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I want to get a straw hat for the summer but I don’t think I can pull it off. I feel like people will look at me like I’m an idiot. People around me don’t wear stuff like this.

u/Drewwolf87 — 23 hours ago

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A nice Justin Palm for this Florida weather/heat and 🌧.

u/Overall-Driver6383 — 12 hours ago

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Lost my first (cheap) hat a while back, bought a semi-proper one today

New one is from Banjo Swagger Australia, still looks too fresh imo but i guess it just needs time. Old one was from some western store somewhere in the Northern Territory, Australia (which i got for 30$). Next up is some proper boots

u/TheFancySirJames — 18 hours ago

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Any color recommendation for my first cowboy hat??

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u/Alternative_Soup_382 — 19 hours ago

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u/RodeoBoss66 — 1 day ago

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My first hat

Cody James 15x Bangora. A father’s day gift that I absolutely love.

u/MurkyConnection3177 — 1 day ago

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My new hat from American Lore in Denver

Pulled the trigger yesterday and got my whiskey brown 7x beaver custom shaped at American Lore in Denver. Has a brick crown with a mule kick and 3 7/8 brim. My wife opted for the wool that they also shaped for her. I can’t recommend Hats by Parker Thomas and American Lore highly enough. It was a great experience!

u/AlwaysThinkingNinja — 1 day ago

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My American for a Montana Summer

I was aiming for a vintage 70s look. What do you think of it? Shoutout Larry from WesTrends.

u/TrafficThis6853 — 1 day ago

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Trying to figure out brim and crown style

Hey everyone, I purchased a felt cowboy hat (i know not the season for it) while i was on a trip to Austin. I fell in love with the look and want to purchase a straw hat for this heat. I lost the tag that stated what style the hat was and would live yalls input on the brim style and crown style as i have no clue. I am trying to purchase a white or natural straw colored stetson for my summer hat and need some help figuring out the style of the felt one. Thank you for your time.

u/Psychopath--- — 1 day ago

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Where can I find a cowboy that looks exactly like this?

For context, this is from a game I play called Rainbow Six Siege. Guy wearing his name’s Goyo. Mexican dude. Love his hat and would like to find a real life version of it to wear. If anyone knows please let a brother know. 🤘

u/vanillamccrackerz — 1 day ago

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Got my first custom hat and a feather

Got it made by Wild Hats cause they are local to me.

And no the feather is not due to a firework I shot, I saw it as I went to go set off fireworks.

u/G4ming4D4ys — 1 day ago

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Just got this hat

u/Obvious_Jeweler_1564 — 1 day ago

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A Playboy History of the Cowboy Hat (Unpaywalled)

The cowboy hat has always been a bit of a performance. Although its design traces back to Mexican sombreros—the ultra-wide-brimmed hats worn by traditional vaqueros—the modern version of the cowboy hat was created by an easterner. In 1865, John B. Stetson, the son of a Philadelphia-based hatter, lit out for Colorado after being rejected by the military due to tuberculosis. At the time, frontiersmen, gunslingers, and cowboys wore the close-fitting bowler (a.k.a. the derby), which, Stetson noticed, did little to protect the wearer from the elements. He designed a hat with a high crown and a wide brim, fashioning it from waterproof beaver-pelt felt, and called it, audaciously, the Boss of the Plains.

Stetson made the cowboy hat useful, but Buffalo Bill made it mythic. Starting around 1883, his Wild West show turned working Western gear into national theater. Hollywood finished the job. John Wayne, unrivaled icon of the genre, wore the same slouchy silverbelly model over two decades, from Stagecoach (1939) to Rio Bravo (1959); his hat, and the rugged individualism it radiated, became almost as famous as he was.

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u/playboy — 1 day ago

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Opinion on shape of the hat

Hey folks! My brother gave this hat to me as a gift couple of years ago when he returned his trip from Peru. One time I forgot it in the car and it had a lot of sunshine for a couple of days in summer. After that shape of the hat got a little wavy. I mean wavier than it used to be. I wear it time to time in festivals in Bavaria Germany. I really like to wear it when I do. What do you think of the shape? I can bend it a little but i can’t bring it to the former shape.

u/WarmFortune5046 — 1 day ago