Big ’30s cowboy hat, with a leather buckled band no less. Does it get more American?
But this one was made in England and shipped over. Odd.
Dimensions are huge, but the curl on the brim is also enormous, so it makes the whole thing look much smaller when it’s not in context on someone’s head.
Brown leather gets such a nice patina to it, doesn’t it? A quality shoe just gets better with age. A cheap shoe looks like crap. And there are so many barely-worn vintage high quality shoes floating around for a tiny fraction of what the would cost to buy new.
This one dates smack-dab in the World War II period. It has the union jack and an English Bulldog on the liner. This is deadstock from a Canadian source.