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This vintage hat was made in the 1950s. The milan straw body was made in Italy, and it was finished and sold by Resistol. It has porkpie styling, with a wide grosgrain ribbon, with a back bow. This style was popular for a period in the mid to late 1950s. Despite being marked a 7-1/4, the hat has shrunk and measures and fits as a 7-1/8.
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This is a vintage high quality milan straw summer fedora hat. It was made by the Champ Hat company in the late 1950s. It has a nice brown leather sweatband, flat top porkpie styling, with a super wide band and back bow.
Size: 7-1/4Brim Width: 2-1/8″Band Width: 2-1/2″Crown Height: 4″
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This vintage straw hat was made in the early 1960s. It is a cross between a porkpie and an optimo blocking, with a snap brim. It has a mused brown, blue and yellow puggaree. About an inch and a half of stitching on the braid has dropped at the top of the porkpie crown near the front. It doesn’t show when wearing, and could be fixed easily with several stitches. The hat has a fabric sweatband. It is only marked “Genuine Imported Braid” and “Custom Made”.
Size: 7-1/8Brim Width: 1-3/4″Band Width: 1-3/4″Crown Height: 6″
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This hat was made in the 1950s by the Champ Hat company. It is a high grade milan summer straw hat, with a bound brim, teardrop porkpie blocking and a nicely executed wide ribbon and bow. There is a satin liner tip and a leather sweatband. The sweatband isn’t in very good shape, but the rest of the hat is. These old high quality milans are hard to come by (lots of cheap milans back in the day), and sweatband replacement isn’t very hard or expensive.
Size: 7-1/4
Brim Width: 2″
Ribbon Width: 2-1/4″
This stingy milan straw by Dunlap dates from the 1960s. It’s an unusual shade of green. Nice quality throughout.
A cheap 1960s one-season straw. Low quality milan, low quality trimmings. The only reason so many of these survive is that so many were made.
This is one of the nicer milans I’ve had come through. This and the Resistols. Great body, great quality trimmings and heapings of style. It dates from the late ’40s through mid ’50s.
I think Men’s Hats Inc. may have been related to Hopkin’s of Baltimore. Maybe a later iteration of it?
This hat is a milan straw and dates from the 1960s.
This vintage straw hat was made in the 1960s by the John B. Stetson Company. It has an extremely tapered crown.
“Custom Made”. Nice soft finely done milan on this. Cheap fabric covered sweatband. It dates from the 1960s.
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