question on hats
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:34 am
Where can I find a hat like Mr. Oliver Edwards wears? What style is it called ?
Thank you.
Thank you.
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I've used my green fedora for river fishing, the problem is stopping it from blowing off. Felts take an age to dry and re-shape. My go to fishing hat in the winter is a Harris Tweed rollable (a bit like the one you were asking about but with a flat top). In the summer it's a an all cotton Tilley T3 with the snap-up brim. The Tilley method for keeping the hat on in the wind is second to none .... and copied from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I think! In the spring and autumn, you cant go wrong with a Tweed flat cap in my humble opinion.Iasgair wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:39 am Thank you both very much. Over here, a traditional fishing hat would be a Fedora, just like in the movie, " A River Runs Through It ". Now I wear a Tilley. Great hat, does a fantastic job, but really not the style I like.
The price on the Ghillie hats are not bad at all. I take it these hats would be better for winter then? I was looking at the Harris Tweed hats last night. They look good too.
I bought the Tilley just because of the wind, it has a string to tighten up under the chin, and they are UV resistant which is a plus. I would love a Fedora again, but no where around here sells the classic 1940's style Fedora's, so I have to go online. The problem with that is, I like to see them in person because looking at them online they all pretty much look the same, but they are not. And most are really expensive. I could just go the other way and wear the western style of hat again, but the last one I had, and liked very much, ended up going down river because of the wind.Duckett wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 12:40 pmI've used my green fedora for river fishing, the problem is stopping it from blowing off. Felts take an age to dry and re-shape. My go to fishing hat in the winter is a Harris Tweed rollable (a bit like the one you were asking about but with a flat top). In the summer it's a an all cotton Tilley T3 with the snap-up brim. The Tilley method for keeping the hat on in the wind is second to none .... and copied from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I think! In the spring and autumn, you cant go wrong with a Tweed flat cap in my humble opinion.Iasgair wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:39 am Thank you both very much. Over here, a traditional fishing hat would be a Fedora, just like in the movie, " A River Runs Through It ". Now I wear a Tilley. Great hat, does a fantastic job, but really not the style I like.
The price on the Ghillie hats are not bad at all. I take it these hats would be better for winter then? I was looking at the Harris Tweed hats last night. They look good too.