Oddest thing you've found under a hat's sweatband, vintage or new.

[danofarlington]

I purchased a nice Stetson homburg on Ebay a few years ago, and found two ticket stubs for a movie in Madison, Ohio, from February of 1938. I actually started a thread about it, which is somewhere out there in cyberspace, if you want to look for it.

That is interesting and provocative to thinking about who owned it, and what was going on at the time.

[Dan Allen]

Thirty years ago, at least around here is was not uncommon for an older gentlemen-(the ones most likely to ware a hat) to have Zig-Zag paper with them. Prince Albert rolled by hand was much cheaper than "store bought". I have found them in old clothing before.

[Wally in Cincy]

Slightly off-topic, I bought a suit at Goodwill for a Halloween outfit and found a funeral card for someone who died 15 years before. I suppose that was the last time the suit was worn.

[TipTop]

Slightly off-topic, I bought a suit at Goodwill for a Halloween outfit and found a funeral card for someone who died 15 years before. I suppose that was the last time the suit was worn.

By an attendee we presume...

[Brad Bowers]

Inside a late-'30s Cavanagh sweatband I found an early Social Security claim form with the mail-in portion already removed.





Brad

[gdc]

Thirty years ago, at least around here is was not uncommon for an older gentlemen-(the ones most likely to ware a hat) to have Zig-Zag paper with them. Prince Albert rolled by hand was much cheaper than "store bought". I have found them in old clothing before.

My grandfather has been gone thirty years. I have fond memories of him sitting on his front porch in a green metal chair, rolling his own cigarettes and enjoying life. I have the chair and one of his hats, an inexpensive western straw. Sadly, the fedoras he wore in many old pictures are long gone and nobody seems to know what happened to them.

I haven't found anything of interest in hats other than moth bites and ballpoint names on liners.

[hatflick1]

I once found the top half of a form letter of introduction (insert name) from an unemployed man who hoped to get work back during the Depression. I imagine him going door to door and handing the entire letter to the party on the stoop, while wiping his sweatband, beaded with expectation.

[Deco-Doll-1928]

I purchased a nice Stetson homburg on Ebay a few years ago, and found two ticket stubs for a movie in Madison, Ohio, from February of 1938. I actually started a thread about it, which is somewhere out there in cyberspace, if you want to look for it.

I got curious and searched for your thread. I believe I found it.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showt...ind&highlight=

[scottyrocks]

Deuteronomy 6:4-8
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads."

It's called tefillin.



There are two parts. Both look like small hats with leather bindings. One goes on your head, and the other on your left arm, bound a very specific way.

That particular prayer is the holiest one in the book.

[Walt]

I've found things people use to pad a hat that is a tad too large for them including napkins and tissue paper (the most common) to band-aids and once a piece of rope in a late 50's Gun Club Stetson. The Stetson's sweatband had an obvious curve that made it obvious something was under the leather. Didn't look too comfortable to me!