Well... it IS why they call it a craze, after all. There isn't usually too much logic in a craze. Remember when everyone had to have a Cabbage Patch Kid doll and were paying three times what they retailed for to get one? Yet all they had to do is wait a month or two and they'd get it at retail...
I've said both (without adding the "is it over 2 inches") and often got a non-informative reply. Even the word "width" has often confused these sellers, sadly. Once I started adding the "is it over 2 inches" I've had fewer confused replies.
Even when I said, "what is the width of the brim" in the past I'd get every measurement but the brim. By adding "is it over 2 inches" that solves the problem (as I said in my post above).
I have finally figured out how to word the question to get clueless sellers to tell me what a brim measures in at.
I used to say, "what does the brim measure?"
This would bring me any manner of replies. One guy said 14 inches. Naturally the idiot was measuring from one end of the hat to the...
This is exactly why I've slowed buying quite a bit. I've about decided to stop getting anything that isn't a Stetson and the Stetson's I'm looking at are one that I have no other example of.
I am watching a bunch of hats but most only to see where the prices go.
I threw in a bid of $290 at the 7 sec. mark imagining that no one would go higher (and wondering how I'd explain it to my wife) and MAN was I surprised to see it get to almost $340!
WOW, a 1920s or 30s Stetson Airlite goes for well over $300!!
It was misadvertised as a "Bencheley 3 way hat" because it was with one of those 3-way hat boxes (not in good shape). But this hat is very, very interesting. It has a cloth sweatband, not leather, and the whole underside of the felt...
The thing I caution about stretching (if an older hat) the leather sweat should be dosed with some sort of preservative first. Neatsfoot, lexol, mink oil... whatever is your favorite (always being sure not to get it on the threads holding the sweat to the hat). I always think it is a good idea...
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