Cowboy hats losing their cool?

[AtomicEraTom]

I'm a big fan of the Porter Wagoner glitter. Good showmanship: it's missing from modern Country just as much as the hats are.

 

[Dan Allen]

No slight intended towards Porter Wagner, I watched and enjoyed him also. Its a shame that talent and personality on both stage and film seems to have been replaced with lights and pyrotechnics.

 

[Knobscobber]

At'll be the day~

 

[gtdean48]

I'm a big fan of the Porter Wagoner glitter. Good showmanship: it's missing from modern Country just as much as the hats are.

Porter's hairdo was not hat friendly....

 

[HudsonHawk]

Porter's hairdo was not hat friendly....

He still wore it well...

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Neither is mine, but it doesn't stop me lol

Porter's hairdo was not hat friendly....

 

[frussell]

I'm afraid I never looked to see Porter's hairdo or whether he was wearing a hat or not. Even as a youngster, I was distracted by Dolly's attributes. He was always a hell of a singer, glitter or not. Frank

 

[job]

I don't really think they are losing there cool at the moment. I think they went out in large numbers at the end of the 1950s. Even George Jones, Johnny Cash, etc. mostly didn't wear them in the 1960s and 70s. If you look back at old footage there were a lot of performers wearing them. I think they went out to a lesser degree with the fedora.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I don't really think they are losing there cool at the moment. I think they went out in large numbers at the end of the 1950s. Even George Jones, Johnny Cash, etc. mostly didn't wear them in the 1960s and 70s. If you look back at old footage there were a lot of performers wearing them. I think they went out to a lesser degree with the fedora.

The hat is cool because cool guys wear it, not the other way around. If you're wearing it look cool, chances are you don't.

 

[Orangegrad]

Here in Cleveland we don't see to many cowboy hats. But then, we don't see too many good fedoras, either.

I don't own any true cowboy hats. But my favorite jewelry is Navajo bolos, rings and pendants. I typically wear one of my Akubra Fed IVs when I wear a bolo. Is it truly western? No. But it works for me. Or I guess I should say this is what I prefer to wear, whether or not anyone else likes it.

 

[RBH]

Andy, I like the look of 'western' wear with a fedora.
I really like the way that bolos look with fedoras also.
Cool photo...thanks for posting it.
That bolo would look good with a Bluegrass Green Campdraft.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

It still held on in places with ranches and the like. You're right about it disappearing big time in the late fifties to the seventies. Between Urban Cowboy and the rodeo styling that was big in Country-Music up until the current fads, hats were a big deal.

I don't really think they are losing there cool at the moment. I think they went out in large numbers at the end of the 1950s. Even George Jones, Johnny Cash, etc. mostly didn't wear them in the 1960s and 70s. If you look back at old footage there were a lot of performers wearing them. I think they went out to a lesser degree with the fedora.

 

[WesternHatWearer]

I have seen more cowboy hats in public of late than I ever have in my lifetime. I live in an area that is growing, currently. I wear western hats just about any place I go, except to church.
The past few months when I am out around town I have noticed more and more western hats being worn. I was pleasantly surprised. I have also a growing trend of stingy brimmed hats being work by young women. Not a look I am crazy about, but it means more hats are finding a home.

 

[JoeyC]

I have a rather large collection of western/cowboy hats, many made specifically for wearing when I participated in cowboy action shooting in period style dress and many in contemporary styles both custom and stock. While I do not wear them with the frequency I once did, I do still wear them. My dress fedoras haven't replaced them it's just that my style is rather eclectic. I feel just as comfortable in jeans, boots and western hat in appropriate surroundings as I am in three piece suit, tie, dress shoes and dress fedora on other occasions. I, as we all on this forum, appreciate a beautiful hat regardless of it's lineage though some prefer one over the other.

 

[Blackthorn]

Whether we see folks wearing cowboy hats or not, just depends on where you live. They are common here in this part of CA and where I was born in TX.

 

[Inusuit]

Lottsa cowboy hats in Wyoming. I have three Steton Open Roads, two in the traditional cattleman's crease including a 7x Clear Beaver and 25, and one a 3x creased as a fedora. I also have a 4X Stetson that's my knock around hat and a vintage 7X Rancher style for serious wear. Sadly, I also see a lot of ranch cowboys in ball caps. There's a standing joke: Why do real cowboys wear tractor caps? So you can tell them from the real estate agents.

 

[Big J]

Not many cowboy hats here in Japan, but I bought my first last year. Very cool.

 

[KingAndrew]

My Stetsonian is sometimes taken for a cowboy hat in China. I wonder what folks will think when I get back with my Boss Raw Edge.

 

[WesternHatWearer]

My Stetsonian is sometimes taken for a cowboy hat in China. I wonder what folks will think when I get back with my Boss Raw Edge.

You may be the topic of conversation for many with such an addition.

 

[DJH]

A ton of people wear western hats here in Ft. Worth, both in town and around the stockyards area - I don't recall seeing anyone in a fedora, other than the occasional Panama hat.

With the summer getting going, nearly every hat is a western shantung straw - very popular with all the local law enforcement guys too.