Fedora! WOW! You pulled a "white rabbit" out of the hat!.. Er..no! you made a hat from a white rabbit..no...ok, it's an albino beaver.

Everyone realize that the light colored hats are the HARDEST to work? They show EVERY imperfection.

You nailed that! It looks beautiful!

I guess I am not a gear head. I am a hat lover. I have about 65 hats in my collection, they are fedoras and Montecristi and Cuenca Panamas. I have two top hats, one a Christy Beaver, the other a collapsable (Rogers Peet Co.) I have a pith helmet. I have one cowboy hat. Mostly, I have VINGAGE fedora'...

I have used Sheplers for not only stiffner, but the miracle hat spot cleaners.

Here is their link:

http://www.sheplers.com/item.cfm?di=101383

Yep, that's some real classy catalog! Ya gotta give it to these city boys. That thar YELLA hat they have with the BLUE leather trim is mighty purty! Jes might appeal to some of them fancy fellas over at the ol' lounge. Bushman :wink: I see you winked! Don't include ME in the" Lounge" crow...

Believe it or not, my first hat was from the Jackson Hole Hat Company. This was before the internet, and I saw an article in the local newspaper about a husband and wife team who hand made hats. I called them, and told them what I was looking for, the Fedora style. I also got the silver belly color....

ARK LIGHT FEDORA

You see the light in the ark in the crown of the hat!

Ark Light Fedora? I pm'ed you on the reasons...but it has a nice name, and the logo could be the customer opening the box and the raised fedora will give off rays of light!!

And you can say " I can go anywhere with my Ark Light Fedora on !!"

ok I am not Madison Avenue.

The INSIDE of the sweatband? You're kidding, right? Who looks there? Many of my vintage hats have the same thing done, and it is some process in the lableling or manufacturing process. NO ONE SEES IT. when you wear the hat. MANY men used a pen to scribe their name on the inner sweatbant to prevent m...

When I wear my fedora, which is every single day, I don't care about ANYTHING anyone says or does. I am extremely confident in who I am , and what I do. I can justify it: I am warmer, dryer, and won't get skin cancer. Plus I LOOK GOOD. In todays society, who has the right to judge what you wear. It ...

Living in California....and esp. those in LA.....you cannot wear a felt hat on a hot summer day. Straw. Nice Straw. Cuenca Straw for the everyday, inexpensive. Montecristi for the elite. I just got a hat body from Panama Bob and had Art Fawcett block it. It has albout a 3 inch brim...very wide for a...

You are SUPPOSED to WASH the Stetson hat first, just like the original Levis Jeans.!! Remember if you didn't wash the jeans first, they would bleed indego blue on your whites!?!?!?!!!! So first wash and rinse out the Stetson.....then you won't have it bleed down your face in inclement weather. :lol:...

No, not by a long shot. But I have always tried to help a friend. Hats are my passion, and to preserve such treasures is what it is all about. Everyone out there knows SOMETHING more than me, that's how we all improve. We share our knowledge and lend a hand. It's the right thing to do. Hummmm , soun...

Good hat stores remove the liner (for blocking later) and SOAK THE ENTIRE HAT IN CLEAN NAPTHA then scrub the fur in the proper direction. Then they spin the hat, and air dry it. Later it goes onto the block and is spun and brushed ..... The liner is later sewn in. Do you know why you take the liner ...

You should first check a local gun store if you are lucky enough to have one in your city. They can assist you ...for example I have a vintage gun dealer here in the Bay Area He has lots of Indy type of guns...rifles, colts, brownings too...you get the idea. There is a publication for guns called SH...

I FIRMLY believe in FIREARMS SAFETY...thanks for the reminder. HOWEVER remember when you complete your Indy outfit with a gun: BE AWARE OF WHO SEES IT OR WHERE YOU ARE. There are too many people who think you are carrying a REAL LOADED GUN. Most cops will point their guns at you and order you to the...

Yes it is very good stuff. I have used it on FELT hats of course, and to take tree sap out of my wife's pants (she was still wearing them, used a dampened rag and rubbed),and have used it to take stain out of a pair of high quality men's dress shoes (took wax off to the bare leather, then repolished...

Soak the hat in Naptha.....smells like paint thinner. It is used as a dry cleaning slovent. Used to clean felt hats. Air dry after placing on spinner in the solvent tank. This is what hat shops who know what they are doing use to clean felt hats. Will take out the stiffner. Remember, stiffner is use...

Yes in the movie bonus disk she used steel brush and knife. Who cares if the jacket lasts, it;s a movie costume. I want my jacked to last a loooong time! Try stuffing it with newspaper, zipped up, and dragging it around the block a couple of time on a rope behind your bicycle, better yet on a unpave...

I read in the "Cowboy Hat Book" by William Reynolds and Rich Rand (maker of fine Cowboy hats) that Fuller's Earth is available in drug and paint stores (funny none in my heighborhood), and it is used to clean butter or oil type of stains from your good felt hat. The powder is the cosistien...