1950s Mallory Fleetlite. Cost $15 new. Tall, straight sided crown, short brim. Very ’30s proportions, but a ’50s hat.
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Hopkin’s Milan- Made in Baltimore
This is one of the nicer milans I’ve had come through. This and the Resistols. Great body, great quality trimmings and heapings of style. It dates from the late ’40s through mid ’50s.
Extra Quality Marathon
This hat was made in the 1930s and was sold by J.C. Penney’s under the Marathon house brand.
Pumpkin Mallory
I believe this “Classic Quality” Mallory dates before the Stetson buyout of the company, so that puts it in the 1940s. The sweatband construction is consistent with that dating. The pumpkin colored ribbon on this one makes it special.
Stetson Boater
This Stetson boater dates from the 1940s.
The Harvard Club boater
This boater was made in the 1930s by Harvard Club.
Genuine Bangora fedora
Straw treated with waterproofing. Drilled vents. Despite their tight weaves, these were inexpensive hats, with cheap trimmings.
Parkshire Open Road
This one had super thin, floppy felt. Unlined, but probably started out with a liner. Thin sweatband.
Dobbs Homburg
Soft black fur felt homburg. With all my talk of casual homburgs, here’s the classic formal one.
Borsalino XXXXX Leo
I got this at an antique shop in Salisbury Maryland. It, and a nearly identical one were in a closed hat box under some other things. Looked like someone else had wanted them and hidden them to get them later.
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