Totally agree: I simplified the whole situation. It's a shame that the hattery art in Italy drop down to almost nothing. Once I was in the Borsalino Museum and in the factory sites of some monza's hatter (the city ancient nickname was "City of hatters")...what a shame..what really a shame...
Sorry but I disagree.
- cappelleria melegari (www.cappelleriamelegari.com): nice shop, full of beauties but you have to spend almost one whole day before to find something veri specific (the clerks are the firsts that don't know the order in which hats are stocked) and here you can only find...
Nice articles.
I hope to travel in the US...sooner or later: ti would be perfect to visit again New York aiming to those "hat temple".
Unfortunly in Milan there are only 3 good hat shop but and 2 Borsalino boutique in wich you can find only Borsos, Barbisios, some Stetsons and few other things.
I'm talking about to the shellac flakes.
In a hold hatmaker's book I found that the "old school" stiffeners are mainly made of shellac dissolved in pure alchool (98% alchool) with some other "secret" different from one hat maker to another.
I believe (but I never tried it in an expensive hat)...
If it's straw you're right. If it's toquilla straw you're wrong, pardon me.
I've recently reblocked by myself a Borsalino Superfino real montecristi using steam and an old millinery C-Crown block and it was as simple as the same operation with the felts.
It's only a matter of quality of straw...
Hi all dear lungers.
You cannot know how this tread greatly emotioned me.
I'm Italian so I have a different mind whit respect to American people can consider old or vintage so I apologize if I'll do a little OT.
fedoralover...my parent's house is more than twice the age of your: my...
Long time frequenter but few words spent during many year...now I'd like to give my contribution.
Serch function, in TFL, Google or any other platform can be useful or unuseful at the same time: it requires a minum amount of training to go from teh second to the first so...it's a matter of...
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