This one’s a huge hat. Big crown, big brim, and like most modern Stetsons, lousy felt and trimming.
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Clear Beaver presentation Stetson
Mode (Cavanagh) edge 7X (XXXXXXX) clear beaver Stetson, a presentation model to employee George Kuhn at retirement.
I think this is the single nicest Stetson I’ve ever had. The felt is sublime and the trimmings are a cut above even other 7Xs and 100s.
Rollable Borsalino
This hat was designed to be packable. Fold it in half, roll it, and stick it in a tube. Super thin, soft, lightweight felt.
1930s Black Borsalino
This big, black pre-war Italian Borsalino was sold at Jenkin’s Arcade in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s a hat with a lot of presence.
Stetson Stratoliner
The Stetson Stratoliner is arguably one of Stetson’s best known hat models. Named after the airplane, it had fedora blocking and a thin ribbon. This one, sourced in Frederick, Maryland, saw a lot of wear in its life.
Stetson Select Quality Homburg
1920s Stetson Select Quality Homburg. Sold by Holt’s of Los Angeles. Twisted knot bow, deep, crisp imprints on the leather sweatband.
Plaid
’40s custom made western hat. ’50s Penneys Hunting Jacket. Fingerless wool gloves. Wide Leg Corduroy trousers. Vintage moc toe work shoes.
Funeral Hat
This ’50s Lee homburg originally belonged to someone who worked at the Bush Funeral Home in New York. Dark hat. Dark business.
1930s homburg
This homburg has lost its liner and sweatband, but bears the old style union tag, which dates it from the early ’30s or before. For everyone who says the homburg is and was a formal hat, I urge you to actually look at period photos, and to everyone who says homburgs are and were stiff hats, I urge you to actually feel a vintage one.
1930s Pilgrim Carlsbad cowboy hat
This Pilgrim Carlsbad was available mail-order throughout the 1930s and 1940s. With the quality of the trimmings on this one, I’d say it’s probably from the 1930s. It’s a big, curled brim cowboy hat, tom mix creased. And wool felt- this was a budget hat- a working man’s hat.
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