I don't understand the male vanity for a healthy head of hair
I won't do the comb over.
No head rugs or toupees for me.
Hair replacement.....too late for that.
Shave off all the scragglybits once every 2 week and be done with it.
Its all summed up beautifully in:
Bald Headed Men by Christine Lavin & SIX Bitchin' Babes
However, I do love my hats!
I bought my first olive green 'Akubra' feather weight at the age of 11 at the primary schools annual fete in 1971 for the princely sum of $00.50 c AU.
I loved that hat...way too big, so it got packed with cardboard within the internal band till I grew into it. A 59cm perfect fit.
The leather bands now rotted.
When the first holes started appearing, I stupidly patched them up on the sewing machine using darning stitch, so, more holes appeared!
It went into retirement a few years back.
But still takes pride of place next to my reading lamp.
Pride of place.
The bands all rotted:
Along the line somewhere I acquired another 2 'Akubra's ' another featherweight in black and a broader brimmed 'Rage' (a model that I haven't seen since the 90's)
The featherweight is starting to show its age also with the appearance of a hole at the front of the crown where it gets taken off & on
A few eyelets were added for ventilation and a leather cord to hold it on my head in healthy kite flying winds.
Another hole agggh!
The broad brimmed 'Rage' I kept for best with the addition of a woven ribbon and the usual band to keep it from blowing away....this time platted using #120 dacron with *ebonite balls on the end of the straps to keep them from fraying.
*ebonite is a hard rubber made with sulpher and is used for making fountain pen bodies and pipe tips.
In 2011. I was encouraged to purchase my first 'Tilley' in Canada as that what all the kite flying fraternity were wearing.
Khaki was the colour of choice agggh!
Mine got thrown in the black dye pot as soon as I arrived home.
I must say a practical hat, with its secret compartment for stashing a few spare dollars, euros or other currencies in.
See all the stated benefits of this practical hat at:
As you might have gathered I do like my hats....and I do like to wear them
I made my first hats at a young age.
Using old worn out jeans.
I re-purposed them in to caps....I'm sure everyone in the family got one for Christmas that year.
I still make lots of denim caps when old jeans have seen better days.
Here's one of my favourite cap I wear in the workshop.
Its more of a beret really.
In the quest for the perfect hat I decided to make my own fur felt hats.
Here's the first hat block size 24"1/2"
A steam iron and some potential boomerangs shape the brim.
The fedora a classic shape....trying to look like Indiana Jones
A pork Pie in a long nape fur for my God son.....
A multi purpose cap....can be worn as a beret or a peaked hat
A wide brimmed Pork Pie. the band is platted from #120 black and white dacron.
The Bowler or Derby originally the hat of the working class and now a sign of the middle class.
My current favourite hat
What a great gift, than to give your 2 oldest friends than a hat.
