headwear

Each year in my house we had the ceremony of the HAT! My father would begin the process of buying a new hat and it took some weeks of trying on and deciding on what style and colour to wear. He would have had a field day in this shop.

Swordscookie Wonder if he ever purchased a Falcon Make or a Battersby?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons He might have before I was born but if there was an Irish hat manfacturers then he would have gone for that.

I think the ancient art of hat wearing should be brought back to the country. A good wide brimmed Fedora doubles as a personal umbrella on a wet day.

I must agree with Joefuz on that score. Hats are a much neglected accessory these days, except by the country music crowd.

Can't find much for the Falcon hats. Battersby was later merged into the Associated British Hat Manufacturers, per Wikipedia. With the whole organization closing in 1997, Mr. Brennan still has about another good 70 yrs ahead of him selling hats :)

oaktree_brian_1976 Mad, Ted! A Falcon Make Headwear paperweight...

That is just too, too cute!

hahaha this is lovely :)

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See www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/detail/C11.p09.Typesof... for another copy of this picture, with caption as published in May 1915 and additional description: "Three types of Russian prisoners pose for this group photograph: two Bashkirian prisoners (the men with the fur caps), a Kyrgyz (who is sitting on the left with the Russian army field cap), and three Tartars (wearing the dark hats) from the Steppes of Russia. They represented the diversity of the tsarist armies fighting against the Central Powers."

The style of Tartar hat seems to be a Georgian papakhi. Like an astrakhan, a papakhi is made from wool of sheep with a curly fleece. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papakhi

fantastic

Looks like a Grand Funk Railroad LP cover.