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    Clean grease from my Akubra

    Corn starch, eh? I'll try that, too. Earlier I squeezed a blob of Purelle onto one of the smudges, scratched at it with my fingernail, and wiped it up before it all evaporated. It was a little better, so I repeated the experiment and this time I rubbed a bit at the stain. A lot of it came up...
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    Clean grease from my Akubra

    Hey, could I use Purelle? It's all alcohol, so if I dabbed some on and blotted right away it might work. I seem to recall it being suggested as the way to get pine sap off when bringing in the Christmas tree.
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    Clean grease from my Akubra

    I have an Akubra Cattleman, and I love it. Yay! I somehow got grease on my coat the other day, and then on my hat (when I tucked it under my arm while inside a store). Boo! The same grease came off my Columbia (nylon?) jacket after I tried Woolite (useless), OxyClean (more useless-er), and...
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    David Morgan style chin straps

    Last weekend it was really windy and I didn't want my Akubra Cattleman to blow away while I watched my daughter's soccer game. So I threaded a length of thin, elastic shock cord around the back of the hat, in through those holes above the hat ribbon, and then down beneath the sweatband through...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Not a comment as such but... A couple of weeks ago, I was waiting to cross the street near work (Johnson & Wales Unversiy in Providence, RI). Another young man -- early 30s, perhaps -- who always wears a suit approached on the sidewalk. That day he was wearing a nice straw hat, and I had on my...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Wow, that's sharp. Is the Akubra Camptown a faithful reproduction of this hat, or just a borrowing of the name? - Will
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    Slowly moving away from vintage and on to Akubra exclusively.

    David, what hat are you wearing in your avatar photo? Just curious.... - Will
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    "Take your hats off, you are indoors".

    *golfclap* Well done, sir! As an administrative employee (IT) at a small New England [though with a Miami campus!] college, I am seriously apalled at the way students today dress. I wear a fedora to work about one day a week (and my big ol' Akubra the other days) and it gives me great joy to...
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    The Long Oval Unfortunate's Club

    Are modern "production" - that is, not bespoke -- hats available in Long Oval? I just bought my first good hat, an Akubra, and I didn't think I could get it in LO (and I ended up with the felt strips they sent along folded double just to keep the wind out from the sides of my melon!). Come to...
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    A funny cartoon about hats

    Last night I headed off for a walk after dinner and grabbed my hat. My dear wife (quite carefully!) said, "I don't think it's very sunny out now." So I just looked right at her and said, "I like my hat." An hour earlier a friend of ours had told me that she liked my hat, and so I think my...
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    Do you wear hats because you're balding?

    Solely because I'm balding? Well...my thinning hair certainly accentuated the cancer danger that I played up when I told my wfe about it before I bought my new hat. Is that cynical? :7) - Will
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    About my hat? Strained tolerance, I think. But my birthday is coming up so I get a bit of a pass. Also, last summer I switched from disposables & canned goo to shaving with a DE "safety" razor and nice creams & hard soaps. By winter she was convinced enough of my seriousness that I got a...
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    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    Mojave Jack, you could consider posting any questions -- specific or general -- to the WWII list at iBiblio, whose readership is very well-informed. In fact, former U.S.M.C chief historian Ben Frank was a subscriber until his much-lamented death a couple of months ago, and I think we still...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    Well, the Cattleman has a flat brim that tilts down both in front and back, and a small (in my opinion) pinch at the front. Here's one view, showing the crown's shape: Here's the side view showing how I wear it tipped back, and how the brim drops: Sorry about looking kind of sloppy: I mowed...
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    Hat manners?

    I've been trying to remember my hat manners: for example I will take it off indoors, but what about when driving a car? (Yes, I was amazed to disciover that I could wear the new cattleman while driving my Camry!) I'm not the only one thinking about it. I found a piece from a Bangor, ME...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    You're very kind, sir. I wear khakis and a dress shirt to work myself, so it's OK. Too western? Well here in downtown Providence, RI, I may as well have been leading a horse by the bridle. :7) That's really why I am considering the fedora -- but it too would be pretty outlandish here...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    OK, I wore it around the house a while last night, and actually wore it to work today. (I can't recall wearing a hat in public ever before that wasn't a baseball hat, so this was a bit of a leap for me.) I wore the hat while out getting lunch, and either I am getting used to it or it to me --...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    Thank you -- that makes me feel better about the "risk" of wearing it. Doc, I like it. I think my wife doesn't, but she kept her eyes un-rolled all last night since it arrived. :7) The brim is, indeed, quite broad -- but that's why I picked it: I want the thing to provide a cafe table...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    See, that sounds like me, too -- but the hat is loose that way, and only holds tight when I tilt the back up & the front down to where the brim is pretty much perfectly level. You know -- where they told me to measure it! But (waaa!) I don't want to to wear it level, I want it tilted back a...
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    Too Small?? Too big? Just right? or How to wear a hat!

    I got my first hat yesterday, an Akubra Cattleman, and I'm not sure it's the correct size -- oris it just the way I wear it? So just how snug should the hat fit? Should it feel loose if I shake my head? If I walk briskly across the room, should I feel it shifting? Or is it a matter of wearing...

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