About cowboy hats.

[GregLaROCHE]

When you are in the summer sun nothing beats a straw hat.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

When you are in the summer sun nothing beats a straw hat.

Yep, bought a straw in Brownsville many years back and it protected me from the hot sun on South Padre.

[doc1876]

900 bucks !? I've bought cars for less than that.

How long did the car last? I have over ten hats that are over 35 years old. and yes, I wear most of them at lease once a week.

[megasupermagnum]

900 bucks !? I've bought cars for less than that.

I'm pretty sure he means $90, or at least I hope so. I do have one hat I really like that I see are now up to $125. Everything wool is expensive. I sure do miss the days of getting good cars for $900. I still own a truck I bought before Obama started the cash for clunker scam which imploded the market. I traded a car I bought for $600 for it. It now has 325,000 miles, and still gets around. I put 15,000 miles on it this year, been to 4 states, bunch of animals final resting place before the dinner plate. The money I spent working on it last year is still less than a single new truck payment.

[waksupi]

I'm pretty sure he means $90, or at least I hope so. I do have one hat I really like that I see are now up to $125. Everything wool is expensive. I sure do miss the days of getting good cars for $900. I still own a truck I bought before Obama started the cash for clunker scam which imploded the market. I traded a car I bought for $600 for it. It now has 325,000 miles, and still gets around. I put 15,000 miles on it this year, been to 4 states, bunch of animals final resting place before the dinner plate. The money I spent working on it last year is still less than a single new truck payment.

No, $900. It takes 34 beaver to make a quality hat. They don't come cheap.

[Finster101]

These are a pretty good hat for summer. I use a stampede strap on mine, worn on the back of the head, rather than the dorky under the chin of early western movies.

https://www.crazycrow.com/mountain-m...-palm-leaf-hat

Thanks for the link. My hat is supposed to be here Sunday. I like being outside but the sun beats me up. A ball cap jsut doesn't cover enough. I usually pick up elcheapo golf hats at a local pro shop. They don't last long though. Hope this one works well. If it does they have another style I like as well. I wouldn't mind investing in a Stetson if there was a local shop where I could try one on. I would feel like a poser though, I ain't got no experience at cowboying.

[clintsfolly]

I bought a cowboy hat in Tx about 79. My wife thru it away in 2001. I still give her crap over it I wore it fishing, early fall hunting and camping. She claimed it stunk. It was gone a few weeks when I went to get it as I had found a place to get it cleaned. But I get even 3-4 years ago we where in Jackson Hole Wy and I got a new one. Made by Beaver Creek and I used her credit card!

[Sturmgewehr]

My go to hat is the Outback Waga Waga. I do own a few Stetsons as well.

[waksupi]

Thanks for the link. My hat is supposed to be here Sunday. I like being outside but the sun beats me up. A ball cap jsut doesn't cover enough. I usually pick up elcheapo golf hats at a local pro shop. They don't last long though. Hope this one works well. If it does they have another style I like as well. I wouldn't mind investing in a Stetson if there was a local shop where I could try one on. I would feel like a poser though, I ain't got no experience at cowboying.

You will look like a wealthy southern plantation owner!

[Finster101]

You will look like a wealthy southern plantation owner!

Well, I look in the mirror every day and I'll chalk up your description to poetic license.

[Thundarstick]

I tried to like a cowboy hat several times growing up on the farm, there just in the way all the time. There's a reason you don't see mechanics wearing hats, in the way all the time, and most farm work in these parts involve lots of mechanic work! I guess they are pretty handy in the open on horse back, but nope, couldn't give me one.

I guess a $900 cowboy hats about the same as $1000 sneakers to some others.

[Outpost75]

Here in West Virginia they order State Trooper's campaign hats from Miller Hats in Houston,TX.
Quality is fully equal to USMC drill instructor version.

[doc1876]

a great read, but I have a serious cowboy hat question. Ever since high-back seats became the standard, how the heck can you wear one in a vehicle?

Personally, I just gave up, and set it in one of the vacant seats. If necessary, some one is chosen to hold it in their lap, if they have clean hands. I have a couple of the truck hat racks, and I really don't like them. they work ok, I just can't reach that far anymore.

[jaysouth]

Here in West Virginia they order State Trooper's campaign hats from Miller Hats in Houston,TX.
Quality is fully equal to USMC drill instructor version.

See post #33. The 1908 Cavalry pattern hat is from Miller hats. $237 to get to my front porch. Miller calls my hat 7X beaver.

[Outpost75]

See post #33. The 1908 Cavalry pattern hat is from Miller hats. $237 to get to my front porch. Miller calls my hat 7X beaver.

Roger that, my Italian SASS buddy Buffalo George has the same cloned version of William Holden's hat from The Wild Bunch which I gifted to him for his hospitality for having me as a guest in his home and traveling to visit the Pietta and Uberti factories and to shoot Cowboy matches in Europe in 2011.

[Vegas Vince]

Outstanding!!!![

[johnho]

Never liked baseball caps and switched over to wide brim hats for golf. Out east cowboy hats aren't popular at all especially for general wear. Finally got a couple of nice felt Stetson fedoras. In the summer I wear a nice ($) Panama hat.

[JoeJames]

Cowboy hats are pretty rare here in Arkansas until you get about as far west as Fort Smith, which after all is right on the Oklahoma border.

[doc1876]

I have a lady in South Dakota that makes 100% beaver for around 450-500... Naomi Bennett. I have one of her hats, and am getting ready to get one in black for formal occasions...

[Waisting lead]

I learned the lesson of the need for a good hat when the deer was outlined by the sun.
Ever since I've been wearing a wide brimmed fedora style hat ,and I've never spent over fifty dollars for one.
I've seen the expensive ones but I've destroyed too many to waste money on one of those.