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This afternoon I dropped my grandfather's flat cap off at Salmagundi in Jamaica Plain for repair. The proprietor expects to be able to patch it and replace the reinforcement inside the upper portion of cloth, which turns out not to be the same as the visor. It dates from the 1950's and was made by one particular company in New Jersey, although my grandfather could have bought it anywhere. I should get it back in two to three weeks. In the meantime I have no hat and it is very disorienting, not to mention—in the current weather—cold. I will have to figure out something. My broad-brimmed straw hat of the last eight years finally gave up the ghost last winter when Autolycus used it as a bed. There was no way for the duct tape to survive that much fur.
(I had a nice time walking around Centre Street with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel. We will have to come back for the bookstore on Green Street some non-Sunday when it doesn't close at six o'clock.)
In the meantime, I have learned the reason that sharp flashes of pain have been startling up my left arm from the elbow at frequent intervals since I woke up on Friday: I have somehow strained or inflamed the biceps tendon. I am back to my old friend Ace bandage and regular application of cold and heat. I keep finding parts of my body I didn't know I could break. I have new books, though, and I don't need two working elbows to read them.
(I had a nice time walking around Centre Street with
derspatchel. We will have to come back for the bookstore on Green Street some non-Sunday when it doesn't close at six o'clock.)In the meantime, I have learned the reason that sharp flashes of pain have been startling up my left arm from the elbow at frequent intervals since I woke up on Friday: I have somehow strained or inflamed the biceps tendon. I am back to my old friend Ace bandage and regular application of cold and heat. I keep finding parts of my body I didn't know I could break. I have new books, though, and I don't need two working elbows to read them.
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Sorry to hear about the pain and hope it abates soon.
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Thank you! I look forward to finding out what kind of a tweed patch it returns with.
Sorry to hear about the pain and hope it abates soon.
Also much appreciated. I have Tylenol.
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Thank you! I had always wondered.
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Nine
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From earlier this week, Patrick Leigh Fermor's Kidnapping a General: The Kriepe Operation in Crete (2013) and M.T. Anderson's Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015); from Raven Used Books this afternoon, Noralee Frankel's Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee (2010). They are holding two more books for me while I try to figure out if I can come up with the money after paying up front for the hat repair (and then dinner out with
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Nine
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Porter Square Books. My mother thought she had purchased the latter for me, because it was so obviously something that I would enjoy, but it turned out she hadn't. Either way, I get the fun of reading it.
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You've got me looking at my cap to check how it's made. There's some sort of stiffening in the peak but it doesn't feel like wood. I guess it's plastic but I'm not unstitching it to find out. Of course my cap isn't anything like as old as yours- though it does claim to be made of REAL Yorkshire tweed.
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Thank you. I was becoming very worried about it.
There's some sort of stiffening in the peak but it doesn't feel like wood. I guess it's plastic but I'm not unstitching it to find out.
The proprietor of Salmagundi said they are usually plastic nowadays; he said he could try to retain the original wood if I really wanted, but I don't think I have that much of an attachment to the material—I told him to do whatever has the best chance of succeeding. The cap itself is the important thing.
Of course my cap isn't anything like as old as yours- though it does claim to be made of REAL Yorkshire tweed.
That's not chopped liver!
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I'm so glad you're getting the hat repaired!
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I am afraid they once restored a hat from the Civil War, so I am not a legend, but the proprietor was still pretty impressed to see it.
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I was mighty impressed the proprietor could identify the hat's origin from the tag, which to my recollection didn't have "New Jersey" written on it. If indeed the tag did have that then it's slightly less impressive, but the fellow really knew his stuff all around.
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Mow.
If indeed the tag did have that then it's slightly less impressive, but the fellow really knew his stuff all around.
It had the very faded company logo on it, which he seemed to place at a glance. I was impressed. I am very happy that hat shops still exist which engage in this kind of repair and restoration.
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You're welcome. Also, yikes. Feel better soon.
I'm so glad you're getting the hat repaired!
Thank you!
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These are important things!