Club Obi Wan

So, how many lids does the average Indygearhead have? Are they all fedoras? Gimme a total and a breakdown of the flavours and colours and materials, even. Just for interest's sake.

I try to have at least one example of each vendor, as I will not advise or comment (at least I try NOT to advise or comment) on someone's choice of 'lid' or gear item if I've never owned or at least had one in my hand for personal experience with said item. In my case, at this time, I have about 7 on the shelf (I believe) in rotation for wear. Regards. Michaelson

Without being able to sort through and count them all, I'd have to say I own somewhere two dozen hats. They range from a top hat to vintage newsboy caps to fedoras... Even an old German hiking hat (yes, the kind you'd wear with liederhosen) which belonged to my grandfather. Half of the hats in my collection are inherited from my grandfathers and they all fit. A good number of them have small brims are are from the 50's and 60's, but most are nice quality felt hats.

I love hats, period. I have a preference for wearing wide brimmed fedoras or newsboy caps (I have one from the 1930's) but I even have an engineer's hat and a scottish tam to wear with my kilt!

bink

I'm a hat freak as well, but I do prefer the fedora as a type - I mean, EVERYONE looks good in a fedora.

I have two brown wide brimmed fedoras (one a Tilly, the other a Robert Hall),
-a new black (Hudson's Bay Co.) and a 1950's brown short brimmed fedora (one was my grandfather's),
-a woven (modern) pith helmet,
-a 1980's Soviet army officer's cap,
-a 1950's Soviet army fur hat (which came in handy last winter!),
-an American army officer's cap (once worn by Charles Durning) which is complete with bullet hole and remnants of real (pig's) brains,
-I have a reproduction aviator helmet, which rests on my gold idol,
-two red fezzes,
-a shiny aluminum hard hat,
-a beat up straw Panama with tacky hat band.
-three sets of Arab headgear -they're not call turbans, but the tablecloth looking deals with the ropes to hold it on over the Kufi hats.

I have some ball caps which are crew gear from films I've worked on, but I don't wear them anymore. ...and I wouldn't be caught dead in a cowboy hat. Ever.

I'm sure I have more, but I can't think of them right now.

So that's fifteen hats.

The Adventurebilt Fortune and Glory will be the sixteenth - and best.

Oh, and, Yes I do wear some of them out and about. Not the hardhat or the Durning hat though. That would just be silly.

I have one hat: an Akubra regular. It has been all I've needed, but...
I am anxious, maybe overanxious, for one of Fedora's hats and I am trying to be patient, but I am hoping that I am at the beginning of his waiting list!

Oh, right, I have a toque too.

In my opinion you only need two: One really nice, clean dress hat and one well-travelled fedora with character.

I have a bulletproof Peters Bros custom that serves as my dress hat. It's clean, stiff and symmetrical—the proper gentleman’s hat. Next I've got my name in for one of Fedora's creations. I want this hat to have the turn and come with a much character as the Raiders hat had over its successors. It’ll be the one I wear several times a week and enjoy watching it age with as much grace as I do.

That’s my two cents.

You figure you're gonna age with grace, Mr. Falstaff? Kidding!

Hey, since you're a Calgary boy too, we oughta have a mini summit here soon. What do ya say?

A PB Custom, and anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Adventurebilt! :junior: -IJ

I've got an Optimo Indy in chocolate brown, A Herbert Johnson Poet, circa 2000, a DP crushable Indy(bleh), and a Stetson with a stingy brim.
Tons of baseball caps, driving caps as well.

Funny, since the hair has been thinning, the hat collecting seems to be taking a more prominent role.
I'll never wear a rug, and refuse to try any of those hair grow products,
that let you keep the hair you have....Great! I'll look like I'm going bald for the rest of my life, and paying big bucks to look that way.
Fuggettaboutit!
'Blues

Baseball caps.....we don't need no stinkin' baseball caps!

I currently own 2 fedoras - a Herbert Johnson poet and an Optimo London Grey.

I also used to own an Akubra Federation and a Optimo in 'chocolate brown'.

Just the one, true Herbert Johnson!
Actually I also have an Australian Army Slouchhat, another Akubra and a WWII M1-C helmet with the Easy Company spade on the side.

2 Federations -- one in use, one backup (in case of emergency break glass)
1 Akubra Cattleman
1 Irish wool cap from Hanna Hats, Donegal
2 Watch caps

Looking forward to acquiring an Adventurebilt fedora.

Cheers,
Harry

I've got

My Akubra Regular
Dorfman Pacific (it just kinda... sits on the shelf... that's the hat that I let people mess with and wear and whatnot)
Back to the Future baseball cap from Universal Studios
Black leather biker hat (it was a gift from one of my teachers... I don't wear it hardly ever)
Oakland Raiders baseball cap (Not a football fan at all, but I love the shape of the hat)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl baseball cap, given to a friend of mine at the world premiere, then given to me
Anaheim Angels baseball cap (go Halos!)

