Brad Bowers
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Looking forward to the photos. I'm thinking you're right that it was meant to be a travel hat, hence the unreeded sweatband. The Gay Prince started out life as a lightweight felt - my '42 is the lightest hat I own, and the felt is paper thin on the crown. It has a reeded sweatband because of the Tru-Size feature, though, so it's not quite a packable hat. That might be a variant, with other early-'40s standard GPs coming with unreeded sweats.
I didn't realize the felt got heavier on the '50s models.
The label underneath the sweat sounds like the standard '40s label. The gold size tag doesn't help us much, as it was in use from the '30s through the '60s, with a few variants along the way.
We may never know for sure, but I'm comfortable saying it's early-to-mid'40s.
Brad
I didn't realize the felt got heavier on the '50s models.
The label underneath the sweat sounds like the standard '40s label. The gold size tag doesn't help us much, as it was in use from the '30s through the '60s, with a few variants along the way.
We may never know for sure, but I'm comfortable saying it's early-to-mid'40s.
Brad