Toppers Unite

[Joao Encarnado]

Nice tall ones!

 

[mayserwegener]

Great + Interesting Finds! Good to see you back.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

The Melton & Co. topper and the Arno Weiske opera hat, together...

 

[mayserwegener]

Super!

 

[buler]

Story on tall hats from 1890.

 

[1mach1]

Interesting read, Bill. Thanks for posting.

 

[alanfgag]

Yes... very. When I met our member Zetwal in Texas several years back he gave me a nice small book on the history of the top hat. I need to find some time to share the material here.

 

[alanfgag]

bump... because you can never be too aged or too tall.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Arrived today: French gibus hat (opera hat) with box.

 

[alanfgag]

Great! Hope it fits well.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Great! Hope it fits well.

It fits!

 

[sebastian czentner]

I usually im not fond about hat tops, but lately i've see some some low top hats that i really liked and possibly my next buy.

 

[Redfokker]

It fits!

Detail shots please! Looks really nice.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Detail shots please! Looks really nice.

 

[Redfokker]

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Really nice Fabio. Wish I could pull off the look like you do!

 

[steur]

Just to counterbalance the huge hat that Alan wears (that man manages to look good in any hat) here's an interesting bit of hat history (with pictures) about really small hats. This is the first installment of some mini-hats I own (a topper, an ascot (pictured below) and a formal bicorn hat. These were made by Jan Spoorenberg, using leftovers from manufacturing high hats. In an interview he stated he made them as a hobby, but these hats were in fact given to visiting dignitaries as memento. The ones I own were given to the mayor of Eindhoven Charles van Rooy in the early fifties. His daughter sold them to me when she moved house. If you look on youtube for "Het vervaardigen van een hoge zijden hoed.(Silk Tophat)" you'll find a movie of such a visit (in the movie it's mayor Kolfschoten who visits the factory and it's Jan Spoorenberg's father showing him around.

 

[steur]

And part two. The silk top hat. More on Jan Spoorenberg later.

nd part two. More on Jan Spoorenberg later.

 

[steur]

And the third installment. There's no thread I know of about bicorn hats and this one belongs to the set, so here it is...

 

[sebastian czentner]

new wool felt low top hat

Enviado desde mi GT-I8190L mediante Tapatalk

 

[steur]

I still owe the members of the lounge a post about Jan Spoorenberg, but before I do that I will post a hat made by the Spoorenberg factory of Eindhoven. They produced their hats under the brand name Burton. Here's the one I have. Size 56, 5cm brim and 13 cm high. The factory was closed in 1975 and the inventory was sold to P&C Habig of Vienna.