Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns

[LocktownDog]

In 1940, the biggest change in staple hats in many years was the introduction of pastel colors for movie cowboys and rodeo riders."

Yeah ... that's what I'm looking for ... a 5 inch brim in peach with a little silk rose on the band.

[carouselvic]

Yeah ... that's what I'm looking for ... a 5 inch brim in peach with a little silk rose on the band.

What size?

[rlk]

"In 1901 staple hats were offered in the following colors: black, blue-black, otter belly, side and back nutria. The last three were natural fur colors. In 1940, the biggest change in staple hats in many years was the introduction of pastel colors for movie cowboys and rodeo riders."

not mine.

[ScottF]

This book has some great early western hat photos:

The Cowboy Hat Book

[PabloElFlamenco]

5-inch brims? Pastel rose? Tom Mix? (try a Cord but keep your luggage forward).

Ok guys. Gotta come to grips, for fear of this becoming an outright orgy, which -whilst it may have been, at some point in time, Roman practice- is not in tune with what many would have you believe to be proper Christian Western lore, to which I'm, by culture if not education, to abide.

Note the pinch of gallic scepticism which I must ..re-sist as well as -ject. these (quote) puttylike (unquote) bashes have something outrightly un-conventional in that they denote flexibility which, if I'm not mistaken, would be commendable solely in matters military, to the exlcusion of moral.
¿Hollywood? ¿Twin peaks? No! Nutria, from Argentina!

[Dinerman]

Rose?



And look at the color on the big one second from the left (non- stetson). Westerns certainly came in colors which someone today would not expect as being made in the pre-1940s period

[ScottF]

Rose?

I'm drooling - the bookend hats are amazing.

For Garrett...after spending some time digging around the internet looking at pics and reading up on these hats, I removed the telescope bash and very carefully put it back in its original Tom Mix. It will stay this way:

[feltfan]

It will stay this way:

[PabloElFlamenco]

Scott, "it will stay this way". Better pour ten gallons of stiffener onto it

[Garrett]

Well done, Scott