Recent content by LetterJ

I was wary of anything steam/water related given the cheap nature of the hat. As I'm going to the hardware store anyway tonight, I'll look for a "shim" to make it fit better.

OK. The hat arrived last night and looks good. The only problem is that it sits loose on my head. My felt hats did this too when they were new, but being more flexible than the Panama, they just sort of changed shape to fit my head after a couple of days. I'm wondering what I can do to get...

I just got an order of old magazines from a seller on Ebay: 2 "Time" issues from 1938 and a Canadian Newsweek from 1945. I'm having a blast reading the articles, but the ads are really catching my attention. My favorite ad so far is a full 2 page layout advertising the newly patented and...

Thanks for the link. I ended up ordering a Dobbs "Capri" in natural from MikeTheHatter.com. His site doesn't show it in natural, but this is what it looks like. It was one of very few that could be ordered in real sizes. I've had some issues with the S/M/L/XL/XXL type of sizing for hats...

After wearing felt this weekend with the temps in the low 50's and being close to uncomfortable, I think I'm going to go with the Panama for my trip. After a discussion with Panama Bob, it doesn't look like I could get one of his wonderful hats in time. So, I'm going to get a cheap Panama for...

I thought I'd also point out that some of the resources for web design can also help in choosing clothing colors. I've occasionally used this site to get an idea for colors. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

What's funny is that we've gone from -30F to +50F in the last 2 weeks here, thus messing up my calibration pretty heavily. Yesterday it was 49F and I drove most of the way home with the truck window open and my overcoat in the passenger seat. We're pretty used to temperature swings (Minnesota...

I'll be in Savannah, GA from Feb 18-22 and am trying to figure out what I need as my "hat solution". I don't think I'll be able to go hatless for 4 days. I only have fur felt hats at the moment since I live in Minnesota and have only been wearing hats since October or so. I've been planning...

I look at most of my wardrobe as on a warm--cool spectrum. Blues, blue-based greys, etc. are on the cool end along with black and neutral greys. Browns, tans, red, etc. are on the warm end. Greens can fall on either side (though I usually put them more on the warm). Greys can be tricky because...

Exactly. Whenever I talk about using MySuitShop, people keep wanting to compare directly to the $3000 suit shops, which is really odd. I've been comparing them to Men's Wearhouse and Jos A Banks as that's where their prices are and they blow them away for quality.

On the bus, I've found out that I'm both the "guy in a suit" and the "guy in a hat" along with being the "big guy who works with computers". What's that they say about no such thing as bad publicity?

I've been wearing a hat pretty much every day for the last 3 months. The push to do so came partly from a change in dresscode (from business casual to jacket or tie every day) and the fact that a 10 minute walk (straight into a north wind) to the bus and another 5 minutes waiting in Minnesota...

The cutaway is also known in my house as the style that can make my 19 inch neck look like it's closer to 25 inches.

There are, indeed, a *ton* of pictures in there. There are something like 50,000 just for photographs from 1930 to 1950. That's a nice list of favorites. I think I'm going to have to go and find the DAR marker as I think I know where it is (it may be gone for all I know, but I can still go...

I know that often people on this forum ask where to get period photographs for reference. I was in the bookstore tonight looking at a book about crime in Minnesota in the 20s and 30s (we had a pretty active bootleg community here then) and noticed one of the books referenced that most of the...