And the winner is... Burlington Coat Factory!

Post by **Dalexs** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:44 pm

OK Newbies, listen up! Here's a blast from the past. Who can tell me what the new hat is that I'm wearing?
I'm in the process of rebuilding it from the ground up.
Winner gets a drink next time we meet.

Dalexs

Mola Ram · Post by **Mola Ram** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:04 pm

either a BCf special or a akubra snowy river.
Adam

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:42 pm

Dalexs wrote:OK Newbies, listen up! Here's a blast from the past. Who can tell me what the new hat is that I'm wearing?
I'm in the process of rebuilding it from the ground up.
Winner gets a drink next time we meet.

Dalexs

Ummm....A fedora!

Shawnkara · Post by **Shawnkara** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:41 am

Camp Draft

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:07 am

A Ductape one!

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:28 am

Looks real vintage looking. Great find!! You gonna do the dimensional cut? Regards, Fedora

zohar · Post by **zohar** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:39 pm

An old Akubra Bushman or Drover?

Post by **Dalexs** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:33 pm

Nope, nope, nope, close, nope, nope (in no particular order!)

No dimensional cut. 3" brim all around. slight pinch.
Not bashed for an Indy Hat look. more vintage style.
I'm still working on the brim.

I decided I like the wider brims as of late. My Akubra Fed Deluxe has
a wide brim and I'm really liking it.

Keep trying!

whiskyman · Post by **whiskyman** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:40 pm

Gary White?

agent5 · Post by **agent5** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:45 pm

A vintage HJ? You really like a wider brim, doncha?

Mulceber · Post by **Mulceber** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:59 pm

I'm gonna have to say a Gary White. :junior: -IJ

Indiana Texas-girl · Post by **Indiana Texas-girl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:10 pm

As I said over at the FL, I think you got RIT dye remover and redyed the fedora, perhaps an Akubra. But if I really had to guess maybe a Vintage Silouettes. Nice hat though.

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:31 pm

I don't know, I already said a fedora. What is it, a baseball cap with ear flaps? A pith helmet with no stiffener? A skull cap with a brim? A western style doo rag? A racing helmet with a rain guard? A dog house with a storm flap? A tweed cap with a golf umbrella? A trucker's cap with mud flaps? A fishing cap with sunscreen?

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:00 pm

Nobody has guessed Peters Bros ... I'll guess a Kangaroo colored Peters Bros.

Mulceber · Post by **Mulceber** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:08 pm

For some reason, just by looking at the felt, it looks more like beaver felt. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me. :junior: -IJ

Hemingway Jones · Post by **Hemingway Jones** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:20 pm

It looks real nice whatever it is.
To me, it looks like a Miller. But I am terrible at these games.

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:08 pm

Aw, HJ. That's too bad. I can help you guess. You want me to slip you a few answers?

whiskyman · Post by **whiskyman** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:31 pm

Dalexs wrote:I decided I like the wider brims as of late. My Akubra Fed Deluxe has
a wide brim and I'm really liking it.

Keep trying!

Is it the same deluxe but with the dye removed?

prairiejones · Post by **prairiejones** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:26 am

I don't have any idea, BUT I WANT IT!!

zohar · Post by **zohar** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:35 am

tawny fawn federation

Post by **Dalexs** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:00 pm

Ok ok, I've led you guys on long enough.
I'm actually very impressed with the responses but only one person here guessed it.

Mola Ram guessed BCF special. He is correct. Do a search in the archives for the references.

The hat is in fact a $12 cheapo from Burlington Coat Factory.
They used to carry them on a regular basis in the winter, and suddenly stopped.
I happened into one recently and found this.

I've always wanted to see juts how nice I could make it.
My last few attempts on these hats weren't that successful.

The felt is very thick. The brim was 3 1/2 inches.
I tore out the sweatband (or what they call a sweatband) and reblocked it.
I pounced the entire hat with some 200 grit sandpaper to take the thickness down a bit, and finished it with 600 grit.
The ribbon is some 1 7/8" that Fedora sent me a while back.

So even a 12 buck hat can look pretty good!

Adam, I owe you a drink at theFingerlakes summit!

