Hat Primer

[chilidawgguy]

For those of us who are new to vintage hats and are interested in collecting them, it would be greatly useful if some of you old pros would put together a primer. What are the most desireable hats? Makers, styles, materials. What to look for when purchasing on ebay? What price ranges? As is evidenced by one of the other threads from yesterday, mistakes can be costly. What about it folks? Care to share some of your knowledge?

 

[chilidawgguy]

Gee...this idea seems to have gone over well.

 

[Tudor]

I hope that you are blessed with wearing a hat size of anything other than 7-3/8... Or, at least have the financial resources to be able to pay the prices wide brimmed hats of this size command.
Dennis

 

[Mr. 'H']

Gee...this idea seems to have gone over well.

Try reading over the older posts on the "HATS" forum. All your questions posed above will be answered.

 

[jbrown173]

This may be a job for a newbie

Maybe it'll take one of us newbies to comb through the archives and edit our own primer based on what we find, plus internet research. I'm sure the seasoned members would then be happy to correct, add, tweak, fill in the gaps as needed. I'm not necessarily volunteering, mind you, but maybe if you have more free time than I do you could get the thing rolling and others would be more motivated to jump on.

 

[Matt Deckard]

All will be answered in time.

There is alot in the threads going back a few years that I need to compile. Same with suits... Fit and brand and materials and market and era. The answers are all here, just putting them together takes time.

 

[jbrown173]

Cool. It sounds like there is a secret plan in the works.