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  1. PalmerPirate

    Pickel Haube

    I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this, but I have limited options. The other day I was at a fantastic antique sale and I ran across a neat looking little copper pickel haube (spiked helmet.) Being as skeptical as I am, I chose not to buy it and instead spent the day researching...
  2. PalmerPirate

    How much can you stretch a hat?

    Ta-da! I have defied logic. The price was too low, I had to buy it. I did, it's here. I removed the hat band (it was hideous) and saturated the crown with steam. I quickly shoved it down on my head and played with it in a mirror. I went from a 6 7/8'' to a 7 1/8'' like I said and had no...
  3. PalmerPirate

    How much can you stretch a hat?

    I'm sure this has been posted on here before, but I wasn't about to search an enormous thread.(I know threads have been posted in a similar vain, but to my knowledge, not answering this question.) I found a fantastic little hat that fits my character as well as it is beautiful. The greatest...
  4. PalmerPirate

    WWI Aviator Look

    You know, by now I've been putting together a pretty swell WWI pilot's outfit. Anybody know where I can get that dashing green double breasted uniform that the German air force wore in the great war? It looked so nice with that front panel and all that red piping- And it looks to me that they...
  5. PalmerPirate

    WWI Aviator Look

    A quick search of the aviation section of Shorpy (you really should check that section out) yields a surprising result: http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/01485a.jpg Look at these two gentlemen in what could barely be called a cockpit, circa 1912. The chap on the left is completely...
  7. PalmerPirate

    Waht hat it's better to use with long hair?

    Come to think of it- informal clothes are just that- informal. [huh] So I guess one should wear what is comfortable. Then again, I always love being the only guy in the supermarket with a nice lid and jeans with no holes. What do I know, I'm a noobie to this forum.
  8. PalmerPirate

    Waht hat it's better to use with long hair?

    I'm interested to see where this goes- as I am a teenager who keeps his hair long enough to enjoy while he still has it- Personally, I always liked the way hair spills out the sides of a newsboy cap. I guess it depends on who the hair belongs to. For example: long haired women should wear womens...
  9. PalmerPirate

    Replacement brass buckles for Barbour jacket.

    It always bothers me when a company uses top-grade materials to make the shell of a garment- But use poor notions or furnishings. As I stated in my Red Baron thread, I just got a beautiful new DB brown leather coat that fits like a glove- real top grain leather and all- but the buttons are cheap...
  10. PalmerPirate

    Open crown, stingy brim + available

    I'm also too lazy to do most of the things I say, so who knows wher that's going. I'll probably keep the brim it already has to keep it more versatile, but that sucker's definitely going to get a crown fix by me. it shall be putty in my hands- and I'm good with putty!
  11. PalmerPirate

    The Red Baron's Coat

    I just got a coat on eBay. No pictures yet, but it's a brown double breasted leather 3/4 coat and it looks very much like a flying coat. It's definitely one of those old double breasted leather coats that were popular in the seventies, but the only thing that makes it obvious to date is the...
  13. PalmerPirate

    Open crown, stingy brim + available

    So that's how you do it, eh? I'm not too fond of the search here myself. Thanks for the advice! if I trim the brim of the Hampton, I'll be taking the bound edge off. I KNOW I saw a thread about putting a bound edge on a hat that doesn't have one... I'll go off and search for that again. 'Twill...
  14. PalmerPirate

    Open crown, stingy brim + available

    I really like the bound edge and brim of that Hampton. I'd like to class it up a bit more, so where can I find a grosgrain hat band? I know how to apply one, I just don't know where to get one. I am shameless to admit that my sudden fascination with the super-stingy brim came from watching...
  15. PalmerPirate

    Open crown, stingy brim + available

    I've heard of Art Fawcett, but I do so hate Portland (especially traveling there from my town.) The best bet seems to be the Hampton from Everything Australian, though I'll probably want to fool with the crown a little. Still open to suggestions!
  16. PalmerPirate

    Open crown, stingy brim + available

    I've been looking around for a fedora that is open crowned (I want to bash my own shape), with a very very stingy brim, and most importantly of all: available. I've found hundreds of great hats that fit my needs- super-stingy brim, high crown, wide band, and some with even an open crown- but I...
  17. PalmerPirate

    How not to look like Indiana Jones?

    I was called Indy once while wearing a black Resistol Wildcard. (a gambler-style cowboy hat!) I have found that even if you put an "Indy style" brown fedora with a high crown and all on a person who is not of the Caucasian persuasion, the "Indy Comment" almost completely evaporates. By not of...
  19. PalmerPirate

    The Red Baron's Coat

    What I may end up doing is getting something a little more versatile, like a nice Aero with a removable fur collar. Actually, I might even get it in brown (I've always looked better in brown than black) but what features are distinctive among pre-1920s leather ware? I notice buttons are pretty...
  20. PalmerPirate

    The Red Baron's Coat

    I did consider an Aero Barnstormer shawl, but one of the reason I love the Baron's jacket so much is that the fur collar lays the same way a 'normal' collar would, it doesn't just fade into the jacket the way a shawl collar would. It has the functional use of buttoning up to cover the neck and...
  21. PalmerPirate

    The Red Baron's Coat

    Thanks for the advice! Magnoli does excellent work, but alas my budget is too constrained to get a Magnoli custom (though if e'er I needed a custom, he'd be the man I'd go to.)
  22. PalmerPirate

    The Red Baron's Coat

    This is my first post on this forum, so break it to me gently if my images don't work, I'm just posting picture URLs and hoping their links work. As for introductions, hello, I am Matt and I like firearms and clothes. I thought I'd kick it off by asking if anybody has any idea as to what kind...

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