Being me, if I ever get a flat cap, it'll be this one.
Show Us Your Hats!
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I too have purchased my hats at Bates in Jermyn Street London. This one I have had for 20+ years and is known as a 'Poet Fedora' which I tend to wear in the winter when I am in NYC. As far as I know it is the only hat I wear on a regular basis.
my hair has been described as a helmet before does that count?
Love flat caps and fedoras. Have 2 of the former and 3 of the latter. 2 of my fedoras are felt and 1 straw. 1 of my fedoras was made in the 40's, a Lee.
Hats, I've got a few. I have to wear a hat at work so I seem to accumulate them.
I’m mostly a cowboy hat guy but there are times a fedora is required.
Hats used to be way more popular. Look at this picture from 1920 of a crowd of men and boys taken at a football match in England.
I've got a few baseball caps but I normally wear a wooly hat. I also have a model that is the same as one of my favourite actors Sid James used to wear.
He was a pipe smoker as well.
I've got a few baseball caps but I normally wear a wooly hat. I also have a model that is the same as one of my favourite actors Sid James used to wear.
He was a pipe smoker as well.
Same here! Love flat caps. Mostly get mine from BS as well. Wearing the Special edition of The Kringle right now.
I wear bucket hats while playing golf for sun protection. Not much for style but effective for the given purpose.
Yep, same across Europe I’d say, I remember when i was little my dad told me in years past it was inconceivable for a man to leave the house without a hat.
I have a few hats, sadly still in storage after our recent move though.
I mainly wear ballcaps. I do have a homberg from when I used to be a well dressed lad about town,
I’ve got about 30 hats, mostly fedoras, felt, beaver, mostly Italian, half a dozen Borsalinos, etc.
I think people would be gnawing their wrists open if I showed them.
I think people would be gnawing their wrists open if I showed them.
I like hats, and I have few Akubras, one Stetson brand Startoliner Fedora,and for those hotter summer days,I've got Resistol and Bailey brand straw Cowboy styled ones and one German Mayser brand woven Panama hat, not to mention of one genuine Russian made pure mink fur hat if weather goes real below zero
Flat caps, Bowlers, Homburgs, love all vintage hats!
@Slacey very nice style you have going on with the cap, waistcoat, pocketwatch and trousers! Sometimes you wished ppl would have stuck a little more in a different era instead of the now era fashion wise (and in some way also in manners), especially the girls. Glad i'm also married to a older soul also, although were both 80's and 90's kids.
I like hats also, I just don't have any. There are not a lot of instances I could wear one, but a nice flatcap or fedora (depending on the rest of the clothing) is something I could really appreciate. But i'm sure this topic will cost me money someday, AGAIN!
I like hats also, I just don't have any. There are not a lot of instances I could wear one, but a nice flatcap or fedora (depending on the rest of the clothing) is something I could really appreciate. But i'm sure this topic will cost me money someday, AGAIN!
Slacey,
Your style is spot on ! The secret is not too make it look to "obvious ", if take you my meaning, and you master it
perfectly. When younger I dressed what is now called "heritage" . Back then it was considered eccentric, or
plain odd
while I was only dressing "heritage avant la lettre " .
Tweed overcoats, waistcoats, pocket watches, sleeve garters, the trousers , the whole shebang. I owned a huge collection of vintage hats and caps. You name it and it was there; fedora's, trilbys, Edens, Homburgs , panamas etc. I cleaned them over steam and brushed them.
In beaver, hare, straw etc. Most of it cleared out and I regret that now. What's left is a very rare Borsalino in
moss green, a Mayzer panama and a wonderful, brown fedora once bought in the Quartier Latin in Paris.
I now recall the name of the shop; it was Latreille. Also quite some newer 8 piece baker boy caps. Harris and Donegal tweed. Carloway, herringbone. Very Peaky Blinder style back then and now. Those were the days and the girls man, the girls
Of course there is also the obligatory beanie , best quality and style though
Your style is spot on ! The secret is not too make it look to "obvious ", if take you my meaning, and you master it
perfectly. When younger I dressed what is now called "heritage" . Back then it was considered eccentric, or
plain odd
while I was only dressing "heritage avant la lettre " .Tweed overcoats, waistcoats, pocket watches, sleeve garters, the trousers , the whole shebang. I owned a huge collection of vintage hats and caps. You name it and it was there; fedora's, trilbys, Edens, Homburgs , panamas etc. I cleaned them over steam and brushed them.
In beaver, hare, straw etc. Most of it cleared out and I regret that now. What's left is a very rare Borsalino in
moss green, a Mayzer panama and a wonderful, brown fedora once bought in the Quartier Latin in Paris.
I now recall the name of the shop; it was Latreille. Also quite some newer 8 piece baker boy caps. Harris and Donegal tweed. Carloway, herringbone. Very Peaky Blinder style back then and now. Those were the days and the girls man, the girls
Of course there is also the obligatory beanie , best quality and style though
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I bought two from these folks for those members who like a flat cap.
Welcome to Hat People
I have a British Triby, a fur Indiana Jones, a Stetson Stratoliner, and various flat caps. Some I found on eBay, and all several years back.
Welcome to Hat People
I have a British Triby, a fur Indiana Jones, a Stetson Stratoliner, and various flat caps. Some I found on eBay, and all several years back.
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This is a great thread!
I pretty much wear some type of hat every day of the year. One of the things that I developed a fascination for as a child. My wife complains about all of the hats/caps in every room of the house except the bathrooms .
I wish I could get them all together and take a picture of what I have, but it would be more of an undertaking than I am willing to get into. I will just say that I could wear a different one everyday of the year without repeating.
I pretty much wear some type of hat every day of the year. One of the things that I developed a fascination for as a child. My wife complains about all of the hats/caps in every room of the house except the bathrooms .
I wish I could get them all together and take a picture of what I have, but it would be more of an undertaking than I am willing to get into. I will just say that I could wear a different one everyday of the year without repeating.
