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Desert dog

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BobHufford said:
Stumbled across this one on an obscure classifieds site while not even looking (was following a posted link for a vintage bicycle). An esteemed Lounge member is facilitating. Hat people are the best!

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Looks like you stumbled good!

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deadlyhandsome

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Yahoody said:
"Normally a hat with a super large brim does not appeal to us"


You consider a 3" brim "super large" ? Really? Even a 6" crown can get mighty short if you add any shape.


Guess everything depends on head size :) My wife has a 4" crown, 5" brim hat (6 1/2 LO) that is great out doors...mighty big indoors! At a very cute 125# and 5'4" she still gets compliments on that hat all the time. I some times suspect it might not always be the hat.
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For a fedora, three inches is a very large brim width. Not so much when talking about western hats. My personal observations are that the most common height for an open crown fedora is 5 1/2 inches so 6 inches is tall. In an apples to apples world this is an outsized fedora. This is envisioned as a bridge between a western dress hat and a city dress hat. A weird niche I know, but I need to be able to justify ordering yet another hat.

I'm slowly warming to westerns and the requisite wide brims (for limited applications). I'm also part of a growing group that buy westerns and convert them to fedoras, mostly just to give @Joao Encarnado nightmares. :)
 
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