It's felt season once again, and this season's hat is Art Fawcett's version of a cavalier model in lightweight brown beaver felt. The cavaliers I'd seen in old Apparel Arts illustrations were small floppy hats, and, sure enough, Art's implementation is a smaller-than-his-usual-scale fedora with an unbound brim that should curl nicely over time.
Walking down the street doesn't really call for a hat unless there's a light rain in the forecast (as there was last week) but they are also very handy in an open topped car. I have probably written before that when the sun's high in the sky a hat brim is better than sunglasses for shading the eyes. And when the fog precipitates raindrops, beaver holds up better than other felts.
Like the rest of the day's clothes, hats should be compatible with but not match, and a wardrobe with brown, blue, gray and black hats gives a man the variety he needs to not match in any situation. On the day of the photo I was not matching my chestnut shoes.
And that's the hat for the season.
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Season's Hat
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Hello, in fall, do you put away summer dress shirts? If you do, do you hang and store them on the hangers or fold then store in the drawers? - thanks
Very nice hat! Thanks, Will.
I don't have space to hang my shirts. They are kept in drawers, sorted by season.
Nice lid!
I'm thumbing my nose at the season today...I put on my white straw fedora in celebration of the continuance of summer-like weather here on the shores of Lake Erie. My felts though are ready to go.
An off-topic question, if I may: I noticed that your jacket creases around the shoulders and on the sleeves. My bespoke jackets tend to do the same, whereas RTW garments are less prone to this. Is that sort of creasing a mark of bespoke? I must say I rather like it -- it gives one character, and makes one look less like a dummy out of a high street store. Or main street, as I think you say across the pond.
In my case the creasing is little more than a sign that I left the house in the morning without noticing that I needed to steam the jacket sleeves.
Will, thanks for the reply. You keed your summer shirts in the drawers. Do you worry flatting shirt collar? -thanks
No AM, I don't. They have a cardboard support inside the collar to keep them up during storage.
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