In Christ,
Shane

1 Akubra Federation Regular
1 Tyrolian hat
1 fur hat
1 beret
1 Official YIJC hat
2 Pipos (A pipo is a knitted wool cap)
A couple of baseball caps

I own

My brown Akubra fedora
Black Tribly
Black beret (Elsa style)
Summer straw hat
Couple of baseball caps

Headwear, owned by me:

Akubra Regular Federation
Late 1990's Herbert Johnson
Sailor's cap from my service days (white top & tally band)
Swedish Navy forage cap
NCO dress uniform peaked cap
Swedish Armed Forces field cap
assortment of USN caps and ball caps. My favourite is a vintage Georgia Bulldogs cap - nice fit and nobody else in Sweden owns one, I'm pretty sure...

On the wish list:

Lock & Co. Extra Firm Coke
Collapsible top hat
A nice, dressy Homburg (black)

So there.

[quote="Langpuss"]I'm currently hatless -

Langpuss hatless???
I guess Fedora is going to have to do something
about that!!

Hatman

All I've been able to afford thus far is a Peters Bros. Custom Indy Fedora. It may look like a dress hat, but I wear it like it isn't. Hopefully for Christmas I will be getting one of Lee Keppler's Raiders style Fedoras.

Akubra Federation -grey
Akubra Campdraft -mid-brown
Akubra Territory -santone fawn
Akubra Sombrero -fawn
Akubra Squatter -steel grey
Akubra Bushman -deep fawn

Others:
well-battered khaki Tilley T-3
Irish tweed flat cap- Hanna Hats
old USN watch caps

Planning on an Adventurebilt.

Bushman

Three brown "Federation"
Two grey "Federation"
One fawn "Federation"
Two slouch hats of the Boer's war (1899 ) from the British Army
Two souch hats of the WW II (British Army)
Two slouch hats from the Australian Army - the Australian slouch hat of the WW II is my favorit hat.
One cow boy hat of the beginning of the twenty century
Three "Herbert Johnson" of the eightees
Two "Herbert Johnson" from Replix - the Indiana Jones fedora.
and many others...
I'm crazy...
Regards

Lee Keppler brown Indy fedora
PB custom
Herbert Johnson brown Indy fedrora (Todd's)

Foldable wool felt fedora from Orvis (kinda Indy-ish; 39 bucks, who cares)
Unknown quantity of baseball caps (don't even wear them anymore)
Race car helmet
2 hockey helmets
Columbia sportswear baseball style cap with ear flaps (keeps my ears warm while shoveling snow)
3 or 4 Police uniform hats (don't wear them unless I am forced to- looks like a hat that a milkman used to wear)
1 furry winter Police hat (refuse to wear, doesn't look very stylish on me, think Gomer Pyle)

On the immediate horizon:
Adventurebilt 100% beaver brown Indy fedora
Adventurebilt 100% beaver grey Indy fedora

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's from the 30's thur the 50's. Mint stuff only.

Can anyone recommend a counselor for those with the "hat sickness"?

There is no cure and there shouldn't be.

Langpuss wrote: And Bink - you mean LEDERhosen. The concept of "singing trousers" is too weird for me!!

You mean your pants don't sing? Thanks, Langpuss. I took three years of German in high school (years ago) but never had the chance to use it, so my German is more than rusty these days. Ach mench...

bink

As long as you can say "No Ticket!" in German, you oughta be able to get by.

Here's what I have.

Akubra Cattleman - fawn - rain & sun hat, tough as nails

Akubra Down Under - steel gray- looks great with anything

Akubra Cattleman - sand - recreased to a pinch front & reshaped brim

Akubra Bobby -tanbark brown - cut down brim, recreased to pinch front & C-crown

Stetson 'Diamond Jim' - shantung straw, rockabilly style

Stetson Temple - sable - got new in late 80's from the great Meyer the Hatter in New Orleans, well worn and it shows

Miller Milan Straw - C-crown fedora, very nice summer dress hat

Serratelli Hat Co. 1920's buckaroo style hat - huge but light weight

Akubra Snowy River - Santone fawn - recreased to pinch front & cut to 2 5/8"

2 vintage pure fur C-crown fedoras bought from a great old local hat shop in the mid-80's right before they went out of business

Several boonie hats of various shades courtesy of Uncle Sam

One of these hats is on my head at mostly all times. Mostly.

I have at least a dozen hats. Everything from fedora's, debry, homburg, newsboy caps, etc...

I love 'em all!!

I knew I was forgetting something! My bowler/derby!

I wasn't counting my Akubra tophat in my count either. Regards. Michaelson

binkmeisterRick wrote:

Langpuss wrote: And Bink - you mean LEDERhosen. The concept of "singing trousers" is too weird for me!!

You mean your pants don't sing? Thanks, Langpuss. I took three years of German in high school (years ago) but never had the chance to use it, so my German is more than rusty these days. Ach mench...

bink

Gesundheit.

