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    Stetson Vita-felt

    Attitude? I'm not the one who said "The conclusion you've presented, however, is not supported by the facts - something which has become routine in your posts. How much more CLEAR can just these few facts be? What OTHER special processes was Stetson advertising in the early 1940's? In the...
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    Stetson Vita-felt

    Well excuse the heck out of me for thinking you wanna-be experts might possibly bother doing even the slightest amount of research yourselves. I even gave you the patent number so you could read it for yourselves but NO that would be too much trouble. Your 70 year-old Vita-felt hat doesn't...
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    Stetson Vita-felt

    I found some answers... In ARALAC, INC. v. HAT CORPORATION OF AMERICA, 166 F.2d 286 (3rd Cir. 1948) ARALAC, Inc was a manufacturer of casein fiber and was trying to get two of Hat Corporation of America's patents (2,322,254 and 2,322,255) invalidated. These two patents were for a process...
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Curiosity got the best of me again.
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    Tailoring a mediorce fitting suit VS. selling it to buy a new suit?

    These used to be very common alterations included in the cost of a new suit. It shouldn't be too difficult to find a tailor who can do them.
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    Question of Stetson Quality Terms

    All you have to do is ask Stetson. What do the X's mean? "The quality of the hat body used to make a hat is the main factor that determines the X’s. In felt it is determined by the percentage of fur’s used in making the hat body. We use beaver, mink, chinchilla and other animal fur to make...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    I wear one of my ORs with the cattleman crease and the front snapped down. I started doing that because there came a point where I couldn't even justify to myself having several hats that look alike.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    Not all that many replies but from what we have the only conclusion I can draw is we cannot come up with a definition of "fedora" that would make everyone happy. BTW, #25 is long-haired felt - not any kind of straw or other vegetable material. I'm not exactly sure what #6 is but the seller...
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    Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

    I agree. At least back then we knew how to pull our pants up above our a$$es!
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    Brim smashed

    Another reason I prefer steam. Lets me do small sections at a time.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    OK. So which ones ARE FEDORAS? And WHY is it a FEDORA? Obviously this is only a very tiny sample. Feel free to select as many as you think are FEDORAS.
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    Brim smashed

    Steam and my fingers. I'm just too impatient to use water if steam will do the trick.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    I've suggested a couple of definitions so far. If it isn't important enough for you to bother reading them it isn't important enough for me to restate them.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    I just don't understand what is so hard to understand. YES, you can make a hat look any way you want but that doesn't make it a FEDORA! A date palm with leaves like a black locust would NOT BE a date palm. It would be something else and would have another name. And don't be so sure it could...
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    That would be where the term "Western Hat" becomes so valuable. A "Cowboy hat" is a hat perched on the head of a cowboy. A Western Hat could be on any head and still look the same.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    I knew someone wouldn't be able to understand. The scientific naming system for plants and animals was originated more than 100 years before anyone even suggested the idea of genetics. It was all done by visual comparison of characteristics and was quite arbitrary. Hats do indeed have...
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    That's what the "tree identification" books are for. Anyone with eyes can match the leaves and other characteristics of a particular tree to the photos in the book and come pretty close to identifying that tree. So is a hat a tree and a fedora a particular type of hat (tree)? Or is a hat a...
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    Correct! That one is listed on eBay as a Bowler hat. The antique English bowlers are very interesting. So, do we really even need a definition of "fedora" if only experts and enthusiasts will be able to understand the definition? People who ask "What is a fedora" don't know. People who...
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    I agree. The Center Dent with side dents located towards the front seems the basis from which the other creases diverge.
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    It's about time we define "fedora"

    Not all bowlers have a brim that nearly closes in on itself. Some are quite flat. Which one is the ringer?
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