Recent content by jcmjrt

Beautiful hat and a great transaction! Thanks.

Langlitz comes to mind.

I tried to PM you but your box is full. The hat arrived in good condition. It looks very nice and the felt is beautiful. Thanks.

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I used a 50/50 mixture of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water to soak my new lost worlds HH jacket and then wore it. I also wore it in the rain which was easy to do since it was rainy season when I got it and it only took a couple of wears to feel reasonably comfortable.

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The hat arrived and it's as wonderful in person as the pictures looked. Thanks. :)

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After a little research, I purchased a new four way hat stretcher. It wasn't cheap ($90?) but has a done a good job on the hats that I've used it on and I haven't gotten the long oval experience.

Thanks for the info. :)

Thanks, I'll look into Zoltan.

I got a 1940's Leather Clad brown goat skin jacket. The leather is in wonderful condition but the lining needs to be replaced. It looks like a shiny green (a little iridescent) rayon (?) material. Is there somewhere that you know that I might source material like this to bring it to as near new...

There is another good store that I know of - in San Leandro on MacArthur Blvd...for those who have an automobile (no easy BART access). It's called Top Hatters and really has a wonderful selection of hats and at very reasonable prices. Now for the fly in the ointment - the couple who run it are...

Paul's Hat shop is on Geary Blvd and I've heard that it's nice but haven't been there personally. If you get out of San Francisco (BART subway) there's a good hat shop in Oakland right at the 19th ST BART station. The store is Hat Guys and they are friendly and have a wonderful selection of...

I'm new at hats and working with them so...are you thinking that water might activate a stiffener already in the hat which steam didn't activate? I had heard that you needed steam but as I said, there's a lot that I don't know yet.