You Don't Wear Dirty Socks. Why Would You Wear A Dirty Hat?!?

Clean A Hat is now an official member of The Fedora Lounge! We are a full service hat cleaning company located just south of Memphis, TN (Olive Branch, MS) but will ship anywhere in the U.S and Overseas.
We specialize in, you guessed it... Hat Cleaning, Blocking, Restoration, Refurbishing, Resizing, Stretching, Crown Reconstruction, Brim Cutting, Straw Hat Cleaning & Refinishing, as well as, Liner, Hatband, and Sweatband Installation. Check us out on the web at www.cleanahat.com for more info, pics, prices, commercials, testimonials, etc. I have aquired several loyal customers from this forum thanks to other satisfied members and friends in the hat business. I look forward to building sereval more relationships in the years to come. Make Your Old Hat Look Like New Today! Felt, Leather, or Straw, Clean A Hat Does It All!!

Let me share my success story

I wanted to tell you a success story. I have a Mallory 15 that I have had for 27 odd years now.


It was my first real Fedora and I wear it all the time.
So Last fall I went to get my hat out of the closet where I keep my hats and found this on the brim.

So I tried Scout's cleaner. Didn't work.
Sent off to one hatter no luck getting the spots out.
So I tried another hatter no luck with the spots.
In the mean time I had an old Open Road style hat that needed to be rebuilt for a daily wear hat and I sent it off to Drew of Clean A Hat he did a great job adjusted the size of the hat to fit my head and sewed in a new sweatband and a Stetson Liner as it was he found out in the rebuild an old Open Road placed it in a Stetson hat box and sent it back to me.
So with that great job I asked Drew if he was up to a challenge I told him my the tale of my Mallory spot problem and he said sent it to me and let me have a try.
So this Thursday afternoon while dealing with my house being broken into and
TV's and computers being stolen. What should arrive but this box.

So after everything calmed down I opened the box to find the following.


As you can see the spots are now gone.



Drew even put a feather in my hat band.



So now I can wear my Mallory 15 again and it looks like a brand new hat.



Thanks so much Drew you did a fabulous job on both of my hats that need a lot of work. You are great to work with an a gentleman and will work with someone would really needed a true hat cleaning craftsman work on their hats.

Drew replaced a ribbon on an Akubra Federation 4 for me & 2 sweatbands in vintage Resistol = Excellent jobs all of them. I will use Clean A Hat again for sure.

Looks nice, Ed. Any idea what made the spots?

I wish I knew. I just pulled it down to wear last fall and there they where. Made me sick as this was my first vintage hat. I now have way more protection for my hats. I am so happy that Drew was able to take care of it. After talking to several hatters who tried this was not an easy stain to remove. I think there may have been paint involed as we hat moved from an older home to a newer patio home between wearings. The old 40's home paint may have gotten on the hat during a water leak possibly. Thats my only idea.

I think I'll let these guys take a crack at my very dilapidated Dobbs Gay Prince. It needs everything.
BTW, their website needs a little cleaning up at the moment.

Call drew up an talk to him. That's what I did.
He likes to work on cleaning hats like mine. It
Makes it easy to learn from. I had him do an old
Open Road that he replaced everything even put back
a brown stetson liner in it made it like new.
It's my wear to work hat now. Since I work at a industrial
Bakery the Mallory hats stay at home.

D'oh!

I have a couple of fur felts in need of news sweats I keep meaning to send to you from here in Knoxvegas. Glad to hear good reports. Nice to have another regional hatter. I am capable of some things, but often my reach exceeds my grasp. See below. :eusa_doh:

Once looked like:


Now looks like... (does "pulled wrong way through a mule" resonate with anyone?)








Not this one, but others headed your' way... soon.

The Wiser Hatter said:

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Nice hat... have you tried getting in touch with clean-a-mirror?

Sure have.