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Ummm... my favorite is my balding pate. I hate wearing a hat. Having spent 23 years in the USAF and reserves building a fine reputation for wearing a hat as little as possible, I wasn't about to mend my evil ways when I began reenacting. I have a hat that I wear when I absolutely must. Notice my avatar -- I'm wearing a hat! Must have been a formal occasion or something. ;-)
Ron Myzie
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Is this really a fair question? Practically every hat I own is my favorite!
Low-Crowned Military Cap, Sheeps Grey Jean, w/ paste-board brim~Scott/Fenny Hanes Richmond Depot
McDowell Brim Forage Cap, Blue Flannel~Greg Starbuck
Low-Crowned Military Cap "Early War style", Sheeps Grey Wool w/ black peaked woolen band, w/ bound leather brim~Greg Starbuck
U.S. Private State Issue Chasseur Cap~Don Smith T.M.D. co
High Crowned Military Cap/Shako, Sheep's Gray Jean Body, w/ black peaked woolen band, w/ bound leather brim~Tom Carlton
Paul
Paul B. Boulden Jr.
RAH VA MIL '04
(Loblolly Mess)
[URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
[URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]
[URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
[URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
[URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]
Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:
"A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."
Young Russell Hufman's hat.........soooooooooo impressed
[SIZE="2"][/SIZE][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]John Hopper[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE="2"][SIZE="1"][SIZE="2"]Winston Free-State/First Confederate Legion/AoT
Member of The Company of Military Historians[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]
RAH VA MIL '04
(Loblolly Mess)
[URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
[URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]
[URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
[URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
[URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]
Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:
"A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."
Hey Curt I have one of those too. [ Posting #41] It is the desert version. I do in fact wear it......you ought to see the strange looks that I get and the most famous question of " Where did you get that hat?"
[B][FONT="Georgia"][I]P. L. Parault[/I][/FONT][/B][FONT="Book Antiqua"][/FONT]
[I][B]"Three score and ten I can remember well, within the volume of which time I have seen hours dreadful and things strange: but this sore night hath trifled former knowings."
Toss-up. I really like my Clearwater I picked up early this year--coffee-colored farmer beehive that I worked around on with a tea-kettle and got looking the way I like. But at the same time I miss my Joe Blunt kepi.
My Bender Pork Pie is my favorite hat. When placed upon the top of my head with an appropriate amount of "attitude", I feel it compliments me nicely. My wife, on the other hand, who is not a reenactor, nor has any understanding about mid-1800's fashion says it makes me look dumb. What does she know?
I also have a Bender uniform hat that I have tried to keep as clean as possible. I was involved with an evening public tour and was writing a letter by candle-light. I wasn't paying attention to my hat until all of the wax had dripped onto it. That was about four years ago, and I still haven't been able to get the wax out. I suppose it has been "aged", but it still frustrates me.
My favorite Hat is the black C********r Plug Style Hat.
- Jon Harris
"Dippin' Gourd Mess"
Jon Harris
Mang Rifles & Friends
Ora pro nobis!
~ McIlvaine’s 64th Ohio Infantry at Missionary Ridge 11/2019
~ Head’s 49th Tennessee Infantry at Fort Donelson - Defending The Heartland 2/2020
~ Wever’s 10th Iowa Infantry at Bentonville 3/2020
~ Opdycke's 125th Ohio Infantry at Franklin, 1863 - For God and the Right 5/2020
~ Pardee’s 42nd Ohio Infantry during the Vicksburg Campaign 5/2020
~ Day's Silent Machines, 12th U.S. Regulars during the Gettysburg Campaign 6/2020
I own probably 10-15 different hats, but I love my Starbuck kepi in the Arkansas pattern, with the homespun lining and leather sweatband, brown leather bill and flase chin strap with brass coin buttons....sigh...I love my hat.
My favorite hat would have to be my tan Dirty Billy hat (the hat I am wearing in my picture) that I just bought about a month ago. My second favorite would have to be my Dirty Billy Confederate issue kepi, made out of a tan/grey jean, with a oil cloth brim.
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