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1950's Stetson Bantam.
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What is your favorite hat crease?
- Thread starter Matt Deckard
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One Too Many
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Knox Fifteen. This one had to have a diamond. I tried a center dent..... just didn't quite look right.
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Need to get a better shot of the crease on my Portis New Slant, but it came to me with a wide diamond. Since the person selling it on Ebay was definitely not a hat person, this would be the bash of the original owner. Probably a 60 year old bash, I kind of like it.
Mrs Fed and I went to see my daughter in the play Our Town. As we walked toward the community theater, I looked at the 60's - 70's ??? Champ MrsFed was wearing. It had a nice little center dent, but the front brim was up and no side dents. So I said, you need a little snap in that brim. I took the hat off her head, snapped the front brim down, reached up with my finger and thumb, and pushed in some nice front pinches/side dents. I was impressed with how well this relatively modern fur felt hat took the crease.
I looked up in time to see one of the play production assistants smiling ear-to-ear at my little "creasing" exercise. It was a fun night, and the hats just make it better. Several hats in the play. The poor Dr. clearly needed a better hat but the others weren't half bad.
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I looked up in time to see one of the play production assistants smiling ear-to-ear at my little "creasing" exercise. It was a fun night, and the hats just make it better. Several hats in the play. The poor Dr. clearly needed a better hat but the others weren't half bad.
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Nice work finding that. Great scene. Thanks for sharing
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Red, my memory may be foggy, but I believe the Slant was one of the first factory creased hats.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
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That would be an interesting study. I have two Lee back bows that are creased from the factory, they are mid to late 50s.
moontheloon
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factory creasing started in the early 1940s
I know Stetson made a "slant" in the early 40s that was factory blocked ... and I can't recall what manufacturer it was at the moment but there is a 1940s ad for a factory blocked hat advertised as "hat check girl proof"
I don't think any of them sold well because they didn't last very long
I've only seen one Stetson "slant" come up for sale in my time collecting ... it was in pretty rough shape though and the factory slant was long gone
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Love that! The Stetson Slant was a real hoot. It came up often when I was researching the Portis.
moontheloon
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a hoot indeed ... "the nonchalance is blocked in" ... or whatever their slogan was
the greatest oxymoron of hat advertising
Rogera
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Just saw this one. Man that looks great, crease and all! I love that ribbon with that feltNew ribbon called for a new crease – so over the weekend I changed this one from a teardrop to a diamond. Here is my BGCD, just back from getting the new copper-colored ribbon and edge binding at Texas Hatters in Lockhart, TX. A great job, as always, by Texas Hatters!
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M Hatman
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Here is my Knox "Extra", beautiful soft felt, I keep playing around with it. It started as a nice diamond, then a a sort of "cattlemens" crease, now ending like this....................for now!
Cheers,
M
Cheers,
M
Good example of the hat showing how it wants to be creased.
M Hatman
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Yes, it is....I just wish it would photograph better...the front of the center dent is actually quite tight, almost like it was clipped. It does not really show well in the photo's.........it is quite striking in person....really nice felt in a medium light grey......
M
Short Balding Guy
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Vtg. Stetson Royal De Luxe Stratoliner.
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Knox Premier Strat clone, c.1950s. Kind of a crumpled diamond is this hat's desire.
moontheloon
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i wouldn't call that "crumpled" at all ... I'd call it F'n perfect
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That Knox is a beut Red! Between the photographs and the movies I've seen from "the era" I'm convinced "imperfect" creases were the rule rather than the exception. Surely there were men who constantly fiddled with their hats to maintain a "perfect" crease, but I believe most just grabbed 'em, slammed 'em on their heads, and went about their business without giving it another thought.
