I got this one direct from Italy. It has a nice fur felt body, but a cloth sweatband, no liner, and no markings whatsoever. So a high end body, but a low end hat. Because of the construction of this one, it was easy to roll and pack.
It’s rock hard like a boater, the same weave as a boater, but blocked and flanged like a ’50s or ’60s pork pie. The brim is fixed down.
Another Borsalino knockoff from Brasiliano. Here’s the other one.
THis one has loads of style, with a pleated ribbon, fancy exotic textured sweatband and colorful pleated liner.
I got this one from Italy. The “hand made” script is in Italian, but it is marked as being a London hat. Who knows?
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.
This is an unusual style of hat. Wide brim, low porkpie crown, back bow, slightly fuzzy finish.
This is another hat I got from a supplier in Italy. And another one that arrived squished in an envelope. But you know, the work put into fixing the shipping damage was always worth it. The guy had some really interesting hats.
I got this Brasiliano hat shipped over from Italy. It’s a Borsalino knock-off, and while the quality isn’t AS nice, it’s still pretty good, with a very nice fur felt body. The sweatband’s not the best, but it is leather.
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.
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