Received Federation IV Deluxe Friday. Ordered 61 whereas earlier Feds (Standard) ordered were 60's. While originally large on me, they all work down to size in short order. The fawn color on the Deluxe is very nice and makes a nice hat. However, be aware that the crown height on these is considerabl...

What are you shooting out of your Webley? You list .455 so is yours uncut?

Am looking for someone loading a gentle .45AR that won't tear up my revolvers.

Sorry to keep harping on this subject, and I am honestly not trying to be argumentative, but it interests me and I started thinking maybe I was crazy! So please take all of this in the spirit intended, I am inquisitive. I started thinking about it and two things about my experience are true: 1) The ...

Thanks for the tip on Vintage Silouettes. Will look them up!

All I can say is that my experience differs. The 100 year old hat I spoke of is high quality felt. The later hats were all dress-style hats and I can't vouch for the quality of the felt, but they all seemed to me to be high quality. I've never owned a wool hat. I wonder if the height of the crown mi...

Agreed. It actually used to both confuse and aggrevate me, but it actually kinda angered him!

Others here have more experience with this, but just to share: I normally wear a 52L in suits and leather riding jackets and recently acquired an xxl US Wings Indy jacket. It fits me identically to the jacket(s) worn by Harrison Ford in Raiders and the sleeve length is fine for all but riding MC or ...

Didn't answer your original question and meant to. I wasn't around in the golden era, but in the late 70's and 80's when there were still haberdashers around, taper was very much a part of your fitting. Of course, you had many more styles and shapes to choose from. That said, more important was the ...

Interesting comment about the age of felt. However, I have a 100 year old "Tom Mix" (for lack of a better term) hat that seems to shrink just about as much as any others. I tend to think that it's more the continuous stretch/shrink cycles over time that cause older hats to finally find an ...

The worn area you see at the top front of Bogie's crown is VERY typical of old, well-used fedoras. I just recently retired my granddad's old stetson that looked nearly identical and my own stetsons (from the early 80's) looked about the same when I retired them. It is a combination of picking them u...

I am only sharing my experience - what you decide to do is up to you. I'm sure some will shudder at what I am about to say... I have owned fine felt hats for many years and have always reworked them myself. For brim corrections I use a HOT iron with steam set to highest setting. There is a slight ch...

I recently realized that the reason I started wearing fedoras long ago was because of the movie "The Sting." I never realized it until recently, but it is likely that that movie had a big impact on my hat wear (I've also always worn "newsboy" caps. I got out of fedora wearing for...

Thought someone might know if any of the replica Raiders holsters will fit a Webley Mk I. I'd like to find a left handed leather holster for mine.

Just got added to forum! Thanks. Ironically, I had just watched LOC the night before I saw this entry a couple weeks ago and had noticed, for the first time, that Indy was NOT using a Mk VI as everyone once thought. I actually suspected it was one of the Naval versions of the Mk I that had 5 inch ba...