Club Obi Wan

He totally took my getting off the train look.



And i liked the grey better with the wider ribbon



That's all

The one pictured on the magazine is more appropriate for the 1950's than the Raiders' grey hat is. Your hat looks very nice, btw.

Ahem....where would one attain such a fine-looking piece of attire?

Is Adventurebilt making grey fedoras?

tony

I would venture to guess it is an AB since Delk is doing them for the movie.

Mine is my old Optimo.

As for the 50's... I miss the 30's

Is Adventurebilt making grey fedoras?

Yes, both of them Steve made the two grey hats for CS.

Regards,

Marc

I hope to see more images of that grey

....grey? -looks brown to me.

Grey hat? What grey hat? Those are clearly brown.
(I'm going to run and hide now)

Can you get Classic Style at Borders or Barnes/Noble?

TonyRush wrote:Ahem....where would one attain such a fine-looking piece of attire?

Is Adventurebilt making grey fedoras?

tony

Search for grey adventurebilt and you'll find some great pics.
If I ever can save up the money my next gear purchase will be a grey ab.

agent5 wrote:Can you get Classic Style at Borders or Barnes/Noble?

I'm sure you'd have gotten this, but the web-site is:
http://classicstylemag.com/

It is published by Michael Key. I think it is available at some news-stands but Borders and BN it is hard to say- even from month to month their magazines seem to vary.

Indiana Kev wrote:Search for grey adventurebilt and you'll find some great pics.

From the AB web-site:

"The Adventurebilt fedoras come in brown, gray, charcoal gray, black, moss, and pecan color (with other colors available on request)." (Hope Steve won't mind quoting the site).

Beautiful hats!!

I came very close to putting a wider ribbon on the gray hats. No specs were given to me by them. I was just told, it did not have to be identical to the brown hats Marc and I made. So, I sent a totally different block shape, a very old one. I gave some thought about ribbon width, and felt that the wider ribbon was more suited to the 30's than 1957, although I may have been wrong in my appraisel of ribbon width, and matching it to the era, without using that really thin ribbon one sees. So, to be safe, I used the common width, at least for the brown hats we are familiar with.

And as most know, I was surprised they even used the gray hat I made. Bernie, at first, was wanting a darker gray, but not as dark as charcoal gray. Personally, I like this gray better, that is, the one that I sent. This gray hat was always referred to as, "Indy's travel hat". Fedora

Personally, for a 1950's movie, I might have gone with an even thinner ribbon than that, and I'd have used a grey ribbon to match the felt. I find the hat you made more attractive, but it seems a little old fashioned for the 50's.

Some high-end hats were still very conservatively styled in the mid- to late-'50s, so a justification for a wider ribbon could be made along those lines. And I see Indy as a very old-fashioned guy, anyway.

That being said, I think the narrower ribbon looks great, and can't wait to see the magazine cover up close.

Brad

There is also this one:






which is now available on the AB original block and the Camptown Block (shown) too.

But there is IJ looking great in grey ! Hats tipped to Steve again.

Cheers

JJ

mtechthang wrote:

agent5 wrote:Can you get Classic Style at Borders or Barnes/Noble?

I'm sure you'd have gotten this, but the web-site is:
http://classicstylemag.com/

It is published by Michael Key. I think it is available at some news-stands but Borders and BN it is hard to say- even from month to month their magazines seem to vary.

MK had a distribution deal with B&N and it is supposed to be featured prominately on on their displays in the mens style section.
So it should be there.

Dalexs

Looked on the B & N web site and it doesn't show up there. I suppose it is in stores only. I'll have to pop into our San Luis Obispo store and see if I can find it there.

In any case, I've been enjoying my 1945 Metropolitan. A good all round hat.




Cheers!

Dan

That shot of Ford make's me want to get my
AB Grey out of its bed and on my head!
Mine looks very much like this.
Man...I've got to buy some clothes to go with that hat.

Cheer
Kilgour Trout

Yeah, I have had Indy's gray AB long before Indy had one.

I like it looks very nice

Since my brown AB was stolen ..all I have is my AB grey until my KOTCS arrives....and it's a sweet hat as well.

A hat fit for a CAD, Matt?

Did Steve and Marc make all the hats, like the gentleman's sitting behind Indy, or did they just make Indy's hats?

The other gentleman's hat is pretty tall and untapered. I would like to know that as well.

Dave

Mark Brody wrote:Did Steve and Marc make all the hats, like the gentleman's sitting behind Indy, or did they just make Indy's hats?

That looks a lot like a Stetson Stratoliner I have, bound edge and all. The felt looks just as thin too.



MJ

^The ribbon's too wide to be a Strat.

The non-Indy hats were likely supplied by a wardrobe company, and probably are vintage.

Your right Alan!

I was thinking of my Whippet! I'm not at home right now, but it's got a taller ribbon.

With my AB taking center stage, my vintage lids are parked in my closet ... poor guys!


Regards,

MJ

Did Steve and Marc make all the hats, like the gentleman's sitting behind Indy, or did they just make Indy's hats?

From my memory AB did just the Ford hats and worked exclusively with Bernie, Fords personal costumer. From what I was told, in this very scene may be hats from Barons, giving the reason they were said to have made the hats for the film. Not Fords hats, but hats for the extras and perhaps other characters. If I remember correctly some of the extras in this scene said they were wearing hats with the Baron hats logo in them. Now, whether they were from Paramounts costume warehouse or if Baron made them for the film is unknown, at least to me. Maybe someone has more info by now.

Serg and MTech, a late thanks for the B&N info.

Marc wrote:

Is Adventurebilt making grey fedoras?

Yes, both of them Steve made the two grey hats for CS.

Regards,

Marc

I made a dive in the deep end and ordered another AB earlier this month. I got lucky and was able to order a grey CS hat from the same set of bodies that Steve used for Harrison.

Mike

I'm quite fond of the 2-inch ribbon myself. I think a very narrow ribbon such as on the Akubra Bushman looks good, and the occasional pleated ribbon adds something to a rather ordinary Fedora.

Certainly through the 1950's the major hat companies would "customize" a hat in a way not possible today, so that if one walked in and wanted to duplicate a well-worn older model, it was generally possible to do so.