Wild Hats

A few years ago, I moved to New Mexico. The home I bought is at 7,000 feet above sea level where the air is thinner than at sea level.

Since the air is thinner, I felt it prudent to buy myself a cowboy style hat to keep dangerous rays of the sun from giving me skin cancer. A cowboy style hat offers more protection than a baseball cap. The back of one's neck is not protected by baseball caps. 

The hat I bought was directly through the Stetson company. The hat I chose was a few hundred dollars, but it is of quality material and well made. It still looks as good as the day it arrived. Plus, it keeps my head warmer during winter months than a baseball cap does.

There's a "feller" from Louisville, Kentucky who makes custom hats. The business name is Wild Hats.

I've been seeing their Facebook posts on different hats they make. The guy featured seems quite talented and makes hats to customer specifications. 

Here's a video:

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From the Wild Hats website:

Welcome future WILD HAT FAMILY.  So you stumbled upon us. Maybe you saw one of our hats out in the world. Maybe a friend told you about us. Maybe it was me talking to you in sunglasses on instagram and you thought, hell I need a nice hat. Let’s give this a shot. Regardless, our response is the same, welcome to WILDHATS. We look forward to getting to know you, Listening to you, and making you something you have never been able to find!

WILDHATS is built by artists, by musicians, by rebels, by the ones with a wildstreak. But what we share in common is we are all bespoke hat makers. Now this term gets thrown around a lot. “Custom hat maker”.  While we agree anyone can make a hat. To make something that’s truly bespoke you have to do something that is severely lacking in the market. Which is to listen. That’s what we specialize in. We listen to what you want, we listen to what you don’t want. Then we act. Pretty simple, and it works for us and you every time. We don’t let our ego get in the way of making you what you are looking for. 

Regarding the why? Well sometimes you just start doing something and you don’t stop. Maybe you have known this feeling in your life. An itch you couldn’t scratch, so you kept scratching and years later here we are. Still scratching. We just have a passion for protecting history. The old ways of doing things. When Quality mattered. So that’s our goal. To make you something timeless and to preserve anything that has stood the test of time. 

Our story goes much deeper than this, but if we have piqued your curiosity, reach out via the many outlets this website has to offer and let’s share life stories and make some one of a kind art together. 

Cheers Y’all!

-WildHats

If you are interested in getting a custom-made hat, their website is accessible here. 

Lujan Grisham's New Career: Rodeo Clown

Hopefully, when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defeated tomorrow, she can begin a new career as a rodeo clown. We have plenty of rodeos around New Mexico and surrounding states for her to get plenty of work. 

Well, she already has the clothes for the position!

Case in point:

 

Tokyo Cheapo's "Top 10 Cheap and Free Things To Do In Harajuku"

Above, JR Harajuku Station. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Tokyo is a city comprised of wards of differing character and Harajuku is one such area of the city that visitors should take a look-see.

Harajuku is a pop-culture hub and is noted for youth culture fashions.

Above, an interesting sign at the entrance to a shopping mall in Harajuku. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Tokyo Cheapo has an article on "Top 10 Cheap and Free Things To Do In Harajuku".

They begin it with:

When I first moved to Tokyo, I was living on US$9.02* a day while renting half a room in the cheapest-of-cheap share houses. I didn’t care though—this is one of those special few cosmopolitan cities where you can experience the best of it for free, if you know where to look. With that in mind, I’ve compiled a list of low-cost and free things to do in Harajuku—pop culture hub and stomping ground of Tokyo’s most fashionable trendsetters.

Above, Spider-Man scales a Harajuku building. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

To read more, go here.

Why Is This?

Why have we gone from this:

Above, Sean Connery in Dr. No.

To This?

Brand-new Gianfranco Ties

Last week, I reported that I assisted Asya with a photo shoot she was doing on a new line of men's neck ties.

Those ties are now available at eBay!

According to the listing:

A variety of 1000 brand-new ties to choose from, coming in original transparent packages. Geometric and floral patterns in different colors available, light and dark: blue, green, violet, grey, brown. 

Each tie comes with a handkerchief. Italian fabric design, produced in the U.S. 

Each tie is labeled with Gianfranco label and Italy design label.

I closely examined the ties and they feel great to the touch.

Here's more of them:

Besides being great-looking ties, they are only $9.99! Where else can you get a tie and a handkerchief for $9.99? What a deal!

To order these fine ties to look terrific at the office or out on the town, go here.