The Fez of the Week Blog
The somewhat occasional ramblings of the Fezmonger featuring design prototypes, production updates and the occasional photo essay covering our adventures in silly hats.

Production
#106 The D20 on Red

#106 The D20 on Red

Roll the die on this critically striking fez! The mighty icosahedron of chance returns in this inverted version of last year’s model. Now a much more ominous D20 resides on a filed of blood red velvet. Vanquish your foes with authority while you wear this imposing fez. Back for another roll in 2013 on a...
#105 The Ganesha Fez

#105 The Ganesha Fez

Mighty Ganesha, Lord of Success and Destroyer of Obstacles finally gets his own fez! This is one of those designs that had been in my mind for a long time. I have always loved the symbolism of Ganesha (or Ganesh) and not just because he rode around on the back of a rodent. Back on...
The Hellboy™ Fez

The Hellboy™ Fez

Time for another Special Edition fez! Once again We have done a design collaboration with one of our favorite artists and boy is it a doozy! Two years ago I had the pleasure of working up a special design for writer and artist Mike Mignola. This time I got to work with one of his...
The Table Top Gamer Fez

The Table Top Gamer Fez

Our latest design is a tribute to those that spent their formative years expanding their minds, taxing their imaginations and turning their fates over to a roll of the dice. The Table Top Gamer fez features a winged dodecahedron of chance in front of a pencil and pawn wrapped in a banner of honor on...
#94 The Ub'thulhu Fez

#94 The Ub’thulhu Fez

“Oh, Who is the ancient evil that sleeps beneath the sea, ph’nglui mglw’nafh ~gurggle~coff~ *thud*…” The theme for this year’s H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival was Fun and we decided to embody that in a fez design. The concept for Ub’thulhu first appeared in a sketch I did on a box earlier this year and...
#92 The Samurai Monkey Fez

#92 The Samurai Monkey Fez

Our Obsession with monkeys wearing hats continues in epic form! It’s a monkey, wearing a Samurai helmet, on a fez! Do we have to diagram the equation of awesomeness that is involved here? See you take the monkey and multiply it with Samurai -don’t forget to carry the Bushido- and, look it’s not that complica…...
Fez-o-rama End of Summer News

Fez-o-rama End of Summer News

It has been a long time coming but I finally have a chance to sit down and write a newsletter. We have been so busy making fezzes that I have nearly slipped off the face of the internet, but enough about the why, let’s get to the news. Our latest fezzes debuted at Tiki Oasis...
#91 The Mondotini 2 Fez

#91 The Mondotini 2 Fez

This week’s fez sees the return of a much requested design. Fez of the Week #39 the Mondotini was first created as a very Limited Edition run on black velvet way back in 2010 for the Mondo Lounge 3 weekend in Vegas.  I had originally wanted to do this on the maroon velvet you see...
#88 The Calavera Fez

#88 The Calavera Fez

Our obsession with skulls goes multi-cultural! Last year’s experimental Sugar Skull fez design returns in a new white on black production run! Our Dia De Los Muertos themed design is back by popular demand. The Calavera Fez features our inverted South of the Border Sugar Skull design on a classy Low Profile black velvet fez....
#87 The Winged Monkey Fez

#87 The Winged Monkey Fez

How many monkey themed fezzes is too many? I’ll let you know when we get there… assuming I even notice. That’s right, our monkey obsession continues with our latest fez and this one is a doozy. We are thrilled to present the Winged Monkey Fez! Now some of you may remember way back at #59...
Skull & Bones on Black returns!

Skull & Bones on Black returns!

Way back in December we introduced version 4 of our classic Skull & Bones design. In an effort to bring a little color to our shelves we released the Ruby Red version first but that doesn’t mean we were thinking of our chromatically challenged friends out there. After a bit of delay we are thrilled...
#80 The Flamingo Fez

#80 The Flamingo Fez

The double headed flamingo first appeared as the icon of the flamboyant Byzantine Elite Festivities Guard, this dual flamingo or Double Headed Party Chicken was a badge of honor worn by only the liveliest of the lives of the party. Their exploits were legendary but unfortunately, they were also mostly useless until well after noon....
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