Hi,
Hmm, I like vintage hats some, but it looks like this is a vintage Fedora Lounge THREAD! lol
Anyway, I just wanted to say, Brinybay, that there are *three* Burlington Coat Factory outlets within a reasonable distance of downtown Seattle. Not just whichever one you've visited.
The best selection of decent hats (meaning, they often have Hückels and other hats made with fur felt or fur-wool blends) can be found just north of the Snohomish County line on Aurora Ave.
The downside of this place is that they plug their hats with anti-theft gizmos which leave a visible mark with a visible pinhole at the center. You'll have to work the scars over to make them disappear. Annoying to have to do it, but at least it does work. I bought a peach-colored Hückel fedora there, but have so far been too lazy to make the plug scar completely disappear.
Then there's a BCF in Auburn and one in the Tacoma area. No anti-theft plugs that I noticed at either place (yay!), but also no hats I found in my size worth buying (boo!).
As for online, there's Bencraft in Brooklyn and there's MileChai in Denver. I don't know what Hückels you can get at Bencraft. At MileChai, their very wide-brimmed black Villavacencio sells for $140. It's got a sorta-rabbinical/sorta-Lamont Cranston look about it. In some ways, it's similar to an Akubra Federation Deluxe, but with softer felt and a wider brim. I wear mine fairly often.
Actually, I wear both the Villavacencio and a Fed Deluxe, which I've hand-styled to look almost the same, fairly often. It's not likely that the huddled masses of the hatless where I work have the first clue that I've got "fraternal twin" hats.
Cheers,
Mark
Hmm, I like vintage hats some, but it looks like this is a vintage Fedora Lounge THREAD! lol
Anyway, I just wanted to say, Brinybay, that there are *three* Burlington Coat Factory outlets within a reasonable distance of downtown Seattle. Not just whichever one you've visited.
The best selection of decent hats (meaning, they often have Hückels and other hats made with fur felt or fur-wool blends) can be found just north of the Snohomish County line on Aurora Ave.
The downside of this place is that they plug their hats with anti-theft gizmos which leave a visible mark with a visible pinhole at the center. You'll have to work the scars over to make them disappear. Annoying to have to do it, but at least it does work. I bought a peach-colored Hückel fedora there, but have so far been too lazy to make the plug scar completely disappear.
Then there's a BCF in Auburn and one in the Tacoma area. No anti-theft plugs that I noticed at either place (yay!), but also no hats I found in my size worth buying (boo!).
As for online, there's Bencraft in Brooklyn and there's MileChai in Denver. I don't know what Hückels you can get at Bencraft. At MileChai, their very wide-brimmed black Villavacencio sells for $140. It's got a sorta-rabbinical/sorta-Lamont Cranston look about it. In some ways, it's similar to an Akubra Federation Deluxe, but with softer felt and a wider brim. I wear mine fairly often.
Actually, I wear both the Villavacencio and a Fed Deluxe, which I've hand-styled to look almost the same, fairly often. It's not likely that the huddled masses of the hatless where I work have the first clue that I've got "fraternal twin" hats.
Cheers,
Mark
lol
