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  1. Young fogey

    For sale: Cooper blue-label G1 jacket, 46R

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/183438110310 A fine jacket, just too big for me. Used but in new condition.
  2. Young fogey

    Kevin McAndrew??

    I've had a light-gray stingy-brim Kevin McAndrew for a year now and am happy with it.
  3. Young fogey

    The End of the Era ...

    Glad you asked. A friend, who remembers it well, once said in America "the Sixties" really means "in college between 1968 and 1972." Bad depictions of the Sixties have everybody becoming a hippie after JFK was shot and the Beatles visited America, in 1964. It wasn't like that all. Atlantic City...
  4. Young fogey

    The End of the Era ...

    I've been saying 1973 too. I remember that as when the Sixties finally took over Middle America; the change had been gradual since 1968. Through the mid-1960s, it was still the Era.
  5. Young fogey

    Post New Hats Here!

    Kevin McAndrew hat, found at a flea market for $2.
  7. Young fogey

    Glenbriar

    In my travels I found a perfect hat, standard early-'60s stingy brim, charcoal fur felt. The brand is new to me: Glenbriar. Can anyone inform me? Thanks.
  8. Young fogey

    Mothproofing (not storage) advice, please

    The starch didn't do the trick. Lesson learned: never use a modern lint brush on a vintage hat. Tried putting a cotton swab in vegetable oil, rolling off the excess on a paper towel, and rolling the swab on the offending faded spot. We'll see.
  9. Young fogey

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    My car.
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    Mothproofing (not storage) advice, please

    Among nine fedoras I regularly wear three gray felt ones (and one black felt one) but my favorite is a dark gray Knox still soft like new. Looks good, fits well, and keeps me warm in the winter. I feared it would be moth bait and after about eight months that seems to have happened. (I think it...
  13. Young fogey

    The School of Hard Knox

    My go-to, daily hat for a few months has been this Knox.
  14. Young fogey

    "Mad Men" on AMC (US) - (Spoilers Within)

    Ken's one of the show's only good guys. He did what he did because he can and because he's a man; as sweet as his wife is, he doesn't want her calling the shots by controlling his income. Of course I noticed Don still has his hat. Glad he didn't Sixties out like Roger eventually did. The show...
  15. Young fogey

    Charcoal gray Borsalino 7¼

    Shipping today.
  16. Young fogey

    Charcoal gray Borsalino 7¼

    Thank you! You should have your hat by the 21st and likely by the 14th.
  17. Young fogey

    Charcoal gray Borsalino 7¼

    The inside
  19. Young fogey

    Charcoal gray Borsalino 7¼

    The real thing, purple lining, "Qualità Superiore," and all. I love it but 7¼ is too big for me. Mint condition. Asking price is $65; that covers shipping. Stetson box is $5 extra. Let me know and you can pay me through my PayPal link on my blog. I can send it on the Saturday after payment...
  20. Young fogey

    What is your favorite hat crease?

    Just creased my Keens with spray-on starch, an iron on low, and a towel to protect the 50-year-old thin felt. Perfecto.
  21. Young fogey

    Keens British

    Found it today. My favorite shape and brim width. A brand I'd never heard of, Keens. Based on the wording inside ("Keens British/Felted in England"), my guess is it was made in the USA of British felt, or in Britain for export, for the middlebrow snob market. If it were trying any harder to be...
  22. Young fogey

    Priestly Clothes

    Traditional pre-Vatican II rule for Catholic priestly attire in America I am a Tridentine Mass goer and supporter. My conservative parish is run by friars, one of whom wears the saturno (thanks for the name; I'd been calling it the curé hat). I really do live halfway in the '50s. (My dream: a...
  23. Young fogey

    Civil Air Patrol

    I would have LOVED this as a kid. Sounds pretty good now. Almost went to a high school that had NJROTC but we moved away before I could start. I've been to Millville Airport and its Army Air Field museum. Wonderful stuff.

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