Recent content by Sator

I just wanted to let interested ladies know that my new forum, The Cutter and Tailor, also includes discussions of ladies' tailored fashions. I know that there are some very capable sewers amongst you here. Some of you will know some of the posters at the new forum such as Claire Shaeffer, who...

Thank you for your advice, Matt. However, as I am located in Australia, I would prefer to try to stick to local hatmakers. I am a physician by profession and have no plans to give that up to sell hats. The suggestion for a forum hat was always just that - a suggestion. If you ever...

I am used to working with Steve. There seems to be this feeling that the project is highly likely to end in disappointment and that I would be blamed for it and it would cause much ill feeling. This sort of thing makes it very difficult for me. Plus I got this feeling that people suspected I...

Whatever the case, a hat with major forum involvement is off, as it is far too politically complex. I would not entirely rule out the possibility that I might in future consider something like recreating the Stetson Whippet - perhaps even with Steve/Nungar. With the permission of the...

I didn't mind putting in the time. I thought it would be fun to custom order an Akubra hat. However, I think all of the profound mistrust being directed to myself and Steve really has so far taken all of the fun out of it. I think I will simply call this project off.

The trouble is that Steve is a part time seller. He is a full time farmer and will tell you he knows nothing about hats. There is a terrible drought in New South Wales and he has taken to selling Australiana on-line to alleviate things. I have repeatedly tried to get Steve to participate in...

Gentlemen, it is indeed a great pity this thread has worked out the way it has. I am not a "middle man", I am someone wanting to be able order a great hat for myself. I have no interest in this beyond that as I am physician by profession and not a hat vendor. I know someone willing to custom...

[EDIT: I am really not sure what part of "Please put on hold for a few days" you're just not getting. Thanks,HJ]

Special Order Hat I have been a bit busy and have been meaning to come back to this project. Steve of Nungar is willing to order the hat for us as soon as we can decide on the specifications. The trouble is that my knowledge of hats leaves much to be desired and I need a lot of guidance from...

The leading candidates I just read through this thread again and here are the leading candidates: 1. A recreation of the Whippet (the most popular proposal by far) 2. A modern update of the Stratoliner 3. A reproduction of the fedora on the FL logo If we can come up with some good final...

Thanks MK. I understand the situation and will respectfully avoid any suggestion that this project is an official FL project. I hope you don't mind if we still use this excellent forum to (re)create a hat that many would be proud to own. I would like it to be a Nungar exclusive hat as I think...

OK guys, it's great to see all of this interest. Irrespective of whether this project ends up being an 'official' FL thing or just a group of forumites getting together to recreate a classic fedora design, we are on to a winner. In the latter case we can just give the hat a name of our own...

So where is this civil war, bloodbath and descent into total chaos which was predicted lol? I need a bit more guidance. In terms of the technical specifications (apart from the design of the hat eg crown height etc which we can work out in due course): 1. Heritage Quality 2. Colours such as...

This is already sounding promising (and so far quite bloodless). Then again I will be guided by you gentlemen as to the ultimate choice. If others come up with good ideas I would put it up for a vote. It is still early days, and hopefully more people will chip in with opinions soon.

That too can be arranged. In fact I already have put together a Forum Special boot: http://styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=21179