly but now will look NORMAL:eusa_clap there may be some hats that look better than...
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    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    that is what I thought too:eusa_clap
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    Penman Hats

    here are a couple of shots of my "Marlo" I also have 2 hats on order, a third for my son{a Rorschach} and a re-block for my daughter in law when my son and daughter in-laws hats come in we will do a photo shoot with my Marlo and their hats in the mean time it is empty hat time:eusa_doh:
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    Question: Tipping in Restaurants, for Services, ??

    the IRS employees are some of the worst tippers in general they tip in the 4% range {a study I read a while back} BUT tipped staff are expected to declare something like 15% regardless of the amount tipped unless it is on the receipt. {like diners, where you pay a register} any time I get a bill...
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    she likes them so much that when I said SHE would be getting me a dark moss hat for Christmas she did not blink an eye:eusa_clap every time I put it or the jazzman on she mentions how nice it looks, she also wants me to label the boxes so I will know which hat is which {she wants me to keep 'em...
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    How did you start wearing hats?

    as one of the few people that grew up in the 60s and actually REMEMBERS the 60s... When I was in high school I wore a straw cowboy hat while working on a ranch. my wool felt Aussie slouch hat was just too hot, and I never really had the nerve to wear the Aussie hat out in public. much...
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    you will need to ask Art, I just asked to have a hat with that style ribbon in Maroon/gray instead of Blue/maroon[huh]
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    thank you handlebar Bart, JPMcAdara, & Razzman. I will dig a tape out later, not sure of the dimensions, maybe Art will stop by and say. The hat is more gray than the pictures look, I will see if I can get a outside shade shot that is closer to the color, but the ribbon is great, dan
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    I am calling this Fedora the Pyramid of the Moon 1976! The ribbon treatment is just superlative and really adds panache to the hat. I asked Art to do a reverse ribbon of this hat and this is the result the color is a tad off in the PICTURE, the hat is gray and the ribbon is gray/maroon...
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    Irrational hatred of hats

    Just before first service at church today one of the men came up and said he loved my hat BUT he could only wear baseball caps. I spent the next ten minutes or so telling him it is only HIS perception that he looks funny in a fedora, once he starts wearing one that will go away. {my wife was...
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    If You Could Keep But Only One Of Your Lids...

    Just like James T Kirk, I would rig the Kobayashi Maru test so I would not have to choose between.... one of these the tan an Art Fawcett, the gray a Penman or the latest Art Fawcett
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

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    Post New Hats Here!

    that is MY type of raffle:eek: :D
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    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

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    Post New Hats Here!

    yes John may be a newer hatter, but he does absolute first rate work, I have 2 more on order, a Rorschach for my son and a Spirit for me. {better watch what I wear with the Spirit, with my beard and black hat etc they may thing I am Jewish:eusa_doh: }
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