Good guessing folks!

Farnham54 · Post by **Farnham54** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:07 pm

Dalexs,

You've done some nice work on that thing! I never would have thought it was a BCF, and for only 12 bucks!

Well done!

Cheers
Craig

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:53 pm

Good looking hat! Is it Czech felt, or does it say? Fedora

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:07 pm

Even if it isn't bashed to look like Indy, the front pinch has some Temple of Doom action going on there.

Post by **Michaelson** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:21 pm

Fedora wrote:Good looking hat! Is it Czech felt, or does it say? Fedora

I thought they were all Czech felt, Fedora. Was there another source?

I got to see two at the Knoxville Burlington CF store when they were introduced, but unfortunately they were to small, and no more were ordered, so I missed out on picking one up. For the price, I was quite impressed.

Regards! Michaelson

rick5150 · Post by **rick5150** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:54 pm

Hey Dalexs, which BCF did you go to?

Minnesota Jones · Post by **Minnesota Jones** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:16 pm

I REALLY like that color. If you ever get bored with it, I'm a 7 1/8....

Daniel Riser · Post by **Daniel Riser** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:12 pm

I always thought those BCF hats were pretty good, especially for that price. Every once in awhile I am shocked to find things there. I remember seven years ago all I saw were 100% wool felt pieces of junk, and then, one day, there are a whole shelf full of fur felts. I was always interested to get one, I see it paid off for you.

Oh yeah... hello again. Personal issues have kept me away... oh yeah that and BOTH my power machines completely failed on me to thanks to the overrated firefox.

Dan

Post by **Dalexs** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:13 pm

Minnesota Jones wrote:I REALLY like that color. If you ever get bored with it, I'm a 7 1/8....

Too bad, I think the actual size was a medium before I reblocked it up to a 7 1/2. Sorry.

And yes, I do recall the tag saying it was Czech Republic.
(I think I may have said Costa Rica, yeah, right...)

The BCF is a new one in Revere, MA Rick. About 3 miles from my house.
The day they opened last year, I went pilaging thru their hat collection.
And like Dan said, most of the time, the stuff was cheap wool stuff. But every so often...
I've been on lookout for a while. But they stopped stocking them sometime last year. I just happened to stop by and saw it.

Glad you guys like it. It's proof positive that every cloud has a silve lining...
(or something cliche along thoses lines!)

I wish I had remembered to photograph it just off the block though, it had real Hoss Cartwright look going. Color and all!

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:40 pm

thought they were all Czech felt, Fedora. Was there another source

Oh, not that I know of. I just recalled working two of those up when some of the folks first bought them. I did not know whether this chain store was still using the Czech felt, or not. Regards, Fedora

Post by **Michaelson** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:23 pm

Ah, ok. I thought I had missed something.

As far as I know, BCF only had these hats in the stores that one winter, then that was it....at least that's how it was here in Tennessee.

Regards! Michaelson

3thoubucks · Post by **3thoubucks** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:36 am

Here are my BCF Tonaks. $12 bucks ea. for the brown ones, $16 for the black one, and it has a wind trolley, liner, and leather sweat. In order of quality of the rabbit felt hats I own, the Tonaks would be the finest felt quality, followed by Miller, then Akubra and PBBM Borsalino.

Plus Fedora, they have a directory of "semi finished" hat bodies at their site.

Bufflehead Jones · Post by **Bufflehead Jones** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:45 am

It was a COAT FACTORY and not a fedora?

Dang, and I thought I was going to win.

Indyjim · Post by **Indyjim** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:52 pm

Man, that is stylin'

Terrific looking hat.

raindog · Post by **raindog** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:58 am

3thoubucks, do you have an address for the BCF site? I tried a search but the site I found had no hats at all

Jeff.

3thoubucks · Post by **3thoubucks** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:16 am

Their site didn't advertise these hats 3 years ago when they were selling them.

Post by **Dalexs** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:47 pm

I don't ever recall seeing these on the site. I remember when the BCF thing came around, I checked out all available sources including their website. Notal of the stores had them. and the website never had them.

And the winner is... Burlington Coat Factory!

And the winner is... Burlington Coat Factory!

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