Recent content by MrBadExample

You think? "Ours have a plastic crown and laminated cardboard brim."

http://www.felthats.com/hats_info/style.html #5

Not trying to convince him to buy anything. Just saying that there's nothing wrong with buying a hat that is within your means. I realize that that's a controversial thing to say around here.

Wearing a wool hat doesn't make you a bad person, and losing or damaging a hat should be an inconvenience, not a financial disaster.

Well, no offense intended, but that outfit really doesn't look right on you. I don't think the hat is the problem, though. Maybe tilt it a bit lower over your eyes, but it's okay. I think it's more the shirt that's doing you in there. The tucked-in short-sleeved button-down shirt, with the...

First, lad, get you some glasses that fit. The arms on those look to be about half an inch too short, which tilts the lenses and is probably distorting your vision. I'll also go against the general trend of advice and say if you can only afford a wool hat, and you like how it looks, get the...

My Banjo Paterson is much darker than what's in those pictures. Just a hair lighter than the 'Regency Fawn' on the Akubra color swatch. Pretty close to the picture of the 'chocolate' Lawson. It has conformed to my mutant long-oval skull pretty well. Akubras seem to run a little big from...

Yeah, if your wife and girlfriend agree that the hat looks good on you, you're good to go.

G Man, The Barramundi trim really does make the hat, doesn't it? It looks great. BobC, I thought I remembered someone having an experience like that. OK, I am encouraged. CRH, If the crown were taller I could have pulled it down over my ears. I think it's already shrinking up a...

The difference is about thirty Aussiebucks. That's, what, about $10, US? Not a very significant difference, anyway. Thanks, guys. I'll try wetting it tonight and see how it goes. I wore it around the house most of last night and it was comfortable enough that I kept forgetting I had it on.

Or rather, on my head. After a subjective wait of about six weeks (though the calendar, lying thing that it is, has only noted the passing of two weeks) I finally got my Akubra Banjo Paterson yesterday. I ordered it in a size 58 with some trepidation; every measurement I could come up with...

Thanks, man. I'll check 'em out.

You've got a pretty good eye. The brim measures to 2 5/8". The crown is 4 1/4" at the very front, 4 3/4" at the highest point. I think it may look taller because of the angle, and of course because the thing is sitting about an inch too high on my head (and tilted to compensate for that)...

Thanks. I think a tapered crown would help, but they seem to be a little hard to find, at least with a wide enough brim. (Much of the point is to shield my sensitive eyes from the blazing Texas sun, especially now that my son is three and dragging me outside for hours at a time on the...

I've never been much of a hat wearer as an adult, though I did wear them some as a kid. I started wearing a ball cap last summer (I know, I know), and as it rapidly became incredibly shabby I started thinking about getting a proper hat. (Who would have thought that a 'Gehuine' MLB cap that I...