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Homburg Nation
Posted previously with bad low-light pics on "Post New Hats Here", but here's a midnight blue size 7 Scott & Co homburg, in what appears to be near-new vintage condition: -
Post New Hats Here!
Hi Roan Mine sits fairly well, other than being a tad stiff around the forehead – I wonder if the stiffness of the brim might be affecting the fit ...? I'm also almost due for a haircut, which might be another factor with the fit. Alive'n'Amplified / ManofKent – thanks for the compliments! Re... -
Post New Hats Here!
My first homburg – a Scott & Co made for Saks Fifth Avenue. Advertised by the seller as being from the 1930s but the phrase "By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen" on the liner and sweatband suggests it can't be older than 1953. It was also advertised as a black homburg but I was pleasantly... -
Post New Hats Here!
Thanks m0nk. When I first snapped it up, my hunch was that it might be a Mallory as it looked just like a black version of a Mallory Ten that I own, but then it would have said "Mallory Ten" on the sweatband, silly me. The sweatband itself is black and narrow, unlike the wide brown band of my... -
Post New Hats Here!
Hi all. Only just picked up this size 7 beaver felt stingy brim from Etsy but can't identify the maker. Can anyone identify it from the liner logo? The crest contains a motto "[...] qualitas et servitium" or something to that effect, and beneath the sweatband is a yellowed label with... -
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SHOW US YOUR VINTAGE STINGYS ! (No New hats please Vintage only)
60s? beaver Churchill Ltd fedora with Cav-type edge. A bit too tapered for my liking but quite comfortable, though I might have to try raising the centre dent a notch as it noticeably flattens the hair atop my head when I wear it. -
The Bowler or Derby Hat
Check out this one -- recovered from the wreck of the Titanic. -
THE MALLORY MILE
Hi fellow loungers - just obtained this dark chocolate brown Mallory Ten. The seller believed it to be 1930s or '40s vintage, but would I be right to assume it's actually from, say, the 1950s? Crown = approx 5 1/4" uncreased Brim = 2 1/4" underwelt Ribbon width = 2" Sweatband width = 2". The... -
Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Have any loungers ever picked up one of these? Sure it's 'only' wool, but to me resembles a Lock & Co Sandown, at a wool felt price: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goodwood-Revival-Brown-Felt-Trilby-Hat-Size-56cm-/380407197972?pt=Men_s_Accessories_UK&hash=item5892093114 -
Akubra Overload
Here's Pooh kindly modelling my recently acquired '60s (?) Akubra Hampton. -
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Whoops my mistake, I had two lots of http://s embedded in the link. Thanks Manfred. Tell you what, 40-50 years really haven't done much to dent this Akubra. I've been wearing it out this week and aside from the minor damage I mentioned and that been-in-an-attic-for-half-a-century smell, it... -
Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Picked up this charcoal grey Akubra Hampton earlier in the week. The ribbon is slightly damaged (but I'm leaving it be as part of the hat's 'history'), and the sweatband needed re-stitching in a couple of spots as well as leather conditioning. Otherwise it's still in fairly decent nick. Came... -
Everyday Fellows of the Golden Era?
The photos I've posted in this other thread probably belong here then. But at any rate here's another, of my granddad around 1926. Boy do I wish this outfit still existed in the family: I don't suppose anyone could identify the location based just on the clock tower in the background? I...- region4
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Short men CAN pull off big hats!
Granddad was sent over to England in the early 1920s for his university education, and his fedora-toting companions from the first two photos (I think they may be one and the same) were over there for the same purpose. After he graduated, grandma went over to join him (the two of them then... -
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Short men CAN pull off big hats!
Oh that's grandma. She was rather short ... I can't recall her height but it was somewhere south of 5', maybe 4' 10" or 11". -
Ancestor hat pics
My grandad in his plus fours, taken in the 1920s. I think this might be Okehampton Golf Club -
Short men CAN pull off big hats!
Also, any guesses anyone as to what sort of fedoras might be represented in these photos? In the musketeers photo, for example, could the middle hat be a homburg?? -
Short men CAN pull off big hats!
Thanks for the welcome guys! I guess these and other photos from the 1920s and 1930s do help reassure shorter guys like myself that fedoras which current fashion sense might regard as being simply too large for our height/frames, were in fact the norm back when lots of people were short by... -
Short men CAN pull off big hats!
Hi all, my first post! I thought I'd share a few photos of my grandparents and their friends, taken around 1926 in England and France, as they're all wearing or carrying what look to be some rather nice BIG lids. The first shot was taken somewhere on the grounds of Hampton Court, and I'm...
