Fedora Hat storage

[Short Balding Guy]

The fifth only has in-store bought-Optimos. 14 hats View attachment 221081

Max; I tip the brim of my hat in your direction tonight. Your solution to storage reins supreme! I have some storage challenges to work out at my houses.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Max; I tip the brim of my hat in your direction tonight. Your solution to storage reins supreme! I have some storage challenges to work out at my houses.

Eric, I love Max’s hat safes, but your pile of hats makes me smile. Love it.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Those will be filled by my next Texas haul

 

[steur]

The fifth only has in-store bought-Optimos. 14 hats View attachment 221081

Your sense of order kind of makes me nervous and jealous at the same time. My collection is more like Eric's. It has the added advantage of never finding the hat you're looking for, but a few dozen other nice ones instead.

 

[steur]

Those will be filled by my next Texas haul

And onward to the next safe...

 

[Steve Henderson]

If you are storing hats on open hat racks, a high-quality air filter (NOT the spun glass kind) in your furnace/A/C unit goes a long way toward minimizing dust build up. And it goes without saying...if you smoke indoors, it will ruin EVERYTHING. Hats included. I learned this the hard way years ago.

I store most of my hats in plastic 4-drawer units. They are like a wooden chest-of-drawers, but much less expensive. I can get about 4 hats in each drawer if I stack them in groups of two. If it's a downturned-brim hat, it goes on the top of a sturdier hat to keep the brim hanging down. Just my two cents...

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Your sense of order kind of makes me nervous and jealous at the same time. My collection is more like Eric's. It has the added advantage of never finding the hat you're looking for, but a few dozen other nice ones instead.

I get really frustrated when looking for something I can't find. Patience is a virtue I don't have. Besides, I am a dentist; I better be able to find stuff quickly in my office.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I got a fresh batch of custom band blocks today, made from a conformateur tracing. Art Fawcett used to have that service; maybe Dave, his succesor, still does it. They aren't just my size; they are actually made to the shape of my head.
After a week or so, the sweatband adapts to the wooden block. Also, after you wear the hat for a while, the sweatband tends to shrink a little bit, so the next time you put the hat on it will feel tight.
If you store the hat on a block, it won't.

 

[johng70]

So my collection is somewhat meager. But, we got rid of the TV inside the armoire in our bedroom and I was granted most of the space inside So, now I'll rotate my fedoras and panams:

 

[scottyrocks]

So my collection is somewhat meager. But, we got rid of the TV inside the armoire in our bedroom and I was granted most of the space inside So, now I'll rotate my fedoras and panams:

Just a side note:

Storing hats upside down like that will eventually lead to misshapen crowns as the weight of the hat flattens the humps, especially on center-dented crowns. C-crowns and diamonds are not as susceptible. Regardless, I don't ever put any of my hats down on their crowns.

 

[moontheloon]

So my collection is somewhat meager. But, we got rid of the TV inside the armoire in our bedroom and I was granted most of the space inside So, now I'll rotate my fedoras and panams:

nice storage space.
everyone has their methods but I definitely don't recommend storing your hats on the crown like that.
I know some suggest it but over time you will end up with worn areas on the creases of the felt and also flat spots in the nap.
Store them on the brim if on a flat surface ... store them upside down if in a hat box

 

[moontheloon]

Just a side note:

Storing hats upside down like that will eventually lead to misshapen crowns as the weight of the hat flattens the humps, especially on center-dented crowns. C-crowns and diamonds are not as susceptible. Regardless, I don't ever put any of my hats down on their crowns.

I should have read this before I responded

hope you are well Scott

 

[scottyrocks]

I should have read this before I responded

hope you are well Scott

Yes, all is well, thanks. And it's good to have back-up.

 

[johng70]

Interesting - I have always been told the opposite - storing hats brim side down was bad. I'll flip them over Thanks for the heads-up

 

[Frunobulax]

Interesting - I have always been told the opposite - storing hats brim side down was bad. I'll flip them over Thanks for the heads-up

Brim side down, either flip the brim up or, if you leave it down, hang it over the edge in front.

 

[Bill Hughes]

Interesting - I have always been told the opposite - storing hats brim side down was bad. I'll flip them over Thanks for the heads-up

I use hat stands.

https://www.thehatco.com/Professional_Retail_Hatstand_Display_Mult.html

 

[belfastboy]

Interesting - I have always been told the opposite - storing hats brim side down was bad. I'll flip them over Thanks for the heads-up

A simple hat stand can be made by; poster board cardboard cut 5": wide and about 24" in length. Form into a circle slightly smaller than the inner dimension of the hat. A few staples or glue to the ends. The cardboard sits inside the hat and holds it about an inch off the shelf.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

A simple hat stand can be made by; poster board cardboard cut 5": wide and about 24" in length. Form into a circle slightly smaller than the inner dimension of the hat. A few staples or glue to the ends. The cardboard sits inside the hat and holds it about an inch off the shelf.

Except they need to be longer than 24 inches for some of us.

 

[K5MOW]

Here are some of my hats displayed on my hat racks.

 

[belfastboy]

Except they need to be longer than 24 inches for some of us.

I think the insert I put in your Borsa box was just a hair under 24" and perhaps tapered a bit into a slight cone shape. Although the posterboard sheet may have been 25" in length but whatever I did have to use the max!