Some Swiss watchmakers are moving away from “just” decorating the outside of watches with precious stones and metals and started upgrading the actual watch components with high-tech, high-functioning materials. Increasingly, luxury watches feature silicon components, or gold-ceramic alloys, to add additional functionality to their timepieces. Read more from Bloomberg (in the SF Gate). I...
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International Millinery Forum
The International Millinery Forum is taking place through Saturday in Wagga Wagga, Australia. According to an article in Monday’s Daily Advertiser, this forum is a gathering of ” the who’s who of hat designers from across the world.” As you can see, some very silly hats are in evidence. Those of you who like silly...
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Touring hat exhibit
Ooh! Ooh! The V&A exhibit “Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones” is going to be touring the US! The schedule isn’t finalized yet, but I know I’ll be keeping tabs on this story to see if this will be anywhere near me. Learn more about the exhibit itself from the V&A’s website or see...
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Hawaii makes surfing an official high school sport
Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, so it’s only right that it should be the first state to officially sanction surfing as a high school sport. Seriously, this is AWESOME — I can’t wait to see what comes of this!
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Old News: Johnny Depp 2011′s “Hat Person of the Year”
Admittedly we hadn’t launched yet back in March, but I’m still not sure how I missed this story: The Headwear Association named Johnny Depp their “Hat Person of the Year.” Even though I’m more than a few months late, I still wanted to pass this on for one very simple reason: I really like...
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September is National Hat Month!
How are you celebrating? Perhaps a different hat for every day? Treating yourself to a new Brent Black Panama hat? Telling everyone you meet how much you love hats? Changing your name to Hat Enthusiast? Okay, that would be a little extreme. Happy hat month!
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Man who popularized cigars dies at age 93
Edgar M. Cullman Sr., who headed the company responsible for some of the most recognizable cigar brands and who helped make the cigar cool again in the latter part of the last century, passed away over the weekend. The cigar and the Panama hat, of course, are natural allies. I wonder how much credit...
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Hat Throwing for Charity in Britain
Silly hat news! Ilkley, England will host the Second Annual UK Open Hat Throwing Competition this Saturday. The event will feature both indoor and outdoor competitions and aims in part to raise money for the charity Seeing Hands Nepal. The rules for the competition strike a balance between sensible and whimsical, for example hats...
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