Way back when I was a bochur, there was an old hatter in Jersey City that advertised in the Jewish Press, a one or two line add that told of cheap hats for Yeshiva guys. I made the trip out there on the Path train, into a dying low life neighborhood. The business was in a huge industrial building stuffed with every thing you could call a hat in every color of the rainbow. He must have serviced the movie industry and the Mardi Gras as well. Still, true to the add, he had Yeshivish, and MO hats (time was when lots of MOs wore hats). For $12 and $15 I got two hats with Stetson ( real or fake I don’t know) bands and liners. One is still in the family as a Purim hat. It was real good stuff. I would also love to find old stock of the 3/4-1″ brims. Occasionally you see such an antique, and they are way cool.
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