Indy Brown pics-Optimo over a year later

Mattdeckard · Post by **Mattdeckard** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:06 am

Here are some pics of my new Optimo Indy brown... with the new ribbon.

END OF LINE.

Mattdeckard · Post by **Mattdeckard** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:05 pm

END OF LINE.

Farnham54 · Post by **Farnham54** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:25 am

Very, very sharp looking hat.

Good choice of book for the pose, too

Mattdeckard · Post by **Mattdeckard** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:58 am

This hat has been thoroughly thrashed with rain and rolling for travel and crushed over and over again. It's a tuff hat. Very thin and very floppy, Very tough.

Only flaws I have found is the brim being too perfect (not cut awkward like swales cut) and slight taper. It tapered less than I have seen other's Optimo's taper.

The pinch and shaping is from naturally grabbing the crown. I use this as a utility hat.

The current light weight offerings from Optimo are a bit thicker.

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:05 am

I wish I had one of those! I've always wanted a floppy felt. The Raiders hat was definitely very floppy - watch his brim when he's hanging on to the truck!

You have had one Pagey. The new HJs are very floppy.

The early Optimos were too floppy for an Indy fedora. Ask the owners of the earlier ones. I had 3. regards, Fedora

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:39 am

I know what you mean. The only trouble with my Optimos is that that same gust of wind would leave your crown looking like it had been.....stepped on.

Imagine the feather from Forrest Gump hitting your crown and completely changing the bash.

Not quite that bad, but pretty close. There is a happy medium, and while the newer Optimos may be better, the old ones would drive you crazy trying to keep the bashes like you did em'. And, the brims would drive you crazy. I imagine when they made the felt thicker than cellophane, it helped out tremendously. Fedora

Dakota Ellison · Post by **Dakota Ellison** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:04 am

I had to spray felt stiffener on the brim of my Optimo Indy about 4 times before it would return to shape after a stiff breeze. My new HJ however, has never had stiffener applied, and the brim will flip up in a breeze and return to shape nicely.

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:32 am

My new HJ however, has never had stiffener applied, and the brim will flip up in a breeze and return to shape nicely.

Yeah, I thought the new HJs were real floppy too. Pagey may have got a different run of felt when he got his. regards, Fedora

Dakota Ellison · Post by **Dakota Ellison** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:23 am

By the way, Matt, my Optimo is about as old as yours and has held up well too. The felt has lightened a little from me grabbing it like Ford does, right at the top of the pinch. I'm trying to pick it up by the brim more, but it's like when I gave up cigarettes 14 years ago. Habits die hard.

Indy Brown pics-Optimo over a year later

Indy Brown pics-Optimo over a year later

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