What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

[GregNYC]

Yeah, I like wide ribbons a lot! I'm watching a string of film noirs now. Ribbons half the crown height. Your photo appeared at just the right time!

 

[Dark Arcane]

Right on! The label inside the hat says San Francisco. It always makes me think of Dashiell Hammett or something along those lines. It also makes me think of Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo.

 

[suitedcboy]

I too favor the tall crown wide ribbon fedoras with ample brim.
The dents and pinch of that one is WAY cool.
I googled Robert Kirk and found it a name associated with a clothier in San Francisco. But that hat looks vintage so it is from that store or I am in the dark about a Robert Kirk hat maker?

 

[DJH]

Thanks guys for the comments on my brace of Indy hats from the weekend.

Heading to the Ft Worth office, where its still bloody dark

Stetson Whippet (grainy low light photo)

 

[1mach1]

Great look, Dark Arcane. Nice color on that ribbon.
David, sweet Whippet. Sadly, darkness has taken over the morning.

 

[GregNYC]

David, that great photo and the lighting reminds me of getting up at zero-dark-thirty in the Army and doing push-ups in the parking lot!

I was in a vintage/noir mood today and left the house with my Dobbs. But I saw it was raining and went back for my Akubra, the acorn-colored one that I had designated as a foul-weather fedora. By the time I got back out, it had stopped raining and I was late. So I took the photo on the subway..

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[casechopper]

Very nice stratoliner and VS's Eric. It's nice to see you around here again.

Jeff, nice Wormser. I wish I could get back to the plains again. The NYC area is very claustrophobia inducing once you've become accustomed to the open spaces of the mid-west.

Nice colors on that Robert Kirk Dark Arcane.

Nice Whippet David.

The acorn Akubra Stylemaster works well for you Greg.

Wegener Melone

 

[alanfgag]

Good to see the Wegener melone, CS. Does it get any special attention when you wear it?

 

[GregNYC]

Casechopper, you're rockin' it! Are the boots Wesco?

 

[Dark Arcane]

I too favor the tall crown wide ribbon fedoras with ample brim.
The dents and pinch of that one is WAY cool.
I googled Robert Kirk and found it a name associated with a clothier in San Francisco. But that hat looks vintage so it is from that store or I am in the dark about a Robert Kirk hat maker?

Cable Car Clothiers bought Robert Kirk Ltd. in 1972. There's not a whole lot of information on the company prior to that. I know Robert Kirk Limited was founded by Wendel Kerth Nicolaus and Robert Kirk Underhill in 1939. They specialized in British haberdashery-type stuff. That's about all I know. But I'm pretty jazzed to have a hat from them that predates the much more well known Cable Car.

 

[casechopper]

Alan: Not particularly. I don't get much feedback on my hats here (in North Jersey). People either don't care, look but don't want to say anything, or very occasionally say "nice hat". This applies to 14.5" plato grande berets, bowlers, super-sized cowboy hats etc... I've found I'll get more response from a t-shirt with a design people can relate to. The jacket in this photo has received more "nice jacket" comments in the few weeks I've worn it than any one of my hats has received ever.


Greg: They're White's smoke jumpers.

 

[casechopper]

Yesterday (Carmack Whiskey)

 

[hatsRme]

Happy, joyous COLUMBUS DAY here in the U. S. of A.! That warrants a nod to our Italian cousins as well, eh, Daniele?!?!

Lookin' GREAT under the Carmack, Sam, with another Sharp dresser on the slide.

OXBLOOD VS for the holiday today, brim up!

 

[alanfgag]

I like that greeting, Charlie... brim up to you too!

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Yes RME more than cousins, I have part of my family (both families of my granddads) in the USA.
Even if we lost contacts many years ago, I remember well in the 50 and early 60 when packages arrived full of everything...hats too, with a sort of strange mixing. From cream shave to chocolat

 

[alanfgag]

What else?

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Thanks on the comments of my westerns.
Yesterday had not time to resize images so...

Yesterday was a Stagecoach a lounger gifted me.

And today this navy blue Stetson Billy Kidd and it got some rain...

 

[hatsRme]

To your Colombo, Alan... :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

I vaguely remember enjoying a couple Colombos!

Joao You must have stayed completely dry under there!

 

[Lotsahats]

Happy, joyous COLUMBUS DAY here in the U. S. of A.!

Can it! With the USPS taking the day off, I have to wait till tomorrow for a couple of hats. Grr!

 

[GregNYC]

I was supposed to have 2 hats arriving today. I guess now it might be tomorrow :-(


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