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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: SharpsNitro]
      #256349 - 07/11/14 05:18 AM

I use a Tilley hat.

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older safari hat [Re: SharpsNitro]
      #256715 - 14/11/14 12:43 PM

I have a heavy felt safari hat with a striped cloth band and no vent holes. Excellent condition. The brim is 4" wide and the crown is about 5" high and the felt is 1/10" thick

it is the most elegant I have seen. Similar ones appear in early Karen Blixen photos and pictures of Afrikaaners in the Boer War.

I have a 1932 Army & Navy catalogue, but under tropical clothes they show only pith helmets

I've tried to post images and failed but if someone will send me an email (dt5745@telus.net) I'll send images and ask that they be posted.

I would like to know more about this hat particularly its age and maker

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Re: older safari hat [Re: 12tar]
      #256724 - 14/11/14 02:30 PM

I 'd like to see that hat. Email me Nitro AT NitroExpress.com

I am not sure when I will get to it, may straight away, maybe later, as things are a bit hectic at the moment. But will post it up.

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: ozhunter]
      #256728 - 14/11/14 02:49 PM

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Nice hat BUT at $930 I think Ill pass.




Ha ha, I did not see the price tag when re-posting the images of those hats.

I think I will get some Akubra's rebadged as "Nitro Express" hats. That has got to add at least a ZERO behind the previous price, don't you think?

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #256729 - 14/11/14 02:52 PM

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Quote:

Nice hat BUT at $930 I think Ill pass.




Ha ha, I did not see the price tag when re-posting the images of those hats.

I think I will get some Akubra's rebadged as "Nitro Express" hats. That has got to add at least a ZERO behind the previous price, don't you think?




Looking at those hats again, from Hollywood, to me that big ribbon hat band is a bit totally gay ...

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #256750 - 14/11/14 11:52 PM

For what it´s worth, my very old and battered hat, a fair bit fashioned by me as you can tell Lining has gone, the staining on the inside looks like a rugby players jockstrap but the band is from an Ostrich I shot in SA, the .500 Woodleigh from my Buff in the Selous and the partridge feather from a shoot in the UK. It has also fished with me on 4 continents, memories. I´d hate to lose it





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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #256983 - 19/11/14 09:48 PM

My safari hat is a modern rendition of the Giggle Hat, otherwise known in military speak as Hats, Rags, Rediculous. Also a Barmah Squashy hat. It is made of thin Kangaroo leather.

Like John said both these have the top of the hat sitting on the top of your head. Still use and prefer the old Sloutch hat in hot open places.

My Hats rags rediculous.


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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: Rule303]
      #257003 - 20/11/14 08:43 AM

Used to wear an aussie bush hat....now opted for a lightweight canvas hat from Rouge (South Africa)

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: pondoro62]
      #260133 - 08/02/15 03:20 PM

For many years just wore a truckers cap of various makes. Last safari I bought a ventilated and leather style 3c1 Rogue from So. Africa. I like it very much,shades yet cool. No problem with a scope. Bought it in Bulawayo.

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: zimhunter]
      #263264 - 08/04/15 08:43 AM

Adding the photo here. Worn on my last African safari in 2006, and to the Territory and many other hunts down South.



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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: SharpsNitro]
      #263283 - 08/04/15 04:12 PM

The price of those Out of Africa and Quartermain hats is over the Top !

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: 500Boswell]
      #264665 - 07/05/15 05:34 PM






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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: ozhunter]
      #264669 - 07/05/15 10:29 PM

Can't beat the old Akubra, except when there is 2 of them

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: BB416]
      #264670 - 07/05/15 10:31 PM

Damn it !!! Can't work out how to load the photo

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: BB416]
      #342535 - 19/06/20 09:49 PM





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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #342536 - 19/06/20 10:28 PM

OK! this thread has my name all over it. For me the hat is just part of the outfit. When Im in the Teddy Roosevelt mood, it has to be a Stetson. If Im in an Alpine mood, its a Tyrolean style. When Im carrying a Martini, its a pith helmet; but my favorite was a Pig hunt when I was taking two friends from work who had never hunted before.

They were excited and wanting to buy everything that they saw on the internet. I told them I would take care of buying them hats. Orange was required for the hunt and of course, most guys wear some form of a baseball hat; but I wasnt having any of that so... I went to a costume store and bought us ORANGE top hats.

Now if I can only figure out how to post pics



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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: EDELWEISS]
      #342541 - 19/06/20 11:01 PM

jesu i have got about half a dozen or more depends on the rifle im shooting and the weather, will try and post pic of the lot lol

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: greenshoots]
      #342543 - 20/06/20 01:04 AM

Sorry - no picture:
My old hunting hat, worn today when hunting or shooting the BP Trail, is a Koolah, now dirty and slightly greenish from the sun's UV rays.
It is my fall and spring hat, but a little warm for summer us, when I wear straw for fishing.
Pretty much like this. I bought it in Ontario at a gun shop, 20 or more years ago for about $80.00.

https://www.australiangear.com/akubra-ceo-cruiser-grey-25868.html

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: DarylS]
      #342554 - 20/06/20 11:19 AM

Just an old straw hat did the trick on this hunt.



