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Fred Belinsky - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Fred Belinsky founded The Village Hat Shop in 1980. In 1997 he launched VillageHatShop.com, the first ecommerce hat seller. Berets.com followed. In the 1970s Belinsky was a teacher in Michigan.
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- Newsboy Hats and Ivy Caps
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] This is article #8 in a series on Iconic Hats. It joins The Top Hat, The Bowler, The Fedora, The Cowboy Hat, The Beret, The Baseball Cap, and The Fez. Newsboy caps and ivy caps - variously known as flat caps, baker boy hats, driving caps, golf caps, English caps, eight-quarter caps, etc. - date to pre-World War I and historically are associated with the working classes.
- Panama Hats: Determining Quality
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] [This is a companion piece to the article entitled "Panama Montecristi Fino Hats" where I discuss the pros and cons of purchasing a fine Panama hat in an unblocked state.] If you've ever walked into one of those stores with big signs reading "Persian Rugs: 50% to 75% Off" and tried to get a handle on the value of these "fine works of art" and "products resulting from months of labor by great artisans" where "knots per square inch" and "quality of the material" were touted as evidence of great value and where the upshot was that this $5,000 ...
- Bridging the Classic Tension Between the Sciences and the Humanities Or Handling IT Service Guys
[Business:Outsourcing] Running a successful business is more art than science. Of this, I am quite certain. However, understanding science (specifically technology and perhaps some math) - or at least being able to effectively communicate with people who do - is vital. This is especially true if one's business is Internet retailing. If, like me, you are more inclined toward the humanities than the sciences, successful communication with the techies can be a challenge.
- Why Unconditional Free Shipping is Bad For Us
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Free shipping and other retail gimmicks are not in the best interest of society. Individuals need to take their fair share of responsibility in transactions with merchants.
- Hat Metaphors and Similes
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Belinsky has assembled "hatisms": expressions, metaphors, similes, etc. These provide a window to understanding the importance of headwear in human history.
- Indiana Jones and the Fedora
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] The Indiana Jones movies have changed the hat industry. Hatters are awaiting a big boost with the release of the new movie in May.
- Finding the Bones in Retail Business
[Business:Retail] Some dogs dart and dash around in the fields like crazy chickens. They dig up the ground without rhyme or reason. Others saunter over to a specific spot with a kind of divining-rod witchery, and dig up the bones.
- The Secret to High Natural Rankings at the Search Engines
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Three steps for achieving high natural search engine rankings (that in fact are implemented in two steps). The author reveals the not so tricky facts that matter most to Google and all the rest. This article both simplifies and extends, albeit ironically, what needs to be done to get highly ranked.
- Iconic Hats - The Bowler
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] When you picture Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, a Rene Magritte work of art, the four major characters in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", or a well dressed British banker, it's a bowler hat, also known as a derby, that almost certainly comes to mind. The bowler, perhaps like no other hat before or since, stands unambiguously as a symbol for an age, a passage in western civilization.
- Iconic Hats - The Cowboy Hat
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Although associated with the American West, arguably the cowboy hat is not an American creation. There is no doubt that hats with big brims and large crowns had been popular in Mexico, coming to Mexico from Spain, well before "the American West was won." Historians trace the origins in Spain to the European invasions by the very accomplished horsemen from Mongolia.
- Iconic Hats - The Top Hat
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] The hat comes out at weddings and at big days at the horse races. The collapsible opera hat, also know as the Gibus, named after its inventor Frenchman Antoine Gibus, is still sufficiently popular that a New York manufacturer has a successful business today with this style hat as its sole output. And Uncle Sam, symbol of democratic America, for some reason still prefers a top hat--perhaps because even with all its elitist connotations, the top hat was still a move in the right direction from the crown.
- Iconic Hats - The Fedora
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. Clark Kent and FDR. For most of the 20th Century, up until 1960 when John F. Kennedy took off his hat at his presidential inauguration, men were not considered dressed for work without a hat.
- Iconic Hats - The Beret
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Although worn as military headgear in ancient Greece, the modern origin of the beret is traced to the Basques, people living on both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees Mountains. Centuries ago, the Basques were great fishermen and sailors, a fact that might explain the appearance of a very similar hat in Scotland. Both the Scotch tam and the beret are woven in one piece without a seam or a binding.
- Some Fun with Antiquated Hat Terms - Part Four - 1900 - 1944
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] The last in a four part series on antiquated terms about hats and headdress. About 40 or so obscure terms were defined via the OED.
- Some Fun with Antiquated Hat Terms - Part Three- 1800 - 1900
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] In Part Three, this article discusses the project of assembling lost or rarely used words that reference hats and headdress. Fasten your poke bonnets and riding casquettes, and read along.
- Some Fun with Antiquated Hat Terms - Part Two - Renaissance Europe Through 1799
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Belinksy continues his quirky look at history via the mining of antiquated words referring to hats and headdress. Put on your huke, grab your magnifying glass and learn some new words.
- Some Fun with Antiquated Hat Terms - Part 1 Ancient Greece through Medieval European Helmets
[Home-and-Family:Crafts-Hobbies] Belinsky mines for old words related to headwear. Who today is wearing a wimple? A fun read for lovers of words, history, and, of course, hats.
- The Antidote
[Business:Ethics] We - modern America that is - have become so damn impolite. We don't give people the simple courtesy of a reply when contacted by email or phone. The idea of acknowledging someone with a smile while passing on the street is at best an anachronism; at times it's even considered an affront. And being greeted when entering a store is less commonplace all the time. What are we becoming (or have already become)?
- Hats Are Healthy
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] As we enter the spring and summer of 2007, Belinsky encourages people to wear hats as part of a regimen for sun protection. The article includes data from the National Cancer Institute as well as a salient quote from an NCI dermatologist doing research at the Center for Cancer Research.
- Obama & JFK - Neckties & Hats
[News-and-Society:Politics] A comparison of Obama with his propensity to go without a necktie and JFK with his propensity to go without a hat.
- Panama Montecristi Fino Hats
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] Some basic information about fine Panama hats. Many people know just enough about these hats to get them into a purchase that they often regret. This article informs the buyer what he/she is getting (and not getting).
- Don't Tell Me About The Person Who Wears Many Hats
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] For obvious reasons (to those of you who are regular readers of the HAT BLOG), I subscribe to the Google News Alert Service where all articles with the word "hat" or "hats" in newspaper and magazine titles are regularly assembled by Google and forwarded to my email.
- Women's Dress Hats
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Millinery - women's hats - can be understood as a sculptural medium. At their best, these hats are equal to any other artistic expression.
- The Internet Retailer Conference
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] One man's take on the 2006 Internet Retailing Conference in Chicago.
- Hats and Children's Literature
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Why are there so many children's books about hats?
- Don't Shoot That Hat!
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Exposing poorly conceived retail store policy at Bergdorf-Goodman in NYC.
- New York City Restaurant Reviews and Other Matters of the Hat
[Food-and-Drink:Restaurant-Reviews] NYC restaurant reviews from a California, vegetarian, and hatted perspective.
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