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Photos: Borsalino Opens Branch in Flatbush

Italian hat manufacturer Borsalino opened a state-of-the-art branch in Flatbush, where their wide variety of Chasidic, Litvish and Lubavitch hats are on display. A few Crown Heights residents went to have a look, accompanied by photographer Itzik Roitman.

Photos courtesy of Shturem.net

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23 Comments

  • oki toki boy 73-76

    IT WOULD BE SMART TO PUT THE ADDRESS
    OF THE STORE IN THIS ARTICLE
    I HAPPEN TO KNOW IT S ON AVE J
    BUT HOW MANY MORE KNOW ????????

    • Pedant

      No, it means the hat vendors should and will try to move us onto different brands, which will be a lot less expensive. In a couple of years there wont be any obvious ‘best brand’ for what should be, in the modern world, a commodity item.

      Most people I know have moved on from these hats.

      When you wear one of them daily and through the winter without the ludicrous hat bag, you maybe get a year, mostly likely less, never more, out of it, and to pay 200$ or more for a black hat, of ever decreasing quality just doesn’t make any sense.

      Borsallino is an arrogant company (ask the hat vendors) and they are dying.

      We are their only customers so they cut out the middleman, because a distribution network only makes sense when you have a large and diversified customer base.

      Won’t be sad to see them go.

      Wont be sorry to see them go.

  • Borsalino

    Borsalino is the Rebbes hat
    It will be Very hard to convience us to buy a different brand
    We already know for years ( decades)that hats don’t last and we keep buying
    The retailers ( not Borsalino) were making all the profits. This is why they come to sell directly

    • Citizen Berel

      The Rebbe’s hat? I learned in Tomchei Temimim and never heard that idea.

      Yes, the Rebbe wore a Borsalino branded fedora hat. Never heard anybody, not from the ramim or the mashpiim or the bochurim that borsalino had any shaichus whatever to the Rebbe as such.

      I am a flag waiving meshichist but what you are saying is absurd.

      What you are saying about the retailers wrong. So utterly wrong.

      Borsalino is an abusive company in ways that you cannot fathom, as in sending defects and requiring you to keep them if you wish to keep getting your shipments….

      Go have a conversation with Reb Yona Gelernter of Crown Hats one day. Eye opening.

    • replying..

      To citizin berel: the shaichus with the Rebbe to wear a borsalino is very simple- since we are chassidim of our Rebbe and the Rebbe wore that kind of hat so we follow the same. the same way chassidim in boro park wear a shtreimel because their Rebbe is wearing that and they will not wear a borsalino.

  • Please

    Open a store that sells non-Borsalino hats; let’s keep Borasalinos where they belong – a high status fashion item (emphasis on ‘fashion’) for the conspicuous consumption seekers; let’s find affordable hats for people whose hats are a necessity of daily life, and not a fashion statement.

  • moish

    you have a problem with primo?

    Must be same folks that have an issue with the bike lanes, tuition, airfare to Vietnam and the price of cottage cheese.

    Never had a problem with Rotter and frankly I have no reason to go to Ave J to buy a hat…but hey nice pics!

  • Benjamin

    borsalino are a dying company of crooks. the fancy store cannot hide the fact that the customer will be paying for all of the cost of that in each and every hat. the rebbe was given those hats by Bencraft I believe and this horrible stire tried to put them and others out of business and never ever gives money to chabad. he and borsalino are greedy. there are other hats and cost less and are better quality and its time to move forward from these label hungry crooks

  • Julio Bertin

    Good Morning.

    My name is Julio Cesar Bertin, and I live in Brazil.

    I would like to purchase a black hat Borsalino Fedora, modeled according to the Chabad custom, the Jewish orthodox traditional line.

    My hat number in Brazil is 57.

    You can send it to Brazil?

    I’m waiting for the contact.

    Thank you