r/hats

Any ideas to where I should go? Cheers.

Here we are on my 6th training hat. As with all the others it's a cheap wool Fedora I picked up for $10 (last image). Pics don't do the color justice, it's a lovely olive green. Cleaning it up, popped it, blocked it, shellaced, and shaped.

The last one was full cowboy hat so I wanted to go something more city, more dressy. Something I can wear casually but will dress up nice as well.

I'd call it 'open road adjacent'. At least that was my basic inspiration to guide me, cattleman's crease on top, brim binding, lift. For my take, I'm not a huge fan of a pure cattleman's crease so I gave it a little bit of wishbone. Obviously, the band is more of a Fedora ribbon to get that dress feel. Plus, my head just doesn't work with a full lift so I did a slight pull-down in the front.

Robin work was hard. Several hours hand stitching the brim binding. Next time I'm going to try my sewing machine. Also struggled with the bow. Not so much producing it as finding something I liked. However, the tone on tone really worked out.i love the palette.

I did a pencil curl but that also doesn't work in my head for whatever reason so I released about 90% of that so it's just barely a curl.

It's old hat day today. This one is older than I am. As close as I can narrow it down, this Stetson was made sometime between 1955 and 1962.

I love this hat, can't find the model number on it. It uyse to have ear flaps that folded down but they were too warm for where I live 90% of the time so I cut them out

My fifth practice hat. As before, it's a $10 cheap wool Fedora. I cleaned it, popped it, and shellaced it for shaping.

It had the widest brim of all my cheapies, at just under 4". Given that and it's color I went for something more western. Technically, it's a fedora crown but with the stingray brim and braided leather band it lands totally cowboy.

It's a 4 strand braid. I bought a book about braiding leather. It wasn't hard.

Final touch, my wife picks up odds and ends at the reuse place, and she grabbed a copper leaf deco thing that really worked with the color palette.

I'm generally not cowboy, but I like it. Wearing it out tonight.

Never noticed it before, dont know if it's a manufacture detail or what. (47 cap)
noticed if after washing my cap and letting it dry. feels like a solid triangle and two circles under the cloth (second photo), I remember I used the washing machine after reading is ok and left it dry on top of a drying rack.
I don really know what to do about, is kinda driving me crazy

Stetson Imperial, $28.00. Best find ftom a week of thrifting in the Big Apple.

AHC JC4200.