Nothing but stetson ads

[Baron Kurtz]

From the Summer 1932 number of Apparel Arts:

[alanfgag]

Not really an ad, but I thought it worked in this thread best. Interesting blurb from 1921 about the duplication numbers we see on the tags in Stetsons. Started in 1887.

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<sigh> If only that still worked.

[buler]

<sigh> If only that still worked.

Yes, its sad to think of all the history and documentation lost. At one time they could have looked up those numbers and told you all of the hat specs. When we went to the hatco factory and saw a cabinet with old ledgers in the entry area, they told us that was about all of the old "books" that survived from Stetson. We asked what they were and were told they were just some old accounting ledgers.

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[Fletch]

They didn't want to be bothered tooling up for that stuff, so out it went.

[danofarlington]

If I ever go to a seance, one of my first questions will be aimed at the departed Stetson designers. "What do the Xs really mean?"

[buler]

Ad from February 1905. Another small piece of the Stetson Rosetta.

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[alanfgag]

Fantastic early ad... and from a company that is still in business today. How rare is that. About as rare as a 100 year old 5X Beaver. Has anyone seen a Stetson 3X or 5X soft hat from this era? That would be a very special find.

Thanks for sharing this, Bill.

[splintercellsz]

These came in a group of Ads I recently aquired.

This Stetson ad has the Paris 1889 Logo on it.



Vanity Fair, March 1928 (the discoloration is from my scanner. The ad is in great shape).