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    Straw in this season

    I did *exactly that* yesterday :-P . And then went for a walk across the George Washington Bridge and back. It was mad windy, but the breeze was unable to steal my hat.
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    Anti Hat bias

    I wouldn't worry so much about the gray, unless you've actually experienced cases of mistaken identity because of it?
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    It's Not Straw!

    My latest Ebay hat arrived. I took the plunge from only wearing straw hats during the summer to being willing to bid up this gray felt fedora. Now i just need to get up the courage to actually wear it outside where people i know may see me and ask silly questions about my religious...
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    The other Jewish hat

    Thanks for pointing that out, too.
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    The F-word: was it always used for hats?

    The Oxford English Dictionary says that "fedora" is an originally U.S. word. The drama F?©dora by Victorien Sardou was from 1882. The first example they have of the term being used for a hat is only 13 years later: 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. 274/3 For ease, comfort and style, the soft...
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    The other Jewish hat

    «coughcough» The "most modern of the Orthodox Jews" are the ones who see no religious significance in wearing black fedoras or any other particular kind of hat, as long as they're covering their heads with some form of yarmulka, cap or hat.
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    Whaddaya do with yer lid while on a plane?

    i fit my two straw hats one inside the other in a hat box and gave it in with the checked luggage. there's no way i'd be comfortable enough to sleep in a hat (i find it very hard to sleep if i'm not in my pajamas, i.e. a t-shirt and shorts)
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    I Blame All Of You

    heh, good point!
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    I Blame All Of You

    beware: hippies See, the problem is that i'm ambiguous about fur. It's well, fur, and if i'm enough of a vegetarian sympathizer to not wear a coat made out of dead animals, i feel inconsistent looking at putting dead animal material on my head.
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    I Blame All Of You

    I used to just have two straw hats, one casual and one more formal. Then a certain friend (you know who you are, ahh??) pointed me here. And i started thinking, hey, maybe i should get a non-straw hat. And then i absorbed some kind of anti-contemporary bias about how real vintage hats are...
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    The Social Meanings of Hats and T-shirts

    Been there, done that... [you fill in the rest] ;-)
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    Non-Numeric Sizes

    thanks a lot, that's just what i needed!
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    Ebay #1: Nice Hat, but looks right?

    i wish. if it were, it would fit me. it's a bit smaller than that.
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    Ebay #1: Nice Hat, but looks right?

    on the inside of the sweatband there's a red 5 printed, and there's also a printed label stuck on the inside of the hat, behind the sweatband on one side, that says: A2864 BISMUTO 76-55580 4 1/2
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    Non-Numeric Sizes

    heyall, A question... If a hat is described as Small, Medium, Large, etc... what does that mean in number terms? Is there a standard? Thanks!
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    Ebay #1: Nice Hat, but looks right?

    I got another hat of the same size in my Ebay binge... you can see it in this thread. My third "Dumb Ebay Binge" hat came yesterday, it's a really nice-looking (or at least i assume once it gets back into shape) crushable gray (real gray, not like that other one) felt fedora... i just bid on...
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    EBay Mistake

    Maybe so, but i'm not interested in being a great collector; i was just looking for some more good summer straw hats :-P
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    EBay Mistake

    action shots (well not quite)... "too tall"ness. with a sad face :-( :-P the only problem is that it sort of looks okay from the side, as far as i'm concerned. ;-) but the color is a bit too dark for me.
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    EBay Mistake

    heh, fire... fire... it's this. there are two main problems with it: 1. the front of the hat is too high, no slope whatsoever. 2. it's way too dark for me. it doesn't look like the picture in real life, it's actually much more of a blackwards gray. maybe i'll put some pictures up...
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    EBay Mistake

    well, i do like fire, but i'd prefer not to waste it. the re-selling idea sounds good. this one cost 15$ altogether. i also bought something else that i'm not sure whether i'll end up wanting or not, which was a bit more due to international shipping.

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