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    photographic sizing guide needed

    Today, pondering a brim size of 2 3/8 in a custom hat, less than my usual--seems to me it would be a really good thing if a sticky were made on The Fedora Lounge that takes a standard hat through various variations in dimensions, comprising twenty photos or so. I would like to know what a 2...
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    Knox Hats for women

    I just came across this site on the Internet, looking for Knox hats. It's a company that makes women's hat styles, vintage-oriented. Alert, Caramel Smoothie! I've been wondering where the interesting women's hats were (since I don't see any out there in public). So all the vintage hat women...
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    listen up, Dos Equis

    Isn't it about time for The Most Interesting Man in the World to appear in a fedora?
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    where are the modern ladies fur felt hats

    Now I'm watching Ginger Rogers movies on TCM (The Hat Channel), because it's Ginger Rogers day. She always wears cool fur felt hats, in contrast with other vintage movie ladies. Why don't we see 2012 women wearing cool fur felt hats? They've left the field totally to the men. I think we do a...
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    how many hats are too many

    How many hats are too many? I probably have 20, might think I have enough if I get to 25 or 30. For what it's worth, I read in a Frank Sinatra biography/picture book that he had about 40 hats.
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    I want a column

    I want to see columns from some of the principal hat manufacturers (Hatco, Borsalino, and so forth) on outlook and trends in the men's hat industry. Maybe it's a blog here, or a blog elsewhere, or regular press releases. It doesn't need to be interactive. I want to hear from industry about...
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    For Greater Glory movie hats

    Wow! I just saw the movie "For Greater Glory" with Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria. I liked it a lot, despite lackluster reviews. But more to the point, it's the best hat movie I've seen in a long time. Whoever did the hats on that movie, did a great job. If you watch Andy Garcia and the other...
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    might want to trade Borsalino beaver for Stetson 100

    Although I am inept in taking and posting electronic photos, I might be inclined to make a straight-up trade of my brown Borsalino 100% beaver fedora, brim size 2 3/8, for an Open Road-style Stetson 100 or a Stetson 7x clear beaver in size 7 1/8. The Borsalino is size 7 1/8, or 57 cm, but...
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    why I like fedoras now

    Reflecting more of the talk on another thread about hats we can't stand, it occurs to me that by the 1930s to 1960s, hats were so prevalent that they were an integral part of the costume of people in many occupations. On the negative side of that, actually they were used as tools of...
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    don't manufacturers make ladies' fur felt hats anymore

    Don't manufacturers make ladies' fur felt hats anymore in something akin to fedora style? I haven't checked the retail websites for them, but I seldom if ever see them posted here. Men wearing fur felt fedoras would be encouraged by women wearing their counterpart fur felts, it seems to me. I...
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    where's the hat news

    What about a thread about "hat news" meaning hat industry news? It could be a forum for manufacturers or retailers. Here's a case in point. I spoke with the guy at Worth and Worth in New York a few months ago, and he said they were thinking of coming through Washington with samples someday...
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    Jack Vettriano art about hats

    Several years ago I came across a print of the painting linked below, "The Billy Boys," at Target. I bought it and it fed my interest in wide-brimmed hats. Later on I saw a larger size of the print that I wished I had instead. I think it's cool. Jack Vettriano has other paintings about men...
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    decoding the looks

    How do you tell whether people like your hat or not? Suppose no speaking were allowed--no one could make a positive or negative comment. How do know in that case--most of the time I would argue--what the verdict is on your hat? I think of it this way: When I see a hat on the street I think...
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    the new hat ads

    I just now noticed the hat company ads on the top line of the threads. Although I usually consider ads to be clutter, in this case I like them. Most of the people cruising this website are interested to buy hats, but where to get them is a big mystery since the 1950s or 1960s. Having myself...
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    need Wizard of Oz hat

    After seeing The Wizard of Oz yet again this weekend, it occurs to me that I need a Professor Marvel hat. He's the traveling charlatan with the crystal ball that Dorothy meets early in the movie. He wears a cool black hat with a wide brim. I wonder whether it was a standard style of the era...
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    men's dress boots

    I am a frequent contributor to Hats, but this is my first time in General. To go with my hats, now I'm fascinated to pair them up with men's dress boots. I bought a pair of formal cap toe boots from Alden Shoes here in the Washington area, like them a lot, and want to buy more. But cruising...
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    let's have dialogue with hat companies

    No doubt this idea has previously been considered and rejected at some level by The Fedora Lounge, but why not invite representatives of the hat companies to make a statement every now and then about their company's new offerings, history, observations on trends in the industry, and so on? You...
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    who invented fur felt

    Many thanks to the authors of the Winchester fur felt factory piece. So, who among the readership knows how the substance of fur felt was first discovered, stumbled upon, or invented in the first place? What a thing to think of! And who and when made a hat out of the stuff? My sketchy...
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    need help--Jimmy Stewart hat

    Jimmy Stewart wore a nice chocolate brown fedora in at least two movies that I remember--Vertigo and The Man Who Knew Too Much. He often wore it with a blue suit, which was when I saw that combination work. I would like to ask a hatmaker to make a hat similar to that one of these days, but to...
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    let's have an international poll

    I would be interested to know which countries are most represented by the Lounge. As one of the newer Lounge lizards, I don't have a clear idea. Matter of fact I was surprised to see any international people at all, thinking that nouveau hat-wearing (I mean hat wearing post-1960s) was an...

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