Orvis was a long time purveyor of San Francisco Hat Company designs, starting with roll up panamas, which they sold by mail order and in their stores across the US and England, then fleece, cotton cap…

"A2 Music History" on Facebook just posted a celebration of sax player and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steve Mackay. Steve was one of Sally's Ann Arbor pals who moved to the California Bay Area. He co…

Some years ago we hired our friend Patricia to call ribbon factories all over the country looking for antique ribbon. She located a ribbon weaving mill in rural Pennsylvania. In New York for a tr…

Bulasky Special Hat Machines were created in the 1890s and sold into the early Twentieth Century. They are beautifully crafted forged steel, strong, resilient, very useful, sought after and not s…

Mrs. Dewson's Hats was a renowned iconic hat shop on San Francisco's Fillmore Street, open for 37 years before closing in 2011. A charming and celebrated character, Mrs. Dewson was known as the Ma…