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Borsalino hats now mostly run a half size smaller than most other manufacturers.

Hi Art, Its Steven (besdor) from Bencraft Hats. I just sent you an email on your website. I'm sorry to hear the news .

Most of his hats are in fact Borsalino hats. We sent the prodction company for the show a hat or two. From what I'm told, Mr Spader is very specific with his hat reqiurements. I'm sure Optimo Hats has done some work for him.

I am happy that the truth is now coming out about what Camperio and Moccia were trying to do to the company. They were working together to devalueate the company in order to be able to control it onceagain at a fraction of its value. They were also preventing other potential buyers from trying...

Maybe I should take pictures as well......

They are very addicting to collect because they take up less room!!!!!

I am happy to see that at least one hat factory is coming back. The Borrione family owned the Cervo factory before it was taken over by the Rommiti group. Now we have to wait and see what happenes with Borsalino .

In those years Borsalino had almost 3000 workers in the factory. Thats a lot of wages to pay!!!

I think that pre WW2 , the variety of colors that were worn were not as varied as the selection that Borsalino showed after the war. There were more offerings of colors as time went by. Today the variety of colors that the company make is vast but the quality is not what it was.

The owner of the store in Florida is the owner of the factory . It is his familys business .

That hat would equate to a size 55 USA 6 7/8 .

While I dont think the factory will close , the present ownership has actualy hurt the company quite a lot. Since the present CEO has taken over , the number of stores that have sold Borsalino hats in Europe and the USA have gone down especialy in the USA. The new ownership is preferring to...

Multo bene' !!

If the Borsalino family still owned the company , they wouldnt be in the bad mess that they are in now!!

Questa multo bene ! Where did you find that?