Jaxon Hats

  • Jaxon Wool Felt Ascot
    EVERY MAN, ANY OCCASION

    Quality and Value are not mutually exclusive. These hats have been carefully designed and manufactured so that there is no compromise in the materials, the workmanship, the fit, or the styling. Because the world is getting smaller, Jaxon Hats is able to source the planet in an effort to bring customers headwear that meets the twin criteria of "Quality" and "Value". This is a new line, available at VillageHatShop.com in both the Retail and Wholesale sections of the site. This line will grow considerably in the months and years ahead so, if you are a hat lover, be certain to revisit Jaxon Hats on a regular basis.

sur la tête

  • sur la tete Bonjour Boater
    sur la tête is the brain child of millinery designer Susan Lee. Ms. Lee began her career in hats while, as an art history student at The University of California San Diego, she worked part-time in sales at The Village Hat Shop’s retail stores in both Seaport Village And Horton Plaza. Her unique style, flair, good humor, and stellar work habits caught the attention of management. As fate would have it, the hat retailer’s long-time buyer and merchandise manager retired to full-time motherhood at the same time that Susan graduated from the University. She was offered the job, accepted it, and the rest is hat history. Susan literally traveled the world learning the millinery trade and buying hats. sur la tête represents her breakout from buyer to designer. Because of Ms. Lee’s background as a retail buyer, this line brings together her deep understanding of what a customer is looking for with the fashion forward flair that is pure Susan. And to top it off (pun intended), these hats go from manufacturer to customer without middle distribution – what that means to you is great prices. Enjoy – be the first on your block to wear a sur la tête.

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Drugstore Cowboy and Hats On Beds

Those of you who have been following HAT BLOG posts will remember the short article where I discuss Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing and the passage where Billy visits the Mexican man rumored to be a brujo and almost makes the serious mistake of putting his hat on the man’s bed.  [You can still read this, “More on Hats and Cormac McCarthy", at the Hats and Literature link on the right.  It includes a short explanation of the possible origins of this superstition.]    

What was a small reference to this old superstition in The Crossing is no less than a central theme and the turning point in the movie Drugstore Cowboy.  After reading about the “hats on beds” superstition, a HAT BLOG reader asked me if I had seen Drugstore Cowboy and if not, that I was in for a big surprise.  Boy, was he right.  The drug addicted, paranoid, obsessively superstitious, main character so much feared the idea of hats on a bed that it drove him to murder [I think he killed her although I know it's debatable as she may have died from a self-inflicted drug overdose] when a drug heist goes bad and he discovers one from his gang had put her hat on a bed that day.  This action becomes the movie’s turning point.  Drug induced dream sequences featuring hats floating around, becoming larger and smaller, changing colors, etc. are an integral part of the film’s action demonstrating the power of this idea in the mind of the main character. 

Not putting one’s hat on a bed may not be as iconic a superstition as not walking under a ladder, or not breaking a mirror, or doing one’s best to avoid a black cat from crossing one’s path, but to many, particulary those steeped in cowboy culture, it is to be taken very seriously. 

Fred Belinsky

http://VillageHatShop.com

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