Raiders Turn Poet - Deep Sable Beaver

• Felt: Deep Sable pure beaver fur felt
• Brim: Dimensional flanged brim
• Ribbon: 1½ inch dark brown vintage galleon ribbon-band with screen accurate Raiders bow style
• Interior: Branded gold liner & soft leather sweatband
• Bash: Handbashed Raiders style (with the 'Raiders Turn' put in)
  

All our hats are handcrafted to order or for stock from only the finest sustainably sourced materials.

We work closely with our fur felt hood suppliers in Portugal, choosing only the highest quality fur felt which is ordered to our exacting specifications.

All our felts are preshrunk during the blocking stage to avoid later shrinking as much as possible. Our rabbit is pounced to a smooth finish and a coating of protector is applied to prolong its resistance to the elements. Whilst not as dense as our beaver fur felts, our rabbit makes a very fine quality fur felt hat.

Our Indiana Jones styles include our true grosgrain Indy ribbon which is accurate to the original film hats, still produced to the same specifications for us and woven by the very same machines.

Avoid handling your hat by the crown as you could wear out the front pinch. Holding your hat by the brim is the best way to handle any hat. We advise against wearing your hat in heavy rain. If your fur felt hat does get wet, shake off any excess water and allow to dry naturally placed brim faced down at room temperature. Never force dry your hat using any form of heat source. If required, use your hands to gently reinforce the shaping of the crown and brim. When completely dry, lightly brush to clean.

Our 2020 Deep Sable Rabbit Fur Felt has been redesigned as a result of our ongoing research and development mission to bring you the very finest and most accurate products to the originals as possible. The felt has been matched for colour, weight and density with a collection of pristine vintage Raiders era HJ Poets made by Richard Swales himself. This new felt brings us closer than ever before to the original felt, the perfect combination of quality, longevity and floppiness.

When measuring for a Herbert Johnson hat, please place string or tape around your head above your ear and across the mid forehead, completely circling your head. Hold the tape firmly, but not too tightly. Measure your head exactly where you want the hat to sit. It may help to either do this in the mirror or have someone to help for accuracy. Measure in centimetres. If your measurement falls between sizes, round up to the nearest half centimetre and/or email your exact measurement to our team and they will be happy to advise you. 

For more information please email enquiries-hj@herbert-johnson.co.uk.

A professional measuring service is also available at our Swaine stores on New Bond Street and at the Burlington Arcade.

We ship worldwide.

Delivery costs will be calculated based on the weight of each product and country to which the item is to be posted.

Due to the exclusive nature of our products we do not stock large quantities. Shipping is within 7-10 from date of order. If you would like to enquire about the current expected lead time for your order, please email enquiries@swaine.group.

Delivery time from date of dispatch is dependent on location; typically 2-4 working days for UK orders and 3-5 working days for overseas orders (depending on customs clearance and location).

Unless otherwise agreed, for sales made and delivered to customers outside the United Kingdom, the price is invoiced exclusive of tax and VAT, customs duties and any other taxes applicable to the products in the country of delivery will be payable by the customer and may be claimed on delivery. The company is not legally liable for VAT, customs duties or any other tax on these imports and cannot therefore be held responsible for the payment of these sums where applicable.

Our hats are carefully packaged in simple white hat boxes within a cardboard postal box.

The fedora, a symbol of style and rebellion, gained fame from the Prohibition era through to the 1950s, thanks to its association with film noir and gangster chic. The hat saw a major revival in the early 1980s, sparked by Indiana Jones and music icons who embraced the wide-brim felt hat, cementing its place in both cinematic and fashion history.