Nice milan body, super cheap trimming.
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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.
Always on Top – Oasis cowboy hat
This hat, from the 1950s or 1960s, is a cheap wool felt. The welted brim edge is something you see on fedoras, but you just don’t see on nicer westerns. A hat like this needs it for stiffening. It has a horseshoe shaped crease, an imitation leather band and a very thin liner.
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.
Mallory Aristocrat
This hat dates from the 1950s- post Stetson buyout. Similar to the Stetson Whippet in dimensions and trimming. It looks like this hat had a factory blocked crown as opposed to coming open crowned.
Mode Edge comparison
Three 7X Clear beaver Stetsons, three cavanagh edges.
The Zombie necktie
1940s tie with a recipe for the popular tiki bar drink- the zombie. Rum rum and more rum. I got this at Halifax, NS vintage shop “50 hats”.
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.
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