Club Obi Wan

Dear all,

I'd like to add some classic (preferable) oval hat boxes to my hats. You know, those where the hat is resting on a ring upside down, so that it's not moving forth and back during shipping.

Does anyone know where to get them?

Thanks,

Marc

I'm no vendor, but I found this link that might be helpful:

http://www.thehatsite.com/hatboxes.html

Edit:

Or here are my Google results:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=hat+box+manufacturer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

At one time I had the contact info for the folks that Optimo uses for their oval hat boxes. Ken uses oval ones? Or the square ones like Akubra uses?

I love those oval ones, but they are quite pricey. I will probably use the square ones later on this year, but wonder if they are really worth the extra cost. You wear the hats-right? I can see how they would be nice if you had a collection of hats, or some that you don't wear, and need a nice box to store them in. For the guys who own one main hat, it would decorate your closet shelf quite nicely since you would basically have no use for it.

Personally, I use them to store my vintage hats in, the ones I don't wear, and keep as an example of vintage craftmanship. When I was rotating my hats, 5 or 6 of them, I used a hat tree. You get to feast your eyes upon your collection instead of hiding them away in a closet. But that is me.

I have been asked many times why I never sourced a nice hat box. My reply is generally, the AB is to be worn, not stored. But, with that said, I do realize the bells and whistles are nice. And many would love the nice storage boxes. Fedora

I'm not sure hat boxes are really necessary. If you've ever seen the programme 'Jeeves & Wooster' you will see that Wooster, who owns many fedoras, just stores them one on top of the other on a shelf in his armoire.

If you have a large storage space a box is a nice thing, but for those of us that have limited shelf space the box would just go to the recycler any way.

This is speaking as someone that only buys and wears hats, and doesn't store them for long periods. Other's opinions will, of course, differ.

If you live in the states (Sorry Marc...) TJMax Homegoods actually carries vintage style hat boxes as decorative items.
Unfortunately, their kinda painted up girly like with floras and such, but they do have them. They run about 15 bucks.
And I've also seen them in a lot of thrift stores I frequent.
(I always open them up just to make sure there's nothing good in them!)

Hunter Jones wrote:I'm not sure hat boxes are really necessary. If you've ever seen the programme 'Jeeves & Wooster' you will see that Wooster, who owns many fedoras, just stores them one on top of the other on a shelf in his armoire.

Maybe I'm missing something but I think this would eventually affect the hats, particularly the ones on the bottom that are bearing the weight of the entire stack.

I wouldn't do it...but that's me.

Tony

TonyRush wrote:

Hunter Jones wrote:I'm not sure hat boxes are really necessary. If you've ever seen the programme 'Jeeves & Wooster' you will see that Wooster, who owns many fedoras, just stores them one on top of the other on a shelf in his armoire.

Maybe I'm missing something but I think this would eventually affect the hats, particularly the ones on the bottom that are bearing the weight of the entire stack.

I wouldn't do it...but that's me.

Tony

Well it is just a TV programme, but I'm not sure how affected the hats would be since Wooster is constantly changing clothes and therefore hats. If I had as many hats as Wooster did, I doubt I'd be all that worried about any single one of them. And I agree I certainly wouldn't treat my AB this way.

Ask Art.
Art uses really nice black oval boxes.

Thanks for all the input guys

I'll see if Art would help me out then. Do they come with the inner construction?

The reason I need hatboxes, it due to I can't continue to "borrow" shipping boxes from my daily job with a good conscience

Thanks again,

Marc

Marc wrote:Thanks for all the input guys

I'll see if Art would help me out then. Do they come with the inner construction?

The reason I need hatboxes, it due to I can't continue to "borrow" shipping boxes from my daily job with a good conscience

Thanks again,

Marc

Yes, There's a support platform with a ring with foam on top.
They're very nice boxes, but they come with a very nice hat.