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https://www.ebay.com/itm/183438110310 A fine jacket, just too big for me. Used but in new condition.

I've had a light-gray stingy-brim Kevin McAndrew for a year now and am happy with it.

Glad you asked. A friend, who remembers it well, once said in America "the Sixties" really means "in college between 1968 and 1972." Bad depictions of the Sixties have everybody becoming a hippie after JFK was shot and the Beatles visited America, in 1964. It wasn't like that all. Atlantic City...

I've been saying 1973 too. I remember that as when the Sixties finally took over Middle America; the change had been gradual since 1968. Through the mid-1960s, it was still the Era.

Kevin McAndrew hat, found at a flea market for $2.

In my travels I found a perfect hat, standard early-'60s stingy brim, charcoal fur felt. The brand is new to me: Glenbriar. Can anyone inform me? Thanks.

The starch didn't do the trick. Lesson learned: never use a modern lint brush on a vintage hat. Tried putting a cotton swab in vegetable oil, rolling off the excess on a paper towel, and rolling the swab on the offending faded spot. We'll see.

My car.

Among nine fedoras I regularly wear three gray felt ones (and one black felt one) but my favorite is a dark gray Knox still soft like new. Looks good, fits well, and keeps me warm in the winter. I feared it would be moth bait and after about eight months that seems to have happened. (I think it...

My go-to, daily hat for a few months has been this Knox.

Ken's one of the show's only good guys. He did what he did because he can and because he's a man; as sweet as his wife is, he doesn't want her calling the shots by controlling his income. Of course I noticed Don still has his hat. Glad he didn't Sixties out like Roger eventually did. The show...

Shipping today.

Thank you! You should have your hat by the 21st and likely by the 14th.

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