Straw Hat Day 2010: What hat are you wearing?

[leo]

Tomorrow is Straw Hat Day (actually today for some Loungers). I suppose you could call it one of our holidays. I will honor the day by wearing this Borsalino. It was my gateway Borso some 20 years ago when I made the mistake of stopping in to Batsake's Hat Shop in Cincinnati. It is still in pretty good condition and it seems like the most appropriate choice.

I showed you mine. Let's see yours.

Bill

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Straw hat day?

Says who? I have never heard of it. However I have old Dobbs I could wear.

 

[Mr E Train]

I'll probably wear my new "Boaterma".

 

[Blackthorn]

It's still cold enough for me to be wearing my Stetson Nostalgia (and I will) but when the weather warms up I'll be wearing my Panama Bob straw.

 

[The Good]

Alright, Straw Hat Day! I guess I'll have to make do with a cheap product, though. I've only got one of these:

I'll post a real picture of mine tomorrow, but this is the best photo I could muster right now, it's the actual thing I bought as a starter fedora. It was 34 bucks, and I was rather frugal at the time, not really knowing fedoras would quite be my thing. As a result, I wasn't willing nor ready to pay more than maybe 40 dollars for a hat.

 

[Panamabob]

Alright, Straw Hat Day! I guess I'll have to make do with a cheap product, though. I've only got one of these:



I'll post a real picture of mine tomorrow, but this is the best photo I could muster right now, it's the actual thing I bought as a starter fedora. It was 34 bucks, and I was rather frugal at the time, not really knowing fedoras would quite be my thing. As a result, I wasn't willing nor ready to pay more than maybe 40 dollars for a hat.

Be careful, this guy sells paper hats. Can you shoot a photo of the inside of the crown?>

 

[leo]

Says who? I have never heard of it. However I have old Dobbs I could wear.

I never heard of it before joining the FL and then reading a number of posts about it. With a bit of "googling" I learned it goes back into the 19th Century in the U.S. and had also been in effect on the second saturday in May instead of the traditional May 15.

Anyway, I trekked to the Dayton Hamvention where I saw quite a few straw and felt and cloth hats on heads of the tens of thousands of attendees shuffling along in the sunshine. Usually a see a boater or two (apparently THE hat for Straw Day according to some sites/posts ) but not this year.

Bill

 

[RBH]

Old photo, but its my Dobbs thin ribbon.

 

[Lokar]

Still far too cold here for straw, unfortunately.

 

[dhermann1]

I'll be sporting my PanamaBob.

 

[Lefty]

 

[Mr E Train]

^^^^^^
:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Mr E Train]

Wore my Boater-ma today.

 

[Not-Bogart13]

Too wet for straw today. If I had, it would have been a cheapy paper straw to go get the mail.

 

[Memo]

Panama Bob ebay special with a pug from My Baby Jo in L.A.

 

[CRH]

Di is wearing a fabric hat that could pass for straw to the uninitiated.

This evening I'm wearing a vintage Stetson Panama. Earlier I wore a Panama Bob for yard work.

Bravo to Lefty and the Mrs.! :eusa_clap

 

[bolthead]

Barbiso

Parabuntal....

 

[donnc]

Be careful, this guy sells paper hats. Can you shoot a photo of the inside of the crown?

I'm not JB, and this is not his hat, but one I bought (and wore) yesterday at a fair in Seattle, from a rather pleasant lady with a European accent I couldn't place. I'm not sure this hat actually had an Ultrafino tag, but most of the hats did.