The line between stingy brim and full brim?

gtdean48 · Sep 25, 2011

monbla256 said:
...Brims under 2 1/2" and THAT crown is just TOO tapered to be allowed on THIS Forum ....

This is a Hat section of a forum about the Golden Era & tapered crowns were not of that era. Put all the sarcasm you want into it but it won't change that fact...

RBH · Sep 25, 2011

monbla256 said:
...Brims under 2 1/2" and THAT crown is just TOO tapered to be allowed on THIS Forum ....

You guys know the drill... keep it civil.

fmw · Sep 26, 2011

scottyrocks said:
Hard to tell from that angle. Maybe a full-frontal (head) shot would be easier to see taper.

I'm just kidding, as Monbla understood. This hat doesn't have that much taper. I was chiding whoever posted the warning about posting tapered hats.

Oldsarge · Sep 26, 2011

Stingy brims are great for them as like 'em but they ain't my style none, at all.

Dinerman · Sep 26, 2011

gtdean48 said:
This is a Hat section of a forum about the Golden Era & tapered crowns were not of that era. Put all the sarcasm you want into it but it won't change that fact...

Except on the many hats of the golden era that had tapered crowns.

monbla256 · Sep 26, 2011

Dinerman said:
Except on the many hats of the golden era that had tapered crowns.

"This is a Hat section of a forum about the Golden Era & tapered crowns were not of that era. Put all the sarcasm you want into it but it won't change that fact... "

So what is it? Taper/ No Taper and just WHEN ( date wise ) is the "Golden Era" ? And if this is a Forum ONLY about that era, why do we talk about MODERN hats?

HatsEnough · Sep 26, 2011

I don't like gold hats, either. To glitzy.

Yeps · Sep 26, 2011

HatsEnough said:
I don't like gold hats, either. To glitzy.

Golden Hats are really heavy too. I would much prefer a featherweight.

Pompidou · Sep 26, 2011

The Fedora Lounge's Home Page said:
Everything from fedoras to five panel caps. If a guy doesn't have a lid, he is not worth talking about.

Seems to me, any fedora at all is worth talking about here - any hat at all, really. I'm sure if there were restrictions, they'd have been listed somewhere. My VS isn't exactly golden era stock by any means - its entire raison d'etre was to be one of a kind - and it never raised any problems. I've never seen one fedora declared off limits by the staff since I've been here, but now and then, it sounds like such was the case once. Ah well - worst that can happen is a photo/post gets deleted now and then. I'll assume any hat goes. Wouldn't be the worst thing, I guess. By the way, my VS sits at the happy medium in brim widths - 2.5 inches. Just about perfect.

gtdean48 · Sep 26, 2011

Dinerman said:
Except on the many hats of the golden era that had tapered crowns.

Post them up then....

Sam Craig · Sep 26, 2011

I count myself as incredibly blessed.

I've never had a lot of money, but I live in an area where ... with a lot ALOT of work and perseverence, I have accumulated a great collection of vintage hats.

Sadly I suffered the loss of several a few years ago, and that was, frankly, when I got involved in the Lounge. I was in the hunt again after coasting for several years.
I was again blessed and came up with several replacements including a wonderful Stratoliner, a Whippet and a Wormser ... all near new.
I was also blessed to get involved with Wichita Hat Works where several of my "old friends" have been salvaged so I can get years' of use from them still.

On the other hand, I have also gotten turned on to Akubra thanks to some of you, and that has helped to fill in the blanks.

I that process, I have come to appreciate all sorts of hats on different people. True, not everything trips my trigger, but I thought we could discuss about any sort of hat here.

I don't know when the Golden Era occurred and I don't care.

I like wide brims and narrow brims ... I don't care for the term "stingy" but if you adopt it, knock yourselves out.

One of the hats I lost was a wonderful black Knox in a soft felt that was much like the old Dobbs Hankachif feel. It was a short brim. If the brim had been 2 3/4 it would have flopped down into your eyes. I always wore it with the front up and I adored that hat. I'd always grab it if "Rocky" was on TV. It was super to toss on with a jean jacket to go to the store.
I miss it and doubt that it's spot will be filled.

I mention it because I think we should talk about hats we love here ... not just ones that happen to be popular with other posters.

I miss my old "stingy" and I just hope someone is still treating it well.

Sam

irfan.wayang · Sep 26, 2011

HatsEnough said:
I don't like gold hats, either. To glitzy.

So, you wouldn't like this one, then?

HatsEnough · Sep 26, 2011

irfan.wayang said:
So, you wouldn't like this one, then?

The HORRORS... someone stuck a disco ball on that chick's head.

Sam Craig · Sep 26, 2011

irfan.wayang said:
So, you wouldn't like this one, then?

But it's so puurty!

scottyrocks · Sep 26, 2011

fmw said:
I'm just kidding, as Monbla understood. This hat doesn't have that much taper. I was chiding whoever posted the warning about posting tapered hats.

Oh, okay, that makes sense. I guess I missed the undercurent. I didn't even realize it was happening until someone got testy.

Dinerman · Sep 26, 2011

gtdean48 said:
Post them up then....

I'll post more as I find my pictures of them.

Mid-late '30s Stetsons. Tapered blocking.

Sam Craig · Sep 26, 2011

Dinerman,

Reference my earlier post about the hat loss a few years back ... One of the ones that I was deprived of was just like your green Stetson. I used to love to wear it to Christmas events with a holly sprig in the ribbon. In daylight the heather tones really flash! Those are great hats and, they certainly were tapered ... still they were great.

Thanks for the memory,

Sam

AlterEgo · Sep 26, 2011

2 inches or less is stingy; 2.5 or more is definitely not. It's that 2.0001 to 2.4999 that starts arguments!

Funny story: I began wearing hats as a young kid but did not really learn all the terminology until I was thirty-something. When I was a college freshman, I bought a suede leather Knox at Neiman-Marcus with some money granny sent for my birthday. Rust-colored, lined, very well made, it was expensive (Needless-Mark-up) and looked it.

It had about a 1.75-inch brim, considerable crown taper, and a big, beautiful feather, so I named it my "alpine hat" because it resembled ones I'd seen mountain climbers wear in movies. (I did not yet know those were properly called "Tyroleans." Anyway, I loved that hat and wore it all the time. Very few young men wore hats in the mid-1970s, and so as soon as I got it, the only other guy on campus who wore a hat immediately introduced himself. Wearing an open-crown fur felt fedora with a 2.5- to 2.75-inch brim, at first he made some very favorable comments about my hat, then said he preferred one "not so stingy."

My response? "Stingy? Stingy?! I paid forty bucks for this hat!"

jwalls · Sep 26, 2011

irfan.wayang said:
so, you wouldn't like this one, then?

That is tooo much!!! :eeek::eeek::eeek:

mayserwegener · Sep 26, 2011

This 1930s Brüder Böhm Austrian Velour has a bunch of side to side taper which is fairly common in German and Austrian Fedora style city hats of that time period and earlier.

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