Recent content by tandmark

Hiya Firefyter-Emt! Some hat-wearing men detest feathers. Some feel naked without them. Some (including me) like them in some hats and not in others, or at some times and not at others. Some don't care or haven't really ever thought about it. It's not a moral issue. There are no...

Hiya folks, Most headgear I treat fairly roughly: Cheapo stingy-brims bought off eBay, anything made of wool felt, Sunbody-grade straws, the Rogue original leather, the Tilley fedora, anything bought at Burlington Coat Factory, caps, unlined berets. For the most part, I tend to baby fur...

Aloha, For what it's worth, my one and only homburg is a grey Beaver Brand, bought from Seattle's Bernie Utz store (in the '90s, if I recall correctly). Of the various brands of homburgs they stocked, this was the one that looked best on me. Not that it makes me look all that great even...

Hi, What Not-Bogart13 said: Porkpie, outback, stingy brim. Plus newsboy caps of course, as per John in Covina. And to suggest another casual go-to headgear, the Greek fisherman's cap. Those are the most generally applicable choices. Me, I often wear fedoras with work clothes, as did...

Good News for Seattle Hat Lovers! Hey folks, I thought everyone knew already, or I'd have posted this earlier. When I visited there a couple weeks ago, the clerk said they'd FINALLY been able to renew their lease at an acceptable monthly dollar amount. :eusa_clap He thought it was a...

Hello, Mick, glad you found my little post to be of some help. Have you figured out how to use the wind trolley yet? That's the button and cord contraption that's mostly hidden by the hat band. The idea is that you put the button into the buttonhole of a suit, and the cord keeps the hat...

Hiya, Sometimes I use a feather. Sometimes I don't. Depends on the look of the hat, as well as on the look I'm going for that day. Folks who instant de-feather any hat they acquire have the perfect right to do so. And I've got the perfect right to keep my opinions to myself on how...

Hi folks, I could understand it, if the plastic thingie were between the sweatband and the felt, the way most of you have suggested. It's not. It's between the sweatband and my head. The sweatband seems normal enough -- not sure why it (or my head) needs a plastic gizmo for protection...

Hi, Today, Seattle has *finally* hit 90 degrees. And so I pulled out a not-yet-worn Mexican straw Gus-style hat that I bought on sale from Dallas Hats last winter. Come to find out that this hat has a plastic sweat band protector. That is to say, a plastic sheet the exact size and shape...

Howdy, The last time I was looking at photos of hats labelled as being trilbys by online retail hat shops, what was being shown in those photos looked exactly like stingy brim fedoras. I think it's a distinction without a difference. I seem to recall a similar thread about six months ago...

Hi, When the weather outside is a bit sunnier, I'll have to post some pictures of my porkpies in actual use to add to this thread. :) For now, though, I'm just wondering if folks are aware that Buster Keaton's account of how he developed his style of porkpie is online. It doesn't look...

Ohaiyoo Kabuto-san, Your suggestion might work well in a Tokyo suburb, but might not be as successful in a southern California suburb. My guess is that, if IsabellaPrice tries to discuss the incident with those other students, that hat will be stomped on every day until IsabellaPrice...

Howdy neighbor, It's not a good thing when the spousal unit gets a mind to treat you like a gigantic Ken doll, you know. I had a girlfriend once whose daughter used to . . . . Hey, wait a minute, you're not married to the daughter of one of my former girlfriends, are you? lol Cheers...

Hiya Charlie, Welcome to the Fedora Lounge, by the way! Wearing a Real Hat doesn't have to mean you're a gangster, or an Indiana Jones wannabe, or heading for a wedding or funeral. Or for that matter a costume fetishist who also wears spats or raccoon coats and always reties their...

Hi, Shaul-Ike Cohen says, of wearing the kippah (alias yarmulke, alias skullcap): But I dunno. It's not on the Official List of Torah commandments, no. But it's been around so long, and was adopted for such a good pious reason (or two) that it's got the effect of a law binding for...