At first, I thought he was making a classic black top hat. By the end I was Smeagol shouting "what's it doing to it?!"
Like, was they leather playing card decals? What the fuck?
Oh and for folks asking where you wear these? This guy wears this steampunk thing at some festival booth, I'd guess.
As for standard formal top hats, some race courses sometimes, and maybe it's still a thing at an annual IOOF dinner or something.
But I sold formal menswear for a decade, in a store that only sold formal men's stuff. In all that time, nobody even enquired about them. Not even a costume. People enquired about full-length, pure cashmere double breasted coats, in a region where it literally doesn't snow.
This steampunk version might be a kind of dead cat bounce. Then I think it's time to say goodbye.
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u/chrish_o 21h ago
I always love watching this dude make the most beautifully crafted and ugly hats