Recent content by jlee562

Sovereign grade was ditched in the Deckard era, so a 2014 sale is not out of the question. But I agree that the box is older. They were using the grey and white boxes back then, because I remember being slightly disappointed they didn't do special boxes for the 150th anniversary.

The pictures have gone dead, but this is an archived version of the Goorin site from 2010. If you click through the descriptions, you might find your model name. https://web.archive.org/web/20101220031005/http://www.goorin.com/?q=hats/ballcaps

This is the only OR tag I have, not super helpful unfortunately.

If those are your choices, pick an Akubra. Modern Stetson and Resistol are, as far as I can tell, the same. They're coming out of the same factory with different branding. 4x, currently, is wool. Don't buy a wool hat. I was going to recommend a custom wool from Knudsen, but looks like that's...

So this article is about 10 years old, so not sure if this email will work, but the guy who made the hats for 1923 is based on Montana and works out of a camper. https://www.truckcampermagazine.com/camper-lifestyle/a-man-of-many-hats/

This piece on folks searching for evidence of Tasmanian tigers features an appropriately eclectic guy in what looks like an Akubra Cattleman.

Someone in the FB group said Hornskov might be one of the best hatters out there, I replied that he used pre-pounced FEPSA blanks*. Well, Peter saw that and said something along the lines of "because I choose to use the best, doesn't mean I can't work with anything else" (again, paraphrasing). I...

This Borsalino factory tour came across my YouTube recommendations. Didn't realize Borso was still felting their own bodies.

Checking in on a friend's cats this weekend. 7xCB that I reblocked on a #52.

Presumably the hemp ones are a bit more forgiving, but the shantung straw ones will definitely not just snap down. Shantung western do get shaped, so if you steam it, you could probably turn the brim down.

Sam Meyer of Meyer the Hatter in New Orleans in the news, Stetson 100.

Whether or not one considers it an appropriate hat for the working cowboy, these shorter brims are not unheard of and were certainly fairly common mid century offerings. Walt Disney had one too. The hat I wear like 60% of the time now, 7xCB: One of those hats in the Austral/BOP lineage:

I'm gonna buy calipers one day, I swear. In terms of just the thickness of the felt, those older hats are much closer to a modern dress weight than to a modern western weight.

Great colour combo. I know exactly where that is too, there's a barber shop on that corner now, drive by it all the time.

For an off the rack hat, you could do worse than the current Stetson Range 6x.