Tom Landry Fedora

[ScottF]

This made for Tom Landry, game-worn (they say), autographed fedora just went for $2,000 plus the juice.

Landry Fedora - Heritage auctions

 

[MisterGrey]

Tom had a pretty big noggin.

 

[Tomasso]

Tom had a pretty big noggin.

7 3/8 ?!?![huh]

 

[Blackthorn]

7 3/8 ?!?![huh]

Too small for me.

 

[ScottF]

Being a huge Cowboys and Landry fan, I considered bidding. If it had been one of his older felts with grosgrain ribbons, my credit card would be bulging now....and I would have worn it.

 

[MisterGrey]

7 3/8 ?!?![huh]

Maybe not by today's standards, but, considering he was born in 1924, for his generation.

 

[mayserwegener]

Maybe not by today's standards, but, considering he was born in 1924, for his generation.

So peoples heads got bigger? My dad was born in 1928 and he is size 7 1/2 and I am 7 3/8. Not sure what happened in my case.

Could it be the small size vintage hats are in less demand so there are more on the market? Also more dead stock survivors?

 

[Sargon]

For about $1,980 less I got this Dobbs Golden Coach hat from the Tom Landry collection. I've never seen another.

 

[MisterGrey]

So peoples heads got bigger? My dad was born in 1928 and he is size 7 1/2 and I am 7 3/8. Not sure what happened in my case.

Could it be the small size vintage hats are in less demand so there are more on the market? Also more dead stock survivors?

I think, as a whole, people tend to be proportionately larger now than they were, say, 100 years ago.

 

[gtdean48]

So peoples heads got bigger? My dad was born in 1928 and he is size 7 1/2 and I am 7 3/8. Not sure what happened in my case.

Could it be the small size vintage hats are in less demand so there are more on the market? Also more dead stock survivors?

The average over the population has gotten bigger. My father was a 7 1/2, my older brother is a 7 3/8 while my son & I are 7 5/8. I'm the shortest of the 4 at now 5' 9.5", used to be 5' 10"! My brother is tallest at 6' 2". My maternal grandfather, who started this whole hat thing for me, was a 7 3/8 & he was about 6' 1".

 

[mayserwegener]

The average over the population has gotten bigger. My father was a 7 1/2, my older brother is a 7 3/8 while my son & I are 7 5/8. I'm the shortest of the 4 at now 5' 9.5", used to be 5' 10"! My brother is tallest at 6' 2". My maternal grandfather, who started this whole hat thing for me, was a 7 3/8 & he was about 6' 1".

I am 5-7 and wear a 7 3/8. My dad is the same height born in 1928 and is a 7 1/2. My brother who 5 years older than me and about the same height is 7 5/8 +. Also height and hat / head size do not always go together.