Vintage style cotton hats for the tropics

[Seb Lucas]

What do people recommend? Already have a Tilley which isn't really vintage. Saw some cotton vintage hats in the film The English Patient and Clint Eastwood wears one in White Hunter Black Heart...

Is there a classic 1930's to 1950's cotton hat look or a model which is similar to some originals?

 

[BellyTank]

http://www.chapellerie-traclet.com/hat/traclet-sylvain-p-698.html


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[Seb Lucas]

I figured cotton wouldn't excite people the way fur felt does. Thanks Belly.

I guess I'm thinking more of hats which don't try too hard to immitate a fedora - and less stiff.

More in the cotton tilley vein, but more classic...

I've seen stingy and wide brims. Maybe I should just look at the Lock and Co summer range.

Cheers - Seb.

 

[RBH]

Thanks for the link BT, that is the classic 'farm' hat that I used to see when I was a kid.
Just might have to check into it.

 

[BellyTank]

Seb-
Try also ebay.co.uk, and look at cotton/cloth hats-
there are some styles you won't see on .com,
some that nay be a little more English bush hat.

RBH- you're welcome.
These have been mentioned recently in another thread
but I can't remember which.
Apparently, they're a little more synthetically lined/sweatbanded
than vintage ones but my vintage one does have a "leatherette" sweat.
Lined with thin cork in the crown and brim.


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[Mysterious Mose]

Here's the Traclet hat, in Melbourne:

 

[Matt Deckard]

Kind of has that, "I drink your milkshake" look.

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Well spotted! That's what I was goin' for.
By the way, you still owe me a $:
http://thefedoralounge.com/showpost.php?p=867591&postcount=2417

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Oops, mine's another cotton and cork hat than the one BT posted on top of the page. Same company, though.
http://www.chapellerie-traclet.com/hat/traclet-chapeau-pampa-p-321.html?osCsid=58660eb457a8ac0d5fcb977822171fdc
I do like the Afghanka hat:

or the Daisy Mae:

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Not just for the tropics.