Recent content by jlee562

Many thanks to @Bamaboots for tipping me off to this one. It was ending while I was on vacation, so I threw out what I thought was a modest bid (because I might have also impulsively ordered a ukulele) and didn't try any last second shenanigans, but turns out I was the lone bidder so it went for...

More commonly found on earlier Stetsons.

Except I was not making a general point, I was addressing your posts. Yes, that would be fine if someone did that. But that's not what you did. You keep asking about a particular hat - escalating to hijacking someone else's thread - and keep getting told that nobody knows anything about it. When...

You asked, nobody knows. You keep asking, who do you expect is going to research it for you?

Spent some family time in Maui with my trusty shantung OR. I still ultimately prefer a woven straw, but just as a practical matter, this hat works out quite well. Won't be crushed by the xray and water repellant for those Maui showers.

Contemporary hat buyers get caught up too much in beaver content, methinks. The vast majority of factory hats were not 100% beaver. To consider Stetson, just considering the surviving samples around here (which of course is not necessarily a representative sample in a historical context), we...

There is a limit to what we can know. It's simply impossible to curate a historic list of hat names for every model Stetson ever produced. If you'd like to prove me wrong however, the forum would greatly appreciate your efforts. If you can't find it in the catalog pages listed here, why are you...

You have the same resources at your disposal as we do. It's not always possible, actually I would even say it's usually not possible to ID a specific hat model if it isn't branded as such.

Whatever it is, that's not Bluegrass green. I can't say for certain, but I doubt the liner color has much to do with anything.

The username finally clicked for me. You may appreciate this one: Maybe not a long hair per se, but a lighter color like Silverbelly could work.

The Public Enemies Dillinger suit was navy....

No, I'm talking about stuff like this: He doesn't appear to be actively making hats after some kerfluffle, so I don't feel bad naming this as a Gunner Foxx hat. I get the spots from the top of my ears on some hats, and this is not that.

That handwritten tag is presumably not a factory tag. The other reorder tag doesn't match the reorder tags on my mid century Stetsons. (new sweatband, original tags) Also, the sweatband would have been branded and would have been a wider width in the 50's. Pretty sure this one is 40's: So...

I don't mind that people are straying away from traditional designs and grosgrain bows (more ribbon for the rest of us). I wouldn't personally wear a good chunk of these modern styled hats, but no grudge against them. No item of clothing stays the same in perpetuity. Bob at BSHW has a packet of...

If you elect to keep them, definitely try steam to smooth out the ribbons. But you also can use an iron on the ribbon. If you can sew, just pop the stitches, iron out the ribbon, sew it back on. It shouldn't be your problem to deal with, but it can definitely dealt with relatively easily.