Velour finish Barcelona hat, probably from the ’70s or ’80s. Made of imported furs. Medium width brim- tapered crown.
Barcelona- made in the USA
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Manilan Braid
Nice milan body, super cheap trimming.
Champ Stingy Brim
I like the unusual color of the liner on this one, along with its graphics. 1960s hats were good for that. It’s also unusual to see stingy brims like this with a bound brim- usually you saw welts. This one has the most characters I’ve ever seen stamped on the sweatband.
Stevens – The Royalist
This is a nicer quality milan straw by Stevens. Leather sweatband, liner tip. Soft, flexible milan straw.
Corduroy Marathon
I’m not convinced this hat ever looked very good. Golden corduroy with a black band. Very casual, very small. It got squished somewhere along the line and looks pretty rumpled.
Wegener Florett German fedora
This old Frankfurt sold Wegener Florett fedora had extremely elastic, springy felt. It has an early style sweatband with wide embossing and a laced rear seam. The hat is of a casual style with a short brim and crown, and a felt ribbon.
Brent Airlite
This was the first fedora I got off eBay, I think the second thing I got off eBay at all, after a ’50s diner matchbook. I wore it to Alaska, but didn’t end up keeping it too long after that.
Borsalino Victor
It says Borsalino, but didn’t seen quite up to regular Borsalino standards, even for lightweight rollers. I had this shipped over direct from Italy from a dealer who had great hats and insisted on shipping them all in envelopes. Always required a lot of work to get them looking like hats again, and not like pancakes.
Resistol San Antonio
This was the first vintage hat I bought. I got it at a shop in Arizona right around easter when I was 14 years old. This is the one that started it all- and it’s all been downhill (uphill?) since.
Knox Homburg
Not just fine- Superfine!
This hat runs the casual end of homburgs. Brown, front dents, rust colored binding. I got this and a similarly colored Stetson Flagship in trade for a thin ribbon 1950s Mallory, which suited, and fit the client much better.
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