Recent content by Hats Matter

From "Le Samourai", Alain Delon. This movie was recently shown on TCM's Noir Alley with Eddie Mueller. There are many fedoras in this movie.

I keep them in the original hat boxes which are stacked up in my bedroom. The boxes are labeled.

And now for something completely different........... As I have written in this thread in years past, I have a fairly substantial number of Optimo Fedoras....19 to be precise. In the past two years or so I had a severe medical problem which resulted in a large loss of weight. The Fedoras I...

"42nd Street" is a great movie for hat lovers. I like the women's hats

Warner Baxter in"42nd Street".

I try to distinguish "need" versus "want". I have 25 hats of which 5 are straw and therefore seasonal. I need the 20 felt hats but i want more

My Rush Street fedora finally arrived today from Optimo sans feather. I added my own feather for the purpose of this photo. I may remove it later on

I would like to contribute this photo to the thread. This photo is of my Great, Great Grandfather, Ahab George Wilkinson. He was born in 1834 and died in 1922. He worked in the United States Patent Office in Washington DC as a principal examiner from the spring of 1864 until a month before...

I ordered this hat from Optimo on November 25th. It is a Rush Street in Ocean. Delivery is scheduled for December 31st.

In an effort to contribute to this forum I offer an Optimo Dearborn that I enhanced with a feather to add contrast.

It is new, the price comes from the Optimo web site and confirmed by Brady Leaf.

I just did a terrible thing. After vowing not to order any more hats, I saw this hat on Facebook, felt an irresistible impulse, and ordered it. It will probably be delivered in the new year. Posted price is $1,395

In about 2003 and on the advice of my dermatologist I purchased an Optimo fedora in Canyon Gray

Optimo has finally updated their webpage. I need to keep exploring it as the content has changed a bit. Prices seem to have increased substantially and it is not clear if they offer multiple colors per style

Yesterday I sent an e-mail to Optimo regarding the dimensions of the Austin and the Aficionado. This is the response I received. Our apologies for not having the specs on the email. We have our new website launching in the coming month but wanted to get this offering out to our insiders before...