Fairly hatless since I lost a box in a move:

A (cheap) Fed
A cowboyish trail hat
Many, many, many ball caps for projects I've worked - it's an aerospace industry thing...they keep on giving me hats...

Somewhere lost in one of my moves was my box of mystery hats, including a hockey helmet, my grampa's old german hat (sounds like Bink's singing pants hat), a furry russian, etc., etc....(must have gone to the same place all the lost ball point pens go).

pbros venice pier
indy miller (blah)
official indy (blah)

thats all so far

Sorry to dredge up the old topic, but here goes.
I currently own:

Regular Federation - brown

Vintage Champ c-crown beaver fedora - dark grey

C-crown light grey fedora from Art Fawcett (Vintage Silhouettes)

Optimo "Indy Brown" Indy-style fedora in beaver/nutria blend

Optimo "Phantom Blue" C-crown style fedora in beaver/hare blend

Optimo "Natural Nutria" Park Avenue (center dent, wide pinch)-style fedora in beaver/nutria blend

Optimo Milan Straw "Havana" (center dent, wide pinch)-style hat

800wpsi Montecristi Straw hat, in a diamond-style fedora block (bought from our own Indiana Montecristi, and blocked by Graham)

A couple more lower grade Montecristis for yard work.

Optimo "Toffee" Signature Line C-crown fedora in 100% beaver.

Numerous newsboy and driving caps.


The next hat I want is a Homburg.

I went through my piles of felt and boxes and counted 87 as of now.
This does not include the ones I have in a closet at my parents house.

You will find many of them on Ebay over the next few weeks.

I have too many.
Way too many.

Vintage, modern, Homburgs, fedoras, Aussie, cowboy, pith helmet, four wool newsboy caps and just a bunch of various felt hats from overseas and here, some custom some spur of the moment.
Some worn to the point of looking comical some I haven't worn.

1 Akubra Federation Regular
1 Akubra Federation Deluxe in charcoal
1 Indiana Miller
1 DP Indiana Disney hat
1 Oiled Leather Fedora style hat.
1 Stetson in black (Fedora is currently working over)
2 bucket style fishing hats
1 Black BDU hat
1 Imperial Officer hat (star wars people)
over 80 Baseball caps
4 Knit winter hats (2 being return of the jedi knit hats)
1 Knit pull over ski mask (not telling what thats for)

Mattdeckard wrote:I went through my piles of felt and boxes and counted 87 as of now.....

I have too many.
Way too many....

Matt, how do you decide when you have enough? I have 9 right now, and I'm nowhere near being done. I can imagine that 87 would be enough.

1 black Akubra federation
1 Indy-esque fedora from hatsinthebelfry.com (seen in my avatar)

Akubra Federation Deluxe (3)
Resistol Western hats (4)
USN Aviation caps (5)/Crush Cap (1)
Newsboy caps/wool ski caps/baseball caps (Too many)
B-2 Sheepkin cap (1) and Military type Sheepkin Elmer cap (1)
Thinking cap (1) seldom used!

So how does everyone display or store their hats?
I have a nice wooden hatstand that holds my Fed Deluxe, a 'newsboy' style cap, bag and my temporary "cheap-o" bullwhip. Plus whatever my wife hangs on the stand...

My other hats are stored in hatboxes in my closet. I assume most do the same?

The Body count

1 Akubra Std Fed Brown
1 Akubra Deluxe Fed
1 Akubra Std in Grey
1 Akubra Std in Black
1 PB Custom
1 Lee Keppler
1 PB Borsalino Michaelson
1 Optimo Harley Earl

and one more that will surprise many (pleasantly I hope) in the next day or so (with some luck).

I'll keep you all posted.

Peace
Ken

zohar wrote:

Mattdeckard wrote:I went through my piles of felt and boxes and counted 87 as of now.....

I have too many.
Way too many....

Matt, how do you decide when you have enough? I have 9 right now, and I'm nowhere near being done. I can imagine that 87 would be enough.

I have piles. Time to weed out the ones I don't wear and narrow it down to the few and the proud.

I've got two Indy hats currently:

A Replix HJ and an Optimo Indy Brown

The HJ is that hat I wear when I know the goin is going to get rough because it seems he worse I treat this hat the better it looks. I wear the Optimo when I'm going less for "Indy on the streets of Cairo" and more for "Indy out on the town". I think the Adventurebilt I plan on getting in awhile will be my last fedora for a bit.

As for other hats, I have a newsie cap that I wear whenever I'm not wearing a fedora, countles baseball caps, and a really cool velvetish guinness top shaped like a shamrock but colored like a pint of guinness. I got it for drinking a certain # of pints of guinness (not surprisingly I don't remember how many it was) during St. Patrick's day in London a few years ago. After I got my hat, I helped a few friends get theirs (what can I say, I'm a nice guy)

I rarely go out without a hat anymore... I just don't feel completely dressed without one.