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We look forward to seeing you at New York Gift Show, August 15 - 19, Booth 8565 in Accessories.

We'll be showing wool and fur felt stingy brim fedoras, soft warm fleece, Gore-Tex™ rain hats, packable slouch hats, and more. Note: We will not be at the MAGIC trade show this week.

Phone us 1-800-452-4287 or see our wholesale showroom.

Lucky us!

Long time friends Ellie Mathews and Carl Youngmann included a visit with us on their recent road trip from their home in Port Townsend, Washington. We can't say enough good things about them, so we'll keep it short and sweet. Here they are on Alameda's Crown Beach. Ellie is wearing a stingy brim Ray Panama Fedora with a linen band and Carl is sporting our new Slouch Fedora.

Ellie's latest book is her account of competing and winning the Pillsbury Bake Off.

http://www.elliemathews.com

The 15th San Francisco Silent film Festival kicked off with a rare opportunity to see the sole surviving 35mm print of John Ford's The Iron Horse. Also a rare opportunity to see our busy friend Liz Keim and hand off a Slouch Fedora. Liz herself is no slouch - she is created and runs a fabulous film program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Liz emailed - "I love my hat. I dreamed last night that I lost it and all of these people kept bringing me hats saying, 'Is this it?'. I tried every one of them on but none of them felt as good as the one you gave me. So this morning the first thing I did was get the hat and put it on. I love it."

"Electrofishing in the East Walker River (Eastern Sierra Nevada, near Bridgeport) with my Department of Fish and Game Statewide Heritage & Wild Trout Crew to perform population estimates on trout, and the other with my daughter, Emily Lupine Weaver, holding her "first" (with a little help from Dad) trout on a fly rod - McCloud redband trout, Swamp Creek, near Mt. Shasta."

Jeff Weaver
Associate Fisheries Biologist
Heritage and Wild Trout Program
California Department of Fish and Game

George Maxe

"Thank you, San Francisco Hat Company, for customizing my new Riverz.com Delta hat! I'm never without it whenever I play golf. And I play a lot of golf as the Executive Director of The First Tee of San Jose -- a life skills program which builds the character of youth to help them succeed in life. I love this hat!"

George Maxe
Executive Director
The First Tee of San Jose
http://www.thefirstteesanjose.org

SHINSUKE "ALEX" NAKADA and TAKA IZUMI

Beams, Japan and Hong Kong

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• Beams, Online Shop: http://shop.beams.co.jp/
• Beams, Store Locations: http://www.beams.co.jp/en/shop/

Here's Citrus -Kelly Erickson's "anything you don't need a dressing room to try on" Tiburon boutique packed with tasty items - bright bags, cowboy boots, and of course San Francisco Hat Company hats - check out our plaid panama fedora on Liz Bundy.

On our way to dinner in Sausalito we stopped by to say "Hi" and deliver a collection in time for Opening Day on the Bay. The yacht club behind Citrus was all aflutter with boats flying their colorful pendants.

Read more about The Citrus Story.