Trilby find

[esteban68]

I am not sure if there is a trilby thread? if there is I apologise and feel free mods to put this in there.
I got this Ranella trilby recently, it's olive green/brown with very little wrong with it condition wise(just a couple of very tiny moth nibbles under the brim), it appears to be made of quality felt(fur?).
It was described as 7 1/8 which is my size but it was/is quite a tight fit, so I tried to stretch it a bit and the already cracked sweatband cracked some more...I have an old Dunn & Co bowler that is far too large and damaged to wear(badly cracked crown) so I removed the sweat band and stretched the tribly and sewed the Dunhill leather sweat band into the trilby...though if I am honest it's still a little tight.
The before photos;

one of the pinch dents had popped out and the sides had both become curled possibly through poor storage?

 

[job]

As far as I know people in Europe say trilby and Americans say fedora. Same soft floppy fur felt hat.

 

[esteban68]

I wasn't sure over? here a fedora generally is taken to mean a trilby but with a noticably wider brim, this trilby brim is just under 2".
This was the damage to the sweatband

and the donor 'bowler'

I removed the sweatband from the trilby

and used the one from the old and damaged bowler

 

[RBH]

check this post.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...et-an-answer&p=1376532&viewfull=1#post1376532

 

[esteban68]

Bit of an update on this, I managed to sew in a 'new' band and reformed it's shape with a kettle and steam...however it's still a bit tight! ho hum such is life I might have to sell it on!

 

[Hal]

As far as I know people in Europe say trilby and Americans say fedora. Same soft floppy fur felt hat.

I wasn't sure over? here a fedora generally is taken to mean a trilby but with a noticeably wider brim, this trilby brim is just under 2".

Job is basically right; the use of the term "fedora" on this side of the Atlantic is recent - it was virtually unknown 25 years ago. The vast majority of Britons call every soft felt hat a "trilby", however wide its brim.

 

[Edward]

Bit of an update on this, I managed to sew in a 'new' band and reformed it's shape with a kettle and steam...however it's still a bit tight! ho hum such is life I might have to sell it on!

Lovely job on the sweatband stitching!