Ventilated Sweatbands?

[Bertie.Wooster]

What happened to these older type sweatband with the mesh-looking stitch? Apparently it was for ventilation? I have a couple of boaters with these sweats; I find them superior to the modern sweats....

Can be seen Fig. 2 on the patent sheet for the Bon Ton Ivy sweats.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/88/70/7c/2ae7a8efc79bdb/US760087-drawings-page-1.png

Image: (Apologies for the crude drawing... )

 

[mayserwegener]

This would have to be attached to the sweatband. Also you would need a machine to stitch it to the hat. They are also used for self conforming due to the Stiff nature of Boaters. I would check to see if any recent Boater manufactures are still using such sweatbands and check into how they are accomplishing it.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

What happened to these older type sweatband with the mesh-looking stitch? Apparently it was for ventilation? I have a couple of boaters with these sweats; I find them superior to the modern sweats....

Can be seen Fig. 2 on the patent sheet for the Bon Ton Ivy sweats.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/88/70/7c/2ae7a8efc79bdb/US760087-drawings-page-1.png

Image: (Apologies for the crude drawing... )

I’m not sure anybody has the machine and knowledge to do the stitch needed to attach the cording to the felt. If they did they could re-sew unreeded sweatbands to felt and be very busy. I may be wrong though.
Bowen

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Sometimes the specialized equipment cost just doesn’t make any sense. Some of the old sewing machines are very rare and very expensive. If you spent $10,000 (a number I pulled from the air) on a sewing machine how many hats would you need to make for the cost to amortize at an acceptable rate?


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[alanfgag]

What happened to these older type sweatband with the mesh-looking stitch? Apparently it was for ventilation? I have a couple of boaters with these sweats; I find them superior to the modern sweats....

Can be seen Fig. 2 on the patent sheet for the Bon Ton Ivy sweats.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/88/70/7c/2ae7a8efc79bdb/US760087-drawings-page-1.png

Image: (Apologies for the crude drawing... )

I believe there were a few soft hats posted in recent years with this method of sweatband attachment. The hats I have owned were stiff hats (boaters and derbies) for which the Bon Ton Ivy sweatband forms a sort of trampoline suspension, perhaps providing some comfort for varying head shapes within a rigid opening. I don't know if cooling was also claimed. I've never noticed a real difference in comfort from ventilation holes or corrugations, etc.