Show us your Stingy Brims

Mallory Eagle.

 

Cavanagh Thirty "Rat Pack Hat" and my new English Penn-Craft. Similar lines, an ocean apart. Its all about the vintage early 60s, when I was but a wee lad.

 

I would define stingy brim as 2" and less. I have a couple but they're at home so it'll have to wait til late Sunday.

 

I've got plenty of stingies. I like my brims around 2 1/8 to 1/4 inches, but 2 is probably my most common brim width in my collection.
I used to be obsessed with 30s/40s fashion, (I guess I still am) but lately I've been all over late 50s/early 60s. Might have something to do with trying to find a style that better suits my current mop top...
Anyhoo, I'm at work, definitely breaking some rules by browsing the lounge. I'll see if I can't get a few pictures of my stingies when I'm home.

 

Here I am with my fairly new Akubra Trilby stingy brim.

 

I think you're doing the right thing casting the net wide. I would also only really consider something under 2" as being stingy, but relationship to the face shape is surely more important - on a man with a really wide head, even a broad brim might look stingy.

 

My only stingy, a Resistol Kitten Finish from the early Sixties with, I think, a 2 1/8" brim:




'Tis the only hat I have with a feather. It came with one, and the feather is so subtle -- you can hardly see it in Pic 2 -- that I've kept it.

I should wear this one more often. To me it's the sort of hat to wear with long sleeves, dress shirt or not, sleeves rolled up, while sitting at an outdoor cafe . . . and around here for most of the year, sitting outdoors is madness. Still, it's a very comfortable lid.

 

How soon we forget this stingy thread...

Gots to love them Stingies, or as I call 'em, "SLIMBRIMS!"

 

+1

 

This is the only "stingy brim" hat I own...for now, anyway:



It began it's life as a Winston Fedora, and with help from fellow Lounger Stetsonofagun I learned it originally came with a Center Dent crease and smallish side dents. I bought it from fellow Lounger Matt "Historyteach24" in March of 2016. He had converted the Center Dent to a Telescope crease to give the hat a Pork Pie look, and I'm glad he did because if he hadn't it probably wouldn't have caught my eye when he listed it in the Classified section. Unfortunately, the Telescope crease was too low to accommodate my enormous head, and the hat's open crown is comically tapered (similar to the hat Leonard "Chico" Marx wore in the movies with his brothers) so simply raising the Telescope didn't work. I had seen Pork Pie hats with Diamond creases online and gave that a try, but the hat didn't agree so we settled on a C-Crown with a bit of rake; before photos on the left, after photos on the right:



Fortunately this raised the crown just enough for my head to fit, and it became a favorite hat. For whatever reason the felt likes to photograph with the grayish hue seen in the "before and after" shots; the color in the photos of me wearing the hat is far more accurate. The ribbon is wrinkled and it has some shallow moth damage on the brim, but to me that just adds character to the hat.

By the way, if anyone knows anything about these Winston fedoras I'd like to learn more about them. There is no information on the underside of the sweat, but the gold embossment on the sweat reads "E. SHAMIR" with "HAIFA" in smaller letters beneath. Initially I thought E. Shamir might be the original owner, but Stetsonofagun's hats bear the same embossment so I think it's safe to assume E. Shamir is the hatter. With this meager information the Internet was no help, so I have no idea of how old this hat might be.

 

How about Tyrol hats or is it a Trachtenhüte
I'm in Heidelberg here so the hat wandered a little off course

 

The hat appears to be right at home,John.

 

Thank you, I always buy something for my trips abroad. The feather(Gamsbart?) is just a touristy one though bought on the hauptstrasser