Hello! After seems to be a many, many years, I've finally decided to say screw it and finally bite the bullet and look into snagging my first nice hat. The biggest problem has always been fore me is the lack of any good nearby hat(eries? ), from from anything in the town I'm living in, and even driving 3 hours into the city seems to only provide places that seem more interested in selling you 'caps with the stickers still on them. Terrible!
So, last two-ish week's have been bunches of fun research time, brands, terminology, figuring out what the heck is a stingy brim, how to figure sizing, and so on and so on. Even so, I still feel uncomfortable in my knowledge!
I do hope to snag a couple hats down the road, I refuse to live life without have owned at least 1 nice derby, but none the less the first hat I'm looking to snag is a fedora. I've been eyeing the Federation Deluxe IV, Akubra Bogart (though I don't really want a black fedora, they grey looks pretty nice but pretty much seems impossible to find!), absolutely loving what I see from Black Sheep Hat Work, and while his work is something I could afford, I don't exactly feel comfortable getting something done up with my lack of hat knowledge. Is there any other brands I maybe should keep an eye out for to start with?
I guess my biggest worry is that I'll snag one and find out it just doesn't work for my build.
So, last two-ish week's have been bunches of fun research time, brands, terminology, figuring out what the heck is a stingy brim, how to figure sizing, and so on and so on. Even so, I still feel uncomfortable in my knowledge!
I do hope to snag a couple hats down the road, I refuse to live life without have owned at least 1 nice derby, but none the less the first hat I'm looking to snag is a fedora. I've been eyeing the Federation Deluxe IV, Akubra Bogart (though I don't really want a black fedora, they grey looks pretty nice but pretty much seems impossible to find!), absolutely loving what I see from Black Sheep Hat Work, and while his work is something I could afford, I don't exactly feel comfortable getting something done up with my lack of hat knowledge. Is there any other brands I maybe should keep an eye out for to start with?
I guess my biggest worry is that I'll snag one and find out it just doesn't work for my build.