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    Cortina - Cappelli Sportivo, Italy

    Gentlemen, I found this hat a couple of weeks ago at a local thrift store, it's in very good shape for it's age. Tried to search the Lounge and the net, but couldn't find any information about this brand. I was a bit surprised by the label telling this hat was imported and...
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    Source for Goat Leather

    Gentlemen, I am in the process of having a half belt jacket made by a lady who has been working whit leather for a long time, mostly roe, deer, moose and calf. (She lives on a small island which have the densest population of roe-deer in all of Norway, and she has a deal with the farmers for...
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    Willem Barents' 400 year old hat

    The recent issue of the journal of the Norwegian National Library, NB21, has an article about the Svalbard museum, and one of the items from the museum pictured in this article is Willem Barents 400 year old felt hat! Willem Barents was the Dutch explorer who discovered Svalbard in 1597. He...
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    Breaking in an FQHH jacket

    A few days ago I got my Aero Leather FQHH jacket. And as expected, it was cardboard stiff, and practically unwearable out of the box. Even after a fair amount of hand massaging it still was so stiff that I dreaded the idea of wearing this, in all other aspects wonderful, jacket to a...
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    Musician's hats

    It seems obvious that there is a higher frequency of hat wearers among musicians than among the average population. Of my own favourite artists people like Dr. John, Van Morrison, Doug Sahm and Willy DeVille comes to mind as long time hat users, and I understand that there are a few active...

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