Boater faction!

[Orgetorix]

Yes Orgetorix, I agree that's a great lid and look - I much prefer the band on your Cavanagh to the traditional red-black band of the standard boater.

Thanks. The band is the primary reason I went for that boater.

[David Conwill]

I recently stumbled across Olney brand boaters on ebay.co.uk. I'd never heard of them before, but they look like nice, substantial hats. Unlike most of the boaters today. Does anyone have one? Are they as nice as they look on the website?

http://www.olney-headwear.com/

-Dave

[Patrick Murtha]

I recently stumbled across Olney brand boaters on ebay.co.uk. I'd never heard of them before, but they look like nice, substantial hats. Unlike most of the boaters today. Does anyone have one? Are they as nice as they look on the website?

http://www.olney-headwear.com/

-Dave

Great online catalogue. They look like very nice hats.

[Woodfluter]

[QUOTE=undertaker].......Kpbreed. Where did you find those wonderful eyeglasses frames? They really set off that boater.

Dang, those look like Harold Lloyd specs! Great combo kpreed! Oh, and your sweetie and the dog are very nice accoutrements too.

[kpreed]

Thank you for the good comments. I got the glass frames a few years ago, I think on the bay, funny is the way I tend to only wear them with that hat.

[Mike1973]

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3337?size=_original

[carldelo]

That is an outstanding picture!

[GWD]

Damn, Now I need to find a Boater!

[David Conwill]

I stopped in at The Charleston Hat Man in Charleston, SC over the weekend. I ended up purchasing a Dobbs Shantung, but took the opportunity to handle a straw boater. It was made in Italy but looked and felt like stout vintage, not like the skimpy new production hats you so often see labeled "boaters." I liked it... a lot. I think if I lived in Charleston I could see myself wearing it as an every day hat. It just wouldn't feel right in Muskegon, unfortunately.

-Dave

[dhermann1]

I just won this on Ebay. Governor's Island is coming up soon, and I just couldn't resist. It sort of completes my set of all the basic types of hat: Fedora, Homburg, Newsboy cap, Panama, and finally a Boater. Oh ,yes. I also have that Pith helmet and the WW II steel Civil defense helmet. And the black felt topper. Oh, gee, that reminds me, NO BOWLER! So I guess my hat collection is still incomplete. Whatever.
I'll post pics when it arrives.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tab%3DWatching