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Berets are worth more than Felt Hats !!
Looks like those foldable pieces of wool felt can bring more $s at auction today !! John Waynes green beret worn in the movie "The Green Berets" brought $179,250.00 yesterday. :) His hat worn in Big Jake/The Cowboys and The Train Robbers brought $119,500.00 . Here's a link to some of the other... -
Gary Cooper's hat in FWTBT
The original "Indy" style of costume was introduced in the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls by Gary Cooper as evidenced by this still from the movie. I really like his hat and wonder if any of you "movie hat" folks have any idea as to who might have made it? It's the only "movie" hat that I'd... -
Akubra Bushman
We have a seperate thread for the Campdraft and the Squatter and I know there are folks who own and wear the Bushman so here's a thread for it. I know it's not "the" Akubra here on the Forum and one doesn't have to do the approved 3 month "Aussie wait" to get it but it is one of my favorite... -
For you Slouch Hat folks
Found this source of blocks for you folks who want to make an Aussie Slouch hat http://www.silhouettemilitaria.com.au/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=55 -
Danburry Ct. hat factory images
For you lovers of Mallory and other hats made in Dandurry, Ct. here's a site with some interesting pics from the 1880's up to the 1930's of the hat making that took place in Dandurry, Ct. http://www.memorylanecollection.com/danbury.cfm?PageNum_Results=1&category=6&secondary=9 -
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It's that time of year !
This is the LAST weeekend you can wear those felts :) After next Tuesday, get those Straws out and put those felts to rest in their boxes :) For us here in Texas, it's been Straw season for about all of April and May. Got to 96 here in the Metroplex ( up in the 100's in west Texas) so I wore one... -
New Hat Movie to watch for !
Just saw a trailer for the movie "the Cowboys & the Aliens" which in spite of it's VERY stretched premiss of 19th century American West visited and attacked by aliens looks to have some interesting hats for view :) -
Akubra/Stetson Open Road questions....
Do any of you OR afficianado's have any idea when Akubra started and finished making the OR under license to Stetson? And when was the Camp Draft added as a model in the Akubra line-up? Was it offered concurrent with the OR or did it replace it when they stopped making the OR under license ... -
Ft. Worth Stock Show hats
I went to the Saturday afternoon horse show and rodeo at the Southwestern Stock Show in Ft. Worth this weekend and wore my Bushman while helping my friends show their Fine Harness horse. The ONLY fedora style hats I saw were on the heads of the American Saddlebred, Tennessee Walker and Morgan... -
Anyone here have the Sydney Model of Akubra here....
.... I believe it is known as the Fedora in Australia. I have almost always had bound brims and have decided to try an unbound smaller brimmed hat for a change. ajust thought I'd get some other owners impression of it . Am going to get the Regency Fawn color from David Morgan as I don't want to... -
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Hope we can hear how our members in Queensland are doing?
I just was on the BBC site and saw what's been happening in the Queensland area down there. Hope none of our Forum members down there are washed out. If you can, let us know how it is going !- monbla256
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Here's something different....
.... for all you hat "wizards" this looks to be the place to get your hat :) http://www.talltoad.net/ -
A NZ hatter unknown to me...
... some of the members from OZ may be familiar with 'em though. Anyone here have a hat from Hills hats? http://www.hillshats.co.nz/ -
For all you Top Hat folks, something to do on one of those cold winter nights...
.... anyone game to give this a try :) http://www.ehow.com/how_4815652_top-hat-guns-n-roses.html -
For Slouch hat folks ....
.... here's a site I found that seems to sell/auction these hats both current and vintage as well as coins ! http://www.coincircuit.com/Closed_Coin_Auction/auctionmap.php?dirname=Closed_Coin_Auction&ItemType=Coin&class=Coin&sale_id=1778&country=HEADGEAR&category=AUSTRALIA&single= -
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Questian for you Australian forumers....
... tried asking on the Akubra Overload thread but no response so I will ask you folks specificaly about this hat. I've a freind in Christ Church, NZ who sent me this pic of his third Akubra that he just picked up at a church rumage sale: It seems in nice shape and says "Warwick" on the... -
Looks like the Boater was THE hat in Havana, Cuba in 1930....
... here's an interesting B&W newsreel film showing Havana in the mid 1930's. Notice all the Boaters on the heads of most of the men in it. A few felt Fedoras but mostly straw Boaters !! i did not see any Panama's :) http://www.panageos.es/videos/cubelas_3162/havana-cuba-1930s_142690.html -
Batsakes Battalion, home of Gus Miller's hats...
.... thought Gus Miller of Batsakes hats in Cincinnatti deserves a thread here :) Many of us who have purchased panama's from Panama Bob wear his work on our noggins :) For newbies here's his shop : And here's my first piece of his work, but assuradly not my last . It's my... -
This looks to be a MAJOR resource for Aussie/NZ Slouch hats ....
.... with LOTS of Akubra's :) http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/slouch_hat_+.htm -
Found an interesting site for Police/Trooper hats ....
.... not your usual Fedoras or Western hats but some interesting stuff. Check out the Police Akubra's :) http://www.trooperhats.co.uk/index.html
