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Hat and Rehat

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Sharpsburg said:
I think i will list the little one in the classified section here. Just $ 5 to cover my cost and shipping. IN case anyone wants.
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I've been trying to message you, but it won't send.
I'd love to take the tiny one off your hands for my grandson. At a little under 20", I guess he wears 6 3/8. I could let him grow into it, shim it, or reblock it, get a little more brim, add a skinny ribbon, and put an airplane on the bow.
He already has a straw Open Sidewalk, but winter is on the way.
PM me, please.

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BobHufford

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Hat and Rehat said:
Let me frame this as a question.
Does this look good to anyone?

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Porch pirates?
 
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BobHufford said:
Porch pirates?
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That was sure my fear as I came upon it Northbound. My photo is looking South after I drove past, noticing more boxes on the porch, then turned into the driveway and came back on foot.
A Disney supposedly arrived on the 8th, but I don't remember seeing it. The tracking data said it was left at/on/in the mailbox, which is at the curb. Our regular carrier always puts packages on the porch. Sometimes a second carrier shows up too, later, perhaps on high volume days.
There's a woman who came one day. Unlike the guy who has the route, she didn't drive tight along the combo sidewalk/curb to pack the box. She stopped out on the street, jumped out of her little right hand drive jeep, then sprinted (well, probably not sprinted) toward the sidewalk.
Sundance, my dog, was sunning himself out near the end of the driveway. Her rush startled him and he leaped to his paws and let out a couple of barks. Startles went both ways. I was a little way up the driveway working on my Trooper and saw it all. I scolded the Kid while she sprinted (yes, sprinted) back to the jeep, claiming he chased her into the street and tried to bite her. I pointed out that he was still in the driveway. She kept ranting, even ehen my wife, who just happened to look out the front window at the right time.
She kept our mail and drove off!
I imagine that behavior is frowned at back at HQ, because by the time she got there the viscious, snarling beast chased her back tp the jeep, and did bite her. There was an actual investigation. We had to fill out forms, them be interviewed. Cliff Claven would have loved it.
We had our regular guy pay off the Postmaster and it all went away. That last sentence may not be the gospel truth, but it sounds better than what we heard, which was that she took 30 days of paid leave to recover, chained to a tree. Or something like that.
Anyway, when I read the Disney tracking report, I thought of her.
Thankfully, this incident was completely different. I had been in my shed the day before grabbing my ceramic tile tools, and found myself tripping over empty boxes. There have been a couple of times when shipping schedules seem to conspire to create a three of four day wave of multiple hat arrivals. I cringe when I'm the second one home and those hats that "just showed up" are stacked inside the door.
I've found myself, almost against my will, spiriting eBay boxes to the shed if my wife's car is home, but they're still on the porch.
No heroin addict has anything on me!
It seems I kicked a box out into the driveway, and the afternoon Colorado wind decided to play prankster. When I took it all in, I glanced up the street for Vicki's car, then hustled that box to the alley before heading to the porch for the two unmolested ones. Being soured on the shed that moment, I cut tracks for the bedroom and put them behind the bed. I opened them after dinner, but never really examined them until today.
Both look great, and they're my size. The first is a caramel colored Boater with reverse taper, a Barselona made of imported straw. The second is a Pilgrim Bowler, deluxe suede by MOREFELT. It's a semi-stiff bowler, like my Resistol.
I'll share pictures at post new hats here, but my friends will have to model rhem. Both, from different sellers, have the kind of scorched sweatbands that resemble black elastic ones which apear to be a disc with a hole smaller than your fist in the center. I'm afraid to put those on. If I sneezed it might pop right off my head 15 or 20 inches.
Lest this long story becomes a datime drama, I intend to contact the Disney seller tomorrow to ask about packaging, etc., then see if any recourse might exist.
The fact I have times of laying low made me hesitate to declare it didn't arrive.
But, alas, it is not in a shed behind a bed, or in a house with a mouse.
Perhaps on a B near a tree, but that's rank speculation.

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Ribook

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Jumping in here with a question about shopping and hat sizes. I'm sure it's been asked before, but my attempt at searching didn't lead me to anything relevant. Hats are a relatively new obsession, and as I peruse the net for sales of older hats (mostly fedoras and OR-type western dress hats), I have to wonder just how rigid I should be with the sizes I look for. I think I'm a true 7 1/4, but I've noticed with hats I've been able to put on my head that stated size often isn't the whole story. I've dabbled in stretching out a couple of hats that were a smidgen too tight (more like 7 1/8), and padded the inside of sweatbands to improve fit on a couple of hats that were a smidgen too loose (probably 7 3/8). All of which leads me to wonder, for those of you with lots of experience shopping for and buying older hats, do you target one specific size or are you willing to cast your net wider than that?
 
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Ribook said:
Jumping in here with a question about shopping and hat sizes. I'm sure it's been asked before, but my attempt at searching didn't lead me to anything relevant. Hats are a relatively new obsession, and as I peruse the net for sales of older hats (mostly fedoras and OR-type western dress hats), I have to wonder just how rigid I should be with the sizes I look for. I think I'm a true 7 1/4, but I've noticed with hats I've been able to put on my head that stated size often isn't the whole story. I've dabbled in stretching out a couple of hats that were a smidgen too tight (more like 7 1/8), and padded the inside of sweatbands to improve fit on a couple of hats that were a smidgen too loose (probably 7 3/8). All of which leads me to wonder, for those of you with lots of experience shopping for and buying older hats, do you target one specific size or are you willing to cast your net wider than that?
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Like you, I consider myself a dead on 7 1/4. For my part, at least when buying online, I stick.with that size.

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J Williams

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Ribook said:
Jumping in here with a question about shopping and hat sizes. I'm sure it's been asked before, but my attempt at searching didn't lead me to anything relevant. Hats are a relatively new obsession, and as I peruse the net for sales of older hats (mostly fedoras and OR-type western dress hats), I have to wonder just how rigid I should be with the sizes I look for. I think I'm a true 7 1/4, but I've noticed with hats I've been able to put on my head that stated size often isn't the whole story. I've dabbled in stretching out a couple of hats that were a smidgen too tight (more like 7 1/8), and padded the inside of sweatbands to improve fit on a couple of hats that were a smidgen too loose (probably 7 3/8). All of which leads me to wonder, for those of you with lots of experience shopping for and buying older hats, do you target one specific size or are you willing to cast your net wider than that?
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I think it depends on your true size. I’m in a funny position where the hats that fit me best tend to be 7 3/8 Long Ovals. Although depending on the hat can still be a bit snug. I am happy to entertain a 7 1/2 but have learned that 7 1/4 simply won’t do unless I’m going to stretch it. Which I’m not really willing to do with a nice vintage hat as it just seems selfish to me.


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Cornshucker77

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AbbaDatDeHat said:
Hey Jonesy:
Aloha and que pasa?
I saw you liked the hat tree i posted awhile back. Yes, it works very well. Mine holds 35 hats. I got it on Amazon for about $70 maybe alittle less. Lots of choices, some better than others. Def worth the $.
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Hey Bowen, the rack that Jonesy posted is the rack you have? I need to get something.
 
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Hat and Rehat said:
I've been trying to message you, but it won't send.
I'd love to take the tiny one off your hands for my grandson. At a little under 20", I guess he wears 6 3/8. I could let him grow into it, shim it, or reblock it, get a little more brim, add a skinny ribbon, and put an airplane on the bow.
He already has a straw Open Sidewalk, but winter is on the way.
PM me, please.

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I think Keith asked first. Let me check with him.
 
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