Tony in Tarzana
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From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic...
From Saigon we move to another interesting location wrapped up in the Cold War. These two Borsalino Homburgs, black and grey, came with (I'm hoping, anyway) their original boxes.
Perhaps a diplomat in the formerly sovreign port city of Trieste wanted a pair of dignified Homburgs to go with his various outfits? In any event, they appear to be exactly the same age and the same size, but the grey one seems to have been worn more often. It also had strips of cork (of all things) stuffed behind the sweatband, indicating perhaps that the gentleman wore the hat into his later years.
I wonder if a Lounger with a medical background could explain the physiology of the scalp, and perhaps explain why old fellows stuff newspaper and such into the sweatbands of their old hats, which one would assume fit correctly when first purchased?
Anyway, here are some pictures. Perhaps the Borsalino daters can have a go?
From Saigon we move to another interesting location wrapped up in the Cold War. These two Borsalino Homburgs, black and grey, came with (I'm hoping, anyway) their original boxes.
Perhaps a diplomat in the formerly sovreign port city of Trieste wanted a pair of dignified Homburgs to go with his various outfits? In any event, they appear to be exactly the same age and the same size, but the grey one seems to have been worn more often. It also had strips of cork (of all things) stuffed behind the sweatband, indicating perhaps that the gentleman wore the hat into his later years.
I wonder if a Lounger with a medical background could explain the physiology of the scalp, and perhaps explain why old fellows stuff newspaper and such into the sweatbands of their old hats, which one would assume fit correctly when first purchased?
Anyway, here are some pictures. Perhaps the Borsalino daters can have a go?
