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Velour as a hat fabric - how is it? (Stetson Sovereign)
I have five Herbert Johnson velours and one Fischer. The tan/taupe/pale brown/whatever HJ hat is my "beater". I reckon it's been the equivalent of twice round the world, in three civil wars, four deserts, two - no, hang on, three - riots, it's been in a Sudanese jail and a Frankfurt cathouse... -
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Ralph Lauren
Actually, it was the nom de guerre of a column I used to write in the long-dead Punch magazine. As in "You wouldn't touch it with a..." Kind regards His Excellency the Very Rev. Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Sgn.-Lt Sir Florizel Bargepole Md PhD DD KCMG FRCO FRCOG LMIBG (Honoris Causa) -
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Ralph Lauren
Sideline on Ralph Lauren suits: Doug Hayward is my tailor in London (although he is partially retired now, for reasons of health, the business and the style continue) and once I was in the back of the shop and there were all these little wee suits hanging up, in various stages of construction... -
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How to travel with hats
Put it upside down in my suitcase. Stuff it with socks, surround it with sweater, underwear etc. Works fine for me. -
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Do you have ONE favorite?
I seem to recall it had precisely that, but the image spontaneously combusted when I accidentally leered at a nun... Here it is. Colour is tricky to reproduce exactly but this is pretty close: -
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Do you have ONE favorite?
Sort of curious sage-green Stratoliner (never seen one like it) picked up on A Popular Auction Site in the summer. Don't know what it is about it, but I love it and it's supplanted my previous favourite, a chocolate-brown Herbert Johnson velours. -
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Borsalinos in Italy?
There is indeed a Borsalino "boutique" on the Corso, up by the Hotel Russie, but the hats are very, very disappointing. You might prefer the venerable Troncarelli, at the southern end of P. Navona where it debouches into Corso Vittorio. (They do the world's best socks there, too; I am wearing a... -
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Vision of the future?-by Snrbfshn 9/28/05
When are you taking orders? Yes - I mean it. I am 53 years old and an inveterate fedora man, but, hell, I rather like this strange hat even though I am not the target market and my approval is probably the last thing the designer needs or wants. But I think it's -- well, interesting, and cool... -
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Tales of a Timelord.
Here's one: the fawn one and the dove-grey (and in the front, a Herbert Johnson black "Poet" from the 1970s, before HJ moved back to Bond Street from Old Burlington Street). Flash doesn't do it, so I'll take a couple more in the morning. As for the avatar -- just a snap someone took down in... -
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Members of the Stratoliner Society, enter here...
That would be me. And what a beauty it is. So far it has been most of the way round Britain, twice on television, twice across the Atlantic, to my Fortress of Solitude on Paxos, to Ithaka, Kephalonia, Corfu, Athens, Paris, and kept me company for 15 hours in Philadephia airport when the airlines... -
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Tales of a Timelord.
The Doctor's Hat Don't know about the others, but the burgundy-coloured velours one is Herbert Johnson, from the days when they were in Old Burlington Street. I had just been appointed to the staff of the late and intermittently lamented "Punch" magazine in around 1982/3 and bought a burgundy... -
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Tuxedo with a fedora?
English etiquette In England a dinner jacket (tuxedo, or just "black tie" as it's usually called) is informal evening wear -- in theory at any rate. A bowler is inappropriate as it's a daytime (and originally a sporting) hat. A top hat is inappropriate since it's a formal hat. A black fedora... -
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What do you use to shave?
Just Like Grandpa... ...I am a Trumper's man (even to the extent of getting my hair cut in their Curzon Street barbershop -- and any Lounge visitors to London really ought to make a pilgrimage there). Trumper's Violet shaving cream Chubby #2 Super Badger brush Ordinary three-piece...- Bargepole
- Post #108
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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New member
Welcome Squid Overlords http://store.muledesign.com/shirts/squidoverlords.php -
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Fedora material query
This is a cue for a sad tale of woe. When I first started wearing good hats, in the late Seventies, Herbert Johnson (then in Old Burlington Street) was unquestionably Hat Heaven. Since then, the quality and choice have gone into a fairly terminal decline, and never really survived their... -
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New (Vintage) Bicycles?
The Real Thing, English-style Finally got round to taking a picture of my 1955 Raleigh. Slightly odd; hadn't thought of it as "vintage" until I hit the Lounge. (Hadn't thought of myself as vintage, either, come to that; but there you go.)- Bargepole
- Post #49
- Forum: The Golden Era
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How many hats do you own?
Oops Forgot: Another Montecristi, bought in Avignon, genuine. Forgot about it because it is ON MY HEAD AS I TYPE despite the fact that I am indoors and it is raining outside. Oh, and a kangaroo-leather cycle-cap that Douglas Adams gave me because he thought he looked good in his and therefore... -
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How many hats do you own?
So it's confession time Um... 2 Stratoliners 1 Borsalino (old, good) 1 Borsalino (new, lousy) 1 Guerra 1 Montecristi (really) 1 James Lock Montecristi (no it damn' well isn't) 1 Herbet Johnson "Nassau" panama 5 Herbert Johnson velours fedorae (chocolate, fawn, grey, blue, ruby) (yes... -
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What is the average age of a hat owner
Or to put it another way :offtopic: : "If you love it, let it go. If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it." --Cynthia Heimel. -
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Felt hats in summer..
Oz again I've mentioned Australia before... hat heaven... the first thing they say when you head for the bush (a.k.a. "Outback") is: you'll need a hat, mate. Never saw a straw. Always Akubras. Every head had one. They seem to work just fine. At least, I never got sun/heatstroke. When in...
