This week’s Monday Mania sale hat is the Bailey Brooks. The Bailey Brooks is a genuine Panama hat in a putty color with coordinating grosgrain hat band. It is normally priced at $62 but this week only is priced at $45.
Have a great week!
It’s hard to believe but our fall and winter hats and caps have started to arrive. This week we received the first couple new Newsboy, also known as Gatsby or 8/4 Panel caps, of the season. Last winter we had over 200 different styles of Ivy and Newsboy caps in stock and we sold out of many of them.
The first is a wool blend Herringbone Newsboy cap by Scala available in sizes small, medium, large and extra large.
The second is a Melton wool blend, solid black, Newsboy Cap also by Scala. This cap is also available in sizes small, medium, large and extra large.
Both of these caps are priced at only $26 so what are you waiting for…get a cap on!
Aaron Hats has carried the Greek Fisherman Cap almost since the first day we opened. The Greek Fisherman’s Cap is one of those styles that has a constant demand throughout the year and over the years. We have expanded our selection of Greek Fishermans Caps to include all available fabrics and colors available.
I could try to write up a fancy description of the cap but nobody describes it better than the Greeks themselves so here is an excerpt from the importer:
“Since 1886, the Greek Fisherman’s Cap has been hand made in an ancient town outside Athens, Greece. For the past 27 years, Aegean Imports has been bringing the caps over to San Francisco and supplying customers in North America. This is all we do, so we do it very well!
While the Greek Fisherman is a well known character of the Western World, one does not need to be Greek, or a Fisherman, to wear our caps. However, a feeling of Adventure and Romance is a Must!
Although we cannot promise a good life if you wear a Greek Cap. We can guarantee the quality of the Cap for it’s life.”
Get a jump start on your fall hat collection with this weeks round of Monday Mania presenting the Stetson MacNeil fedora. This is a fur felt fedora with a 2 1/2″ snap brim. A great casual or dress hat. You can buy it on sale (this week only) for 35% off for only $81.25.
As I am writing this I’m watching the Alicia Keys Unplugged dvd. I can’t think of another artist today who displays such warmth, sex appeal, class, beauty and sense of style as Alicia Keys. On top of all that she’s a regular hat wearer. Personally, I don’t think anything adds to a woman’s beauty than a hat or a proper cap. Sorry, that doesn’t include ball caps. I went over to her web site and found some great pictures of Alicia Keys in a hat. Here are a couple of my favorites. In the first photo she’s wearing a fedora and the other picture she’s wearing an ivy cap. Both are traditionally men’s hats but this just proves that more women should be wearing these hats.
For the ladies reading this, go out and add a hat to your wardrobe. For the men reading, be sure to compliment a woman when she’s wearing a hat. She’ll appreciate it.
Now go out and get a hat on.
Aaron
This is the first of many “Monday Mania’s”. What’s Monday Mania you ask? Every Monday, Aaron Hats will put a hat or cap on sale until the next Monday Mania when I’ll choose another hat to be put on sale. The sale could be anywhere from 10% to 60% and on a variety of hat styles for both men and women. This week’s hat deal is on the Bailey Gibson. A great summer hat on sale for 35% off our everyday price of $62 making it only $40.30.
Be sure to check back every Monday for the newest Monday Mania hat.
Aaron
To use an overused phrase…what’s old is new again. Like most of today’s fashion it’s not new but rather a remake on a previous style. The same happens with hats. The Walking Hat or Trilby is an old style that’s come around again. I’m seeing many of our vendors creating the Walking Hat for this coming fall/winter season. One thing I like about it is that it can be dressed up or down making it a hat for every occasion. Just choose your color, pattern or material you like and you’ll find a hat that suits you. Take a look at some of these Walking Hats or Trilby’s from Henschel:
If these hats don’t have you feeling dapper nothing will.
Aaron
Seldom is there a movie that has an effect on an industry that lasts for more than six months. That can not be said about the Indiana Jones movies. Just last month production was started for the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones movies starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Jones. For more than 25 years the first three Indiana Jones movies have kept hats, and more specifically the brown fedora, an ever popular selling item.
From a press release dated January 02, 2007:
“For more than 25 years, audiences have been enraptured by the exploits of Indian Jones. The film trilogy — Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — garnered 14 Academy Award nominations, won 7 Oscars, and grossed over $1,182,000,000 at the box office. The films are among the most popular films ever made and have become a legendary part of film history.”
Harrison Ford is also quoted as saying “These films are such great fun to make. I’m looking forward to reuniting with the team and starting this new journey.” And “I don’t know if the pants still fit but I know the hat will.”.
For official Indiana Jones hats be sure to visit Aaron Hats.
On to the next adventure,
Aaron
It’s hard to believe but we’ve already placed our order for Mad Bomber fur hats for delivery in October. For those of you who live in cold climates and especially those who work outside in the winter you’ve got to check out Mad Bomber. They have got to be the warmest hats I’ve ever worn. Whether snowshoeing through the woods, shoveling out your car or just going to the grocery store you need to stay warm and dry. Trust me on this. In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, in the middle of winter when the wind is howling and the snow is blowing I always go straight for my Mad Bomber.
Here’s some background on the Mad Bomber company:
The Mad Bomber® Company is outerwear manufacturer creating unique products that combine natural resources with innovative high-tech fabrics.
The name “Mad Bomber®” was coined during our president’s unstable ski-jumping career. Trading in China since 1978 Mad Bomber® is the original and the world’s largest “Bomber®” hat manufacturer. Moving materials between Europe, America, and China we have truly become a multi-national company coordinating worldwide operations and promoting cooperation amongst diverse cultures.
Operating a joint venture factory in Manchuria reliant on thousands of self-employed Chinese, we are promoting free enterprise in China. Combined with our diverse international distribution network in Italy, Russia, Sweden, Japan, Finland, Argentina, America, France, Norway, and England we are not only promoting entrepreneurial self-reliance but also understanding between peoples.
Using hemp grown without pesticides and organic cottons allows us to support local farmers in touch with their environment.
We are a member of The Conservation Alliance, a completely volunteer organization that returns all dues, over $2.3 million to date, to grass roots citizen action groups working to protect wild and natural rivers, trails and land areas.
We continue our yearly donations to humanitarian or other causes: The American Indian College Fund, The Bluemont Concert Series, flood victims in North Dakota, sewing machines to Russian trade schoolchildren. Along with our winter headwear donations to the homeless we are a company contributing to our society and to our earth
Having built a new factory in Manchuria, where the winter temperature can drop below –30 degrees, we instituted international standards for our employees -the first western company in the region to do so- as well as international quality control methodology.
Counting down the days ’til winter….yuuuuuuuck!
Aaron
Lately I’ve been watching Man vs. Wild on the Discovery Channel. If you haven’t seen it before it features Bear Grylls as the host. He gets dropped off in remote locations around the world and shows you how to survive in the off chance you get lost in that, or a similar spot. The two episodes I’ve seen where he’s in a very hot location one of the first things he tells you to do is cover your head to protect it from the sun. In the episode I saw last night he was in the Australian outback where it can reach 130F with 100% humidity. So when you’re in the middle of nowhere and need a hat to protect you from the sun what do you do? Easy…use your underwear which is what Bear did.
Luckily most of us aren’t stuck in the middle of nowhere and we can actually shop for a proper sun hat. Besides the last time I wore my underwear as a hat was many, many years ago and I had too much to drink.
Take a look at some of these great hats that would make great protection from the sun.
Stayin’ cool,
Aaron
