Spring and Summer 2008 Catalog
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Fedoras - Straw
How do you choose your straw fedora? By well-known brand names, like Borsalino or Stetson? By hat style preference, such as cowboy hats, fedoras, or safari hats? Or are you a material guy, feeling up everything in sight? The Phoenix, for instance, is an Outback in seagrass and linen (with a braided wax cord), while The Alejandro is a very slick homburg in nothing but toyo. If raffia's your fetish, then maybe Scala's braided Gambler would make you sing (and the crocheted raffia Mojave could well send you over the brink). If, on the other hand, keeping the sun at bay is your goal, there's none better than the extra wide brim of The Lifeguard.
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Some guys choose their hats by event: The Boater for love in the sun; The Pith Helmet for when the going gets (really) tough at the office; The Dobbs Rosebud (a snappy little pinch front) just to impress. As for colors, you can go dark or light in straw, as with The Torino Fedora from Biltmore, in black, navy or rice, and you can also combine the two (rice and navy in this case). Scala has a great example of a two tone hat with their Santa Barbara Raffia Outback, as does Biltmore with their porkpie hat, called The Milan Telescope.
There's no right way or wrong way to choose a fedora, of course -- although there are some who say the fedora chooses its wearer.
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