I had Art Fawcett make me a Maltese Falcon style Bogart hat a few years back, but you need a 6" crown which you have to bash down to 4.5" and thebrim is 2 1/4 to 2 3/8 or so. Here's my post when the hat was new...
The Wall Street Journal published a pretty good article on men's hats a couple of days ago. Except for the ending (where they suggest cocking your hat is a no-no) it's pretty good. Also discusses the decline of the stingy brim...
The hat in my avatar has a wide floppy brim, but its a custom from Art Fawcett. It's based on hats that the artsey crowd wore in the 1920s. Mine isn't 3". It's more like 2.5".
I'm with you. Granite has brownish undertones and so looks good with earthtones and purple. It looks poor with blue. That's why I picked up my blue smoke jazzman.
Wow. I've been out of the country for a month and the whole site's changed. Art: Hope all's well. I wore the midnight blue version of the Stendahl (the hat in my avatar) and received many nice compliments. Even in Milan!
It's a great exhibit, especially for kids, but also for fans. They teach archeology with a combination of real archeology and tie-ins and artifacts to the movies. Great fun.
Most of the compliments I receive on my hats come from the ladies. That tells you something. When guys compliment me its usually followed by, "I wish I could pull that off." I try to convince them anyone can. Hopefully I'll succeed sometimes.
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