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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #342726 - 23/06/20 03:36 PM

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To paraphrase that great antipodean philosopher of my youth: "Now that's.... a hat!"

An exceedingly functional and (to me, anyway) very stylish form of warm-weather headgear. Unfortunately, in our current social climate, impossible to wear without incurring the international wrath of the politically-correct statue-topplers who are dictating what our values and behaviour are supposed to be. In other words, unless you're going out trick-or-treating dressed as Colonel Mustard, pith helmets/sun helmets are ganz verboten!

I'm just sorry I only discovered this fun thread too late to see many of the pictures, which are too out-of-date to be visible anymore. Any of the OP's still on the forum, maybe you could repost them so us newbies can enjoy them too.


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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #342727 - 23/06/20 03:38 PM

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Adding the photo here. Worn on my last African safari in 2006, and to the Territory and many other hunts down South.







Bloody hell! When did my brother move to Australia???


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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: NitroX]
      #342728 - 23/06/20 04:17 PM

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Interesting. But Denys Finch=Hatton almost certainly hunted in a Pith helmet





You're probably right there; I've seen pictures of him in a slouch hat, but far more in the pith helmet. Redford refused to wear one, saying it looked preposterous. Frankly, nothing could be more preposterous to me than casting a blatantly-American actor as a British colonial aristocrat, although I think he was a great actor in more appropriate roles. It certainly spoiled the movie for me, just like that arrogant turd McQueen totally ruined The Great Escape.

On a related headgear point, all the photos I've ever seen of Bror Blixen show him in a big slouch hat.


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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: vykkagur]
      #342732 - 23/06/20 06:09 PM

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To paraphrase that great antipodean philosopher of my youth: "Now that's.... a hat!"

An exceedingly functional and (to me, anyway) very stylish form of warm-weather headgear. Unfortunately, in our current social climate, impossible to wear without incurring the international wrath of the politically-correct statue-topplers who are dictating what our values and behaviour are supposed to be. In other words, unless you're going out trick-or-treating dressed as Colonel Mustard, pith helmets/sun helmets are ganz verboten!




Ha ha, all the more reason to wear them! Ffff them.

I've never worn one seriously. But will one day. These do need a proper chin strap added to them.

Quote:

I'm just sorry I only discovered this fun thread too late to see many of the pictures, which are too out-of-date to be visible anymore. Any of the OP's still on the forum, maybe you could repost them so us newbies can enjoy them too.




Some of the images were hotlinks from retailer sites that I linked to here. I might have a look to see if they can be reposted. I would have some of my images stored on another PC, which might be out of action at the moment.

People won't be able to edit their old posts. But can post new photos on new posts easily enough. Keep the thread going.

I have a lot more pith helmets to show as well.

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: vykkagur]
      #342733 - 23/06/20 06:12 PM

Quote:

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Adding the photo here. Worn on my last African safari in 2006, and to the Territory and many other hunts down South.







Bloody hell! When did my brother move to Australia???




AND looks like Marrakai sometimes.

And a safari hunter/Senior Civil servant in the UK who was castigated by the tabloids. I got in contact with the guy.

And a famous hunter named Baker in India or Sri Lanka. Sir Samuel Baker.

And sometimes like actor Oliver Reid. Sometimes. I wish more times, particularly all the chicks.

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Re: Safari Hats - show us yours! [Re: vykkagur]
      #342734 - 23/06/20 06:20 PM

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Interesting. But Denys Finch=Hatton almost certainly hunted in a Pith helmet





You're probably right there; I've seen pictures of him in a slouch hat, but far more in the pith helmet. Redford refused to wear one, saying it looked preposterous. Frankly, nothing could be more preposterous to me than casting a blatantly-American actor as a British colonial aristocrat, although I think he was a great actor in more appropriate roles. It certainly spoiled the movie for me, just like that arrogant turd McQueen totally ruined The Great Escape.

On a related headgear point, all the photos I've ever seen of Bror Blixen show him in a big slouch hat.




Finch-Hatton, 100% a pith helmet.

Redford tried to do Colonial Brit but couldn't do it. So we get some sort of 1960's attitude and laid back American "style" used for Finch-Hatton.

I really enjoyed the movie, and still do, but Redford is such a distraction with the "modern rebel", "modern free spirit" BS it distracts so much from the movie.

And the Bror Blixen character is destroyed and demonised. Bror was a very popular and liked man. Not an arsehole.

As for affairs, all the aristocrats got up to them.

Karen Blixen bankrupted herself with her spending. She would go to Paris and buy entire collections of clothing and dresses from Paris designer houses. Imagine doing that today. Spent about 110,000 pounds of her families money keeping the farm financed. And her other spending. Imagine that sort of money today.

Her books are not non fiction but often a collection of semi fictional stories. Same based on fact, some completely fiction. Like Kamukli (splg?) , the African boy with the sick leg. Completely a fictional story.

Still an interesting period. And I do like her stories and writing.

Wear the hats!

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