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If we’re living in an age of hats—and a glance around New York’s bars and clubs suggests that, yeah, we are—seems now’s a pretty good time to get one that actually fits. To the rescue comes Optimo Hats, one of Chicago’s premier haberdashers, who custom-makes its fedoras, trilbies, porkpies, and homburgs. (It’s all possible thanks to a 100-year-old head-measuring machine called a conformer, which, Optimo’s Graham Thompson insists, only looks like a torture device.) Until now, getting f itted by the guy required a trip to the Windy City, but Thompson is now in NYC for the company’s first (hopefully annual) trunk show. His hats aren’t cheap—felt models begin at $600, and panama hats can rise above $1,000—but the high quality makes for versatility: Since they aren’t pressed into one shape, you can tweak the brim and shape and style them differently depending on the day. Which is exactly what you’ll want to do when you’re dropping up to four figures. Optimo fan Johnny Depp (who wore a few in Public Enemies) can probably afford a hat for every mood, but you’ll want to stick with one (to start, at least). Good news is, that one will look good—both in style and in shape—for a long time to come. It’s a hat to grow into, not out of. Your fitted ball cap? Not so much.
NYC ICON
FIRE! Worn by TRUE Gentlemen.
Jermaine
this is that oceans shit!!! loves it
nordia
i love these kind of hats, i love to wear them and i’m a female
AFRICAN MAMI
CLASSY.
AnitaLTL
Now THATS fly!!! I can see you in this!!!
CECE_LTL
SO GROWN AND SEXY
Flawless
U, in anying is FOREVER FINE.
Flawless
Hey JD, just incase U didn’t get this B/day gift. SPLENDIDLY U: FOREVER FINE, can’t get U off my mind. Absorbed in images of we entwinded. Pulsating, titalating, throbbing all the time. Amateur yet, fully grown & continuing to pine. Stimulated, never ndgating how much you’re on my mind. Loving each & every part on a level that’s Asian Art. Wide open in this yd. drooling & breathing hard. Without a care or reguard. Touching U from head to toe, attentively watching as U steadily grow. Acknowledging your inner glow & appreciating knowing that I know. Posted up & 1 of a kind, anticipating while stating what is truly sublime. Dancing & prancing, aspiring to climb. Moving & doin because i’m so prime. In dispair I whine, forever on 4’s & how U do my spine. There’s nothing more splendid & U did it, with each and every thought i’m short winded. Think about it? Then admit it. Yeah, she wit it! Outside in the daylight with a flashlight, POSTED.
D-SWAUVE
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D-SWAUVE