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Now, I do have several western hats but am not “into” them if you know what I mean? Regardless, for sure I don’t do Trilbys or stingy brims. I don’t do hats with brims at under 2-1/4–they are generally called “Trilbys” or stingy brim–and brims larger than 2-7/8 are usually more like cowboy hats than fedoras when they get that big. It has to have a brim that measures between 2-1/4 inches and 3-7/8 inches with about 2-5/8 being my favorite width.

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NO hat has the pelt or skin in it, folks!) with at least a four inch crown. But I’ll tell you what a fedora is to me…Ī fedora is a fur felt hat (the “fur” part being beaver or rabbit fur–just the fur, not the skin. Ironic hats are not cool.Ĭertainly, fedoras mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people and fedora styles are many and varied.

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By real I mean well made, professional hats, not those crappy cotton ones with the silly stripes, colors, or wacky pictures on them, the kind that you can buy at Target these days. OK, that being said, on with my collection…įirst of all fedoras are a man’s hat - not that women shouldn’t wear one - but real men wear real fedoras. It was the hat worn by the members of the 80s hip-hop group Malcolm McLaren and the World’s Famous Supreme Team in their 1982 video for the song “Buffalo Girls.” Well, the hat was created by fashion maven Vivienne Westwood in the 1980s. It was an overgrown, bag-like affair that looked five times too large for his head. In this post I’ll take you through my fedora collection, the hat style most people know me for these days.ĭuring the 2013 Grammy Awards, pop artist Pharrell Williams wore a hat that got everyone talking. Certainly if you’ve known me for long you’ve known me for a distinctive hat of some type or another. Some knew me for my ball cap festooned with that big, heavy collection of lapel pins. Some people knew me for my Civil War-styled black slouch hat. If you know me, you know that I am what ya might call “a hat guy.” For much of my life one of my “things” has been the wearing of a hat. These hats were made from the late 1800s, through the 1900s. This fascinating page has detailed photos of Stetson cowboy hat collection. These tags are another of the many ways to track down a date of a Stetson hat.Ī Tour of My Collection of Antique Stetson Western Hats Wherein we help you date your Stetson using the tags noted.īecause the Stetson logo changed only a finite number of times, here you’ll find yet another way to help date your Stetson. Here we endeavor to answer that question. Click on one of these if you want to go on to some very specific information.Ī Glossary of Hat Terms, Words, Definitions, And StylesĪll the hat terms you need to know to understand the world of hats and hat wearing.Įveryone wants to know what the heck Stetson means by those “genuine” Xs.

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But before we get started, below is the full list of our hat info pages. This first page is a visual walk through my always growing and changing hat collection. But on these pages you’ll find much of what you need to know and resources to look elsewhere for other great info, too. One of the reasons you found us, though, is because information on hats is not just hard to find, it is very, very hard to find. If you’ve landed on this page, chances are you found us through a Google search as our pages now rank on the very first page for most search questions on hat history. (a) Diane Cardano-Casacio, Flourtown, Pa.Welcome searchers of history and information about men’s hats, fedoras, top hats, derbies and bowlers, and, more specifically, Stetson history. Marjorie Jones, Cape May Courthouse, N.J. *(a) Angie Whitley Coleman, Wilmington, Del. The GAP’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf. The organization’s 340 Member Clubs and 100,000 individual members are spread across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. It serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. 24-27.Ĭelebrating Amateur Golf since 1897, GAP, also known as the Golf Association of Philadelphia, is the oldest regional or state golf association in the United States. Senior Women’s Open Championship will be contested at Waverley Country Club in Portland, Ore. The cutline stopped at 6-over-par 78 by day’s end. as well as amateur Monica Pedano of Wayne, Pa. Joining her in the Championship proper are professionals Yuko Ogura of Japan and Karen Nobel of Chatham, N.J. Murphy occupied one of four qualifying positions available. Senior Women’s Open Qualifying administered by GAP at Steel Club (par 72, 5,879 yards). carded a 4-over-par 76 to claim medalist honors in U.S.

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