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    Flattening Brim & Stitching Sweatband?

    Definately want a heavy-weight western hat for that.
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    I've been using Scott paper shop towels lately. A few thicknesses take a size off and they tend to absorb sweat before it gets through to the felt. When they get icky I toss them and put in new ones.
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    What's a wind trolley?

    I saw an old Cagney movie this summer (he wasn't a gangster) and he was wearing a boater with wind trolley attached. Quite obvious even in the BW movie but few today would know what it is.
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    Felt hats in summer..

    My big change from winter to summer is I put the dark colored felts away for the summer - they absorb way too much heat from the sun. For me, light-colored light-weight felts are about the same as tight-weave panamas. I have a couple of cheap open-weave straws that breathe well but they don't...
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    Flattening Brim & Stitching Sweatband?

    Fedora-style hats are usually flanged to put some curl all around the brim. If you do the math, you'll find that that outside circumference of the brim is smaller than it calculates to. Getting a flat brim on a fedora that was made with a snap brim would be a major undertaking. Western-style...
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    Stetson Playboy: Stretching & restoring...

    I wouldn't really call that a split sweatband. Very possible that someone removed the stitches to allow it to accomodate a head that was a bit too big. If it had been the correct size re-stitching would be simple. I get more hats stuffed into a too-small box than properly packed. I always...
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    Ear Flicking, Hat Manhandling, Hat Tips, Boy George, and Hat Crushing

    Just for future reference, that was NOT a "lady."
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    Should I defeather this Stetson??

    I remember my grandmother showing me a small box almost filled with hat feathers that had belonged to my grandfather. The shop where he bought his hats included buyer's choice of a feather with each hat. He didn't wear feathers on his hat but since he'd paid for a feather he brought one home and...
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    Should I defeather this Stetson??

    Yes, you don't like feathers so take it off No, but it might leave a tiny impression where the feather was. Stetson usually doesn't glue them in but just be careful.
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    Should I defeather this Stetson??

    I have several hats with feathers. Most of my black hats have a feather. But I only have one hat with a plume and it isn't a fedora.
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    Should I defeather this Stetson??

    Yes, take it off. But BE CAREFUL! There's liable to be a hook in there somewhere. And stay away from trout ponds 'til you get it off there.
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Nothing wrong with the hat that I can see. It is what it is. The sweatbands usually go in before the hat is creased so if the seam is off center the hat was creased off center. Not all that uncommon. Fix the crease and it will be much better.
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    If you smash them down they'll fit in a smaller box. The first and only empty box I bought from eBay came that way.
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    HAPPY FELT HAT DAY!

    Not much question in my mind the "Day" was promoted by hat sellers as a way to get people to buy hats.
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    HAPPY FELT HAT DAY!

    Yes. I haven't found certain info as to the origination of felt hat day but it has been around since at least 1953.
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    HAPPY FELT HAT DAY!

    We are seriously into felt hat weather but I've been wearing felt all summer anyway.
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    Vintage hat size question

    Not all the manufacturers used the same sizing method so that adds to the fun.
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    Hat band replacement step by step

    Oh yeah, I forgot an important thing. Do your first few with a hat and ribbon color that won't show blood!
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    Vintage hat size question

    I picked up a hat a few months ago that was a 7 3/8 but had shrunk to a 7. I also have several vintage hats that are still the same size they were tagged. And there is always the chance the original owner had the hat stretched to fit. It is always a bit of a crap shoot to buy hats without being...
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    Hat band replacement step by step

    Ribbons really aren't that hard to do once you get the hang of it. Most fabric stores have grosgrain ribbon made of 100% polyester - not something you want to put on your hat but cheap enough for learning. The big problem with the polyester stuff is it tends to melt when you iron it. You'll...

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