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Hello everyone!
Welcome, welcome! Don't be intimidated by the incredibly long threads with hundreds and sometimes thousands of pages of information and conversation, it is a welcoming community. Make searching your friend! :D- Dewhurst
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Cavanagh Club
Absolutely love the lining. Is it as white as it looks in the pictures? The felt body looks nice and clean as well. Very nice. -
Can Anyone Pull Off a Wide-brim Fedora?
As everyone else has said, your overall stature and face size will go a long way in determining what you should wear. Although, I would like to point out that there are too many theories. At the end of the day, you gotta go with what looks good to you. And possibly anyone close to you. Allowing... -
We need bigger caps
The Search for the "Fat Cap" continues for a lot of us. Outside of the custom made stuff. I have found two somewhat generous caps lately: the Jonathan Richards County body seems to me to be a bit more generous. Nothing like what Edward and Hirohito are wearing though. Also, some random newsboy... -
Vendor Problems: Could use some advice
If the problem is between your money and their work/product, you really have no choice but to deal with them until you are satisfied. Unless you want to let them off the hook and fix their work yourself (assuming the problems are egregious enough to warrant such a thing; as others have said... -
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Stacy Adams Fedoras
Regarding the Stacy Adam's fur-felt hats: I have seen these before in a center dent style (if I remember correctly). They are cheaply produced but are perfectly serviceable and someone would get quite a bit more traction out of one than most any wool felt hat. Nothing special, but they are not... -
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Padding the sweatband
Felt. The kind you can buy from most arts & crafts sections/stores that come in squares for around or under a dollar a piece (unless you buy some really nice felt squares!). You may find that a hat requiring padding now may not in a year (or may require less). Materials (sweatbands and hat... -
Hat shrinkage
Oh yeah, all kinds of hat materials, both expensive and inexpensive, will shrink given exposure (singly or repeated) to moisture, extremes of cool and hot, or simple time (that destroyer of all things!). We do quite a bit around here in order to preserve the size and shape of our hats and you... -
Panama Hat. Leather or cloth sweatband.
I always try to go for quality leather in my straw hats. In addition to the things mentioned above, as your sweat penetrates the cloth band and seeps in to the hat body you also run more dramatic shrinkage risks. I have massively shrunk a few straw hats over the last couple years with cloth... -
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So, I got me this Fez see.....
Very cool idea! I can't help one bit on the whole placing of this hat in history thing. Sorry. -
how to get rid of reverse taper on my Squatter?
Blackthorn, I can be of no real help here but I just HAD to make a comment! The only way I have ever changed the taper on any of my felt hats is through the agency of rain and lots of sweat followed by dry periods. Which is really an accident more than anything, and certainly a basically... -
Stingy Brim Day at Buckaroo Hatters
Gasp... I just don't see how people can live with so little brim in their lives. Honestly! You need to sort yourselves out! -
Quest for the Baron's Kolchak hat....
So true. You just want to unload your story and all of a sudden everyone and their grandmother is an English major, right? Many people have had Baron's Odyssey's, so you are in a small but definitely recognizable group of people. As far as I know, delays and all, everyone basically gets the... -
Second Hat
As usual, it should be pointed out that Loungers hardly represent "most". The few, the proud... or whatever. -
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CANADIAN STETSON by BILTMORE?
Oh yeah, companies contract work all the time. A Biltmore made by Stetson or a Stetson made by Biltmore would be a great hat, either way you slice it. -
Do you say Goodbye on the 'phone?
Just in the movies. (Ahh, the pitfalls of consuming culture through a restricted fictional lens!) I say "Goodbye" almost never. Usually it is "Love you, bye!", or "Later!" or "Take it easy!" or SOMETHING to end the conversation (depending on who is on the other end of the line.)- Dewhurst
- Post #58
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Cricket - willow and leather
I don't take in a lot of Cricket but I can admit this: I LOVE TEST MATCH SPECIAL! That has to be the single best sports related radio program in the world. Fascinating and fun.- Dewhurst
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Berets, Anyone?
Daan, I'm extremely attracted to those sweatbands in those two berets for some odd reason. I NEED to purchase a new beret and your posts remind me of that. -
Grades of Stetson dress hats/felt?
I'm afraid I cannot answer your question in it's entirety but I can tell you this much: Royal quality is a low grade fur felt, the finishings are lower quality but durable. These are their low grade (think budget) fur felt dress models. Sovereign quality is a higher grade fur felt body...
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