After lusting after a hat like Raylon Givens wears, I broke down and ordered one yesterday, it will take four to six weeks to get it. I know I wont look as good as he does but I have wanted one since I saw the series on FX. In case you want one too it will cost you 283.00 with shipping. Jeff

A gentleman should have a Stetson or two in his wardrobe. My favorite hat is an old Stetson Open Road. I paid somewhere south of $100 for mine. Oh how times of changed.

Oh, and I don't look as good as Raylon in my Stetson either.

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Bill Bates

I also like that hat, but the price keeps me from owning one. I only have about $20.00 more than that in this tray full of S&W's.

Hell, I've bought cars for less than $283!

My all-time favorite hat is a 25-year-old Pendleton for which I paid $25 back then. I can't kill it, and it just gets better with age.

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Oh well, what the hell.

So................you paid an average of $50.50 for each revolver?

Bruce,
OK, OK, I'll do it. I'm calling Bull**** on that claim.
6 S&W's for just over 3 bills....

Chuck

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Got a Stetson I bought in 1985 for a hundred dollars. Has never been cleaned are reblocked. Still looks like a million dollars. Even on me!

That Stetson is a great looking hat and the Justified program is habit forming. My daughter gave the me series on DVD. Just like reading a good book....hard to put it down. Highly recommend the series if someone has not seen it.

I inherited mine, it's over 55 yrs old and still good.


\/My Akubra I paid 30 AUD 25 years ago in country.

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Halfway and one more step

That is one fine looking old Stetson Open Road. They are a classic.

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Bill Bates

Yessir, and it's got my old daddys initials in gold in the band. I love wearin it, he never lived as long as I have.

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Halfway and one more step

I have two Stetsons, but only have a picture of one of them. THis one is a Marine officer's field (or campaign) hat. I really need to get another hat press. Not sure what happened to mine.

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WAR EAGLE!

Wife bought me a nice yellow straw Stetson years ago. Kinda generic "cowboy" type hat. Got a nice rattlesnake band (with rattle, of course) for it & wore that thing everywhere for years. Thing was filthy dirty but still in great shape. Well "broken in" if you will. Wife went & got me some tight weave bright white straw thing... Haven't touched it. Just not the same. I think she might have thrown my old one out.

I have a few Stetsons and always see one more I would like to get I wear my open road and stratoliner the most

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Stan

A quality Stetson is one of the things in life that doesn't need to be justified.

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I'm with the banned ...

It depends on what you want to spend, you can buy the 4x version for $150, the 6x is $250, they also offer a 20x silver belly version for $500.

Hard to go wrong with a good quality Stetson.

I got my hat from here:

Big Bend Saddlery - Spradley Hats

Only problem is they cost a little more than $283.

A Stetson hat has a lot in common with a S&W revolver. It's just hard to imagine one that isn't very special. Some things are not about dollar value, per se. Somethings are about quality and class and beauty and understated elegance.

Because I'm on the short side of tall wide brim western hats don't look good on me but If I ever hit 5'9" I'll have me a closet full of Stetson hats.

By way of consolation I do have 2 pair of Justin Ropers I bought at the Justin outlet store in Justin, Texas between I-35E and I-35W between Dallas and Denton Texas.

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Real men love cats!

What is a Raylon Givens?

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Front sight and squeeze

Two pieces of at least /2 inch plywood. You can mark the oval with needle tips then draw the circle and jigsaw out the holes...steam or spray and press brim and weight down a little....It will work...Hard to get a campaign had reblocked correctly any more now that Langenberg in Mo. has shut down their fur felt operation...Old MC campaign hats could be all top quality fur felt some were even Beaver..Langenberg made a lot of the Campaign hats..(covers) as did Stetson I'll bet you can buy a real hat press in the Ships Stores at PI or San Diego.

Main character in a television series called Justified. It is played by Timothy Oliphant, who is a US Marshall in KY. It is one of the few good series on TV.

"Bruce,
OK, OK, I'll do it. I'm calling Bull**** on that claim.
6 S&W's for just over 3 bills....

Chuck"


Seriously. I believe I still have the price list somewhere. I bought two dozen guns that day, only to get home to find out we had been burglarized and my Glock 31 stolen.

Well, I have the same hat but mine is blocked a little differently.

And, yep, Stetson's ain't cheap!!

You didn't lose anything, you were lucky.

Congratulations on your new acquisition. A Stetson is just a standard part of my daily wear. Here's one of the ones that I use for daily work around the place.


Then for dress-up occasions, I wear this or one of the others that are reserved for just those special functions.


You can't beat a good, quality, beaver fur felt hat...and they have a 150-year history to prove it.

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Pack light and cinch tight.

I brought a silverbelly Stetson in NM back in 1986 that I still have. Previously I had a black one that I gave away. I also have 3 Resistals; one silverbelly, one brown one I had since I got married, and a black one that is my favorite. I used to wear a lot of hatshats with a bluegrass band I played with. I heard one time that Resistal brought Stetson out at one time. Anyone know anything about that?

Boys,

A man's hat is more than simple piece of equipment...

It is as personal as any piece of apparel could be.



There's hats for Sunday wear, Ice-cream Socials and Goin' to Town.




When worn from day to day, it takes on it's own character and form.
As individual as the wearer himself.............

There's hats for everyday work;



A man's hat sez, "This is who I am."



Su Amigo,
Dave

P.S. 100% Beaver is the only way to go........

I'll plug my Hatter here, Jim Mackey of Shell Wyo. at Mackeycustomhats

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"IN GOD WE TRUST"

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Yep, that's it right there. Dave said it a lot better than I could've, but you get the idea.

Every so often, some bozo will try and grab your hat off your head...so you have to "educate" him. First rule...NEVER touch a man's hat!

Thanks, Dave, