About a year ago I ordered and soon received my very first Indy fedoras. They were both from adVintage:
- one Last Crusade style in 'sable', 80% rabbit/20% beaver felt
- one Raiders style, in 'Raiders sable', 100% beaver felt
They were a bit too big, but I loved them and wore them both a ton.
In Autumn, last year, I received two hats from Andrea Tognarelli (The Vintage Hatmaker). I put them on and, maaan, they felt amazing. I looked in the mirror and they were an amazing fit. Only now I had realized how big and ill-suiting my initial hats were. Andrea had managed to get my size just right.
This spring I decided to ask him if he also reblocks hats and if yes, if he can reblock them to a smaller size. His answer was positive so I sent the hats to him.
I got them back only a few weeks later and now they were an amazing fit. He did a great job, even managed to save me the some of the original parts.
Here are a few pics of the reblocked hats:
Andrea works really nice and he is a great guy as well. I would highly recommend him to anyone wanting a new hat or help with an old one.
You can see some high-resolution pictures, as well as some pictures of me sporting the hats, in the link below:
https://imgur.com/a/v8BXDrG
As always, thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Bear
Reblocked adVintages Hats - Hats off to Andrea Tognarelli
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Re: Reblocked adVintages Hats - Hats off to Andrea Tognarell
Thanks Bear for kind words ! happy to help ;-)! if anyone could be interested these are my references: Facebook “Tognarelli vintage fedoras” and instagram “the_vintage_hatmaker”
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Re: Reblocked adVintages Hats - Hats off to Andrea Tognarell
My pleasure, man! You deserve it!
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Re: Reblocked adVintages Hats - Hats off to Andrea Tognarell
How much did full-reblock cost? I have a 4 year old Garrison hat in need of reblocking, since David is now on sabbatical.
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Re: Reblocked adVintages Hats - Hats off to Andrea Tognarell
Pffff, I payed €125 for both hats and shipping... You can ask Andrea directly, though.
Depends if you need new lining, sweatband, etc....
Cheers,
Bear
Depends if you need new lining, sweatband, etc....
Cheers,
Bear