LelandJ
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I've long been perplexed on how to look dignified when it is hot but misty out.
Here's something that has been troubling me. I posted something similar to this on SF yesterday but so far got no responses. Briefly, why are beaver felt hats so damn expensive when beaver is really a very cheap fur these days? According an article in Western Outdoor News, at a fur auction last year, beaver pelts averaged only $23. For comparison purposes, prices were as follows for other common animals: muskrat $10; raccoon: $18; coyote: $88. (I presume this last is only for prime winter pelts.)
I know only the underfur is used, but beavers are pretty big animals, so how many beavers have to die for the felt to make a fedora? I can't imagine enough to warrant a $300 markup over a similar hat made from rabbit fur.
I am left wondering if this high markup isn't a legacy of the days when beavers were much rarer and the hatters are just capitalizing on public ignorance.
I'd have to dig it up, but some guy at AAAC (stylepurgatory, I think) did a how-to for fabricating hat bands. Given the high number of times I've liked a hat but not the band, it was good to know.Like these panama hats from Drakes with the raw tussah silk bands. Makes a nice change from the standard black ribbon...
I just received this Hat People full cut wool hat. Fits a little tighter than I thought it would but probably because it sits lower than I thought it would. The brim top isn't sewn to the cap top so I have to shape it on which isn't a big deal but harder to get right without looking at a mirror. Definitely prefer the shape to my Junya flat caps, but do wish the wool were a thicker fabric.
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Holy cow, nutty Tibor's hat company actually has a real page now and not just a faceypage. I wish we could know how many $900 hats he sells.
Engel & Co. Hatters
If he is to be believed, he has been heavily recruited by police academies after doing so well in his police cadet/explorer course but has put that off to grow his hat company. He hopes to join the thin blue line sometime in his 30's.
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Tibor
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Originally Posted by Sander
Very cool, as always. Have you ever talked about what you do for a living? I'm wondering because my impression was that this is pretty formal for the US. But I like to think that your job involves a lot of ass-kicking, like police commissioner or so.
I would love to kiss some ass, but with all the youtube videos Internal affairs is all tied up. I was a police cadet which is very similar to a police explorer, and worked as a Calfornia Public State Officer, and of course your run of a mill average private security guard. Upon completing police cadets I was recruited by a few local police departments to join the academy which is a regional police academy in San Diego County. I decided to enter into the world of hattery first, and recently started my own hat company. I keep close contacts in local & federal law enforcment as I hope to enter the Academy before my mid 30's. Until then I will pursue my passion in hattery.
Holy cow, nutty Tibor's hat company actually has a real page now and not just a faceypage. I wish we could know how many $900 hats he sells.
Engel & Co. Hatters
If he is to be believed, he has been heavily recruited by police academies after doing so well in his police cadet/explorer course but has put that off to grow his hat company. He hopes to join the thin blue line sometime in his 30's.
Unfortunately, he only appears to have one model of hat, in one colour, for sale at present. I assume that he'll expand further in the future.
I think that he's got things the wrong way around. I would have thought that it would have been better to seize the opportunity to go to police academy while he was "in demand", so to speak, rather than putting it off for a decade and then hoping that he'll be able to get in. Also, he could save money while he's in the police force and put it towards his hat business on the side.
Also, if those documentaries that they made in the 1980s about life at the police academy were accurate - the ones with Steve Guttenberg as the trainee officer along with his zany colleagues - then police training is great fun and Tibor should leap at the opportunity!
Dropped into a small very tiny young person's hip clothing shop...Was chatting to owner about men's clothes. Knowledge enough bloke. I asked what was the next big ish thing happening in sales. He said Bucket Hats. I adjusted my ear trumpet and asked him to repeat himself. Yep. It was bucket hats.
First the train incident now this - you stalking me?Speaking of bucket hats, while coming in to work this morning, I spotted a rather hippie-ish looking man in his fifties wearing a black leather bucket hat.
He had long, greying hair and was also wearing a linen shirt, an odd linen or hemp vest and loose, tie-dyed trousers.
Watch caps. Any advice or recommendations?
Wool, acrylic blend or cashmere?
Army-Navy surplus store or something higher end?
Watch caps. Any advice or recommendations?
Wool, acrylic blend or cashmere?
Army-Navy surplus store or something higher end?
I've had a cashmere watchcap going on 7 years and it's going strong. I think how it's woven matters. Got it for $8 on sale at Club Monaco.
When I read your post and got to possum I couldnt help but think "possum head" a google search quickly yielded this gem.unprocessed
How cold a climate? For casual wear?