hi,

just wondered if anyone could help me out here - i'm want to buy a bowler hat and i have no idea where to go in sheffield.

anybody got any info that may help me?

much appreciated,

leni

You could try the 2nd hand shop on Sharrowvale Road opposite the Lascar pub.

There's a hat stall in Crystal peaks....Don't know if they do bowler hats though :)

Originally posted by leni
hi,

just wondered if anyone could help me out here - i'm want to buy a bowler hat and i have no idea where to go in sheffield.

anybody got any info that may help me?

much appreciated,

leni

Why? I'm interested.
Just being nosey.

He wants to be a Tax man.

I imagine a posh tailors may sell them. Don't know where tailors are though.

These people (http://www.charlesgale.co.uk/pages/christy-hats.html) sell Bowlers for £110 upwards over the net. It's not in sheffield admittedly, but i couldn't find any Gents Outfitters in Sheffield that sold them.]

Originally posted by The Cycleracer
He wants to be a Tax man.

Charlie Chaplin maybe?

cheers. charlie chaplin/tax man = no!

bowler hats are cool. Jack White wears one!

And i need it for this posh thing i'm goin to. Long story.

not cheap though, are they?!

I imagine they are quite expensive. Maybe they wear them in London. Saville Row?
Try a search for gentlemens outfitters on line.

charity shop or failing that just hire one from a fancy dess shop.

Originally posted by leni
cheers. charlie chaplin/tax man = no!

bowler hats are cool. Jack White wears one!

And i need it for this posh thing i'm goin to. Long story.

not cheap though, are they?!
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Posh do?
Long story?
I have the time.....

ok well here goes:

A mate of mine in London is a bit of a one for makin up stories. He likes to exaggerate. Anyway he went away to the states for a fair while to do this music course and try to kick start a career as a musician. he knew a few people and he wanted to make a go of it. But basically he sucked. He took up a career as a shop assisstant instead and spent his spare time tryin to make music in his basement. Eventually he got in with a few guys who had some talent and they made a few decent songs. They played a few gigs but never made it like he'd hoped. Their trade mark, so he told everyone, was bowler hats and bow ties. However his mates were heavy drinkers and in the end it was one too many. The 'band' split and my mate was left makin a crappy wage at the local store in a country he'd come to detest. However not wantin to be a disappointment to his family back home, whom he'd told he was makin it big in some small towns, he never let the truth be known. In fact it pretty much went from bad to worse and when he gave up and said he was comin home he somehow gave the impression that he was comin home with his band. He told me his family were arrangin a really posh welcome home do for the lot of them.He tried to convince his ex band mates to come back to the uk with him, pretend everything was fine and save his sorry ass. But there was no way that would happen. In the end i told him he'd have to break it to his family. But he got it into his head that if he came back as a shop assisstant with no qualifications in the music course he'd set out to do, his family would see him as a failure. He was in a bad way so i compromised with him, in return that he will take up decent employment here and soon tell his family about the truth behind his 'band' i will pretend to be one of the band members for a night. his family don't know me you see. It's at this point he tells me he's already promised his family they're turnin up in bowler hats and his little sister and mother are lookin forward to seein them in "full costume".

Anyway i managed to get him to tell his family that only one band member could make it and that we weren't performing! I'd do the bowler hat and we'd tell his family that artistic differences were splitin the band and we were gonna put it on hold for a while. That way they won't have to know about the drinking problems and the failed dreams he's coped with. His family really aren't that sympathetic.

I don't normally encourage lying on this scale but i do know from his past experiences that if he tells them the truth now he'll be in for a rough time. Best to break it slowly.

Which is why i need the bowler hat!! We could just change our minds and say we won't bother with it but it would make everything that little more convincing about the 'band' and there are enough complications already. Plus its a really posh do so i'd have to wear somethin posh anyways.

All of a sudden my life seems really straight forward.

Tis a tangled web we weave when first we plot to deceive.:D

Thank you for sharing Leni.
Wow, I have images of "Clockwork Orange"

Anyway, have a good time and remember the deeper you get in the worse it gets. It may be better to come clean from ther start and laugh about it after.
When were you all planning on coming clean?
Just get it over with I say. I lied to my parents before and it made me miserable. Mum never forgave me and asked why I didn't tell the truth. She was more upset than angry. Families are more forgiving then you think.

Well, that's another story. Back to the Bowler.... keep us informed.
Good luck.

sure i see where you're comin from, but i don't feel in a position to come clean for my mate, ultimately it's up to him. I'm just givin him a helpin hand at the mo cos he's in a rough way, and i have to trust him when he says his family might not be that forgivin. i've seen past experiences and their effects on him.

anyway the thing's on wednesday eve. And thanks, i need all the luck i can get (and as for the hat, it seems i can hire one.that's one problem slved!)