Winter Vintage Hats-- warm and classy!

What an opportunity for you to be classy while keeping warm this winter with a stylish vintage hat from The Vintage Hat Shop.

Vintage fedora with scarf

Vintage 1960s toque hat

Vintage faux fur Lazarus hat

 

 

 

 

Faux fur tilt cloche

Fuchsia faux fur hat

 

 

1933 Dodge and a tilt slouch hat.

Everything about this photo is classic. The 1933 Dodge, the setting, the gal driving. But my favorite item is the tilt slouch hat worn but the woman in red on the far right. Her entire outfit is so stylish!

Dobbs Hatbox Miniature

In the 1930s, and 1940s men were very particular about having just the right fedora hat.  So if you  wanted to give your guy a hat for Christmas you gave him a small gift hatbox which enabled him to go to the store and choose a hat to his liking in the proper size.
I had never seen one of the mini hatbox/giftboxes  before this past weekend. I was so pleased to find the Dobbs box in a nearby antique shop. You can even see the "For" blank on the cover. The box is 3 in. high and 4 1/2 in. across.           Currently available in The Vintage Hat Shop.

Dobbs gift hatbox

And look at  the proud men wearing their favorite fedora!

Manistee County Museum

Dad's country fedora

And here's Dad in 1953. I love that even though he was a farmer he wore a "country fedora". Baseball caps weren't widely popular on the farm at that time. Happy Father's Day, Dad. Thank you.

Men Wearing 1920s Hats

In honor of Father's Day I thought it would be timely to take a look at men wearing vintage hats. Take a look at  a photo from The Manistee County Museum showing the group of dapper men wearing boater hats and fedoras. I am thinking this picture was taken around the 1920s.  I wish I knew what is written on the tags.

Royal Blue Hats

Do you have a color that just always seems to strike your fancy? No matter what other colors you have in your life, you just keep coming back to that familiar favorite? Well, mine is blue, royal blue.

I love my collection of flow blue dishes.

And I was so delighted to find these royal blue hats to add to my Etsy shop.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/76323194/vintage-royal-blue-felt-hat-1970s-fedora

http://www.etsy.com/listing/76069727/vintage-royal-blue-toque-hat-pillbox

http://www.etsy.com/listing/78088036/vintage-birdcage-hat-1960s-royal-blue

Surround yourself with the colors you love!

Jeff Daniels and Grandpa's Hat

We had the chance to see Jeff Daniels recently at our local Ramsdell Theater. And yes, he did keep us laughing just as he promised he would. What a character!
But he did do one sentimental song and that was about Grandpa's hat. It was a worn felt fedora--what we used to call a "church hat". He sang about the memories that hat brought back to him and the meaning it had to a boy growing up.  And the more I thought about it the more I wished I had kept one of my grandfather's hats.  A hat that is worn enough to just fit a person's head with the worn spot right at the peak, worn from years of tipping the hat and putting it on just right.  Miss the man, love the memories.

Jeff was right, there's no other hat quite like Grandpa's hat. There's no other man quite like Grandpa. Wish I had one of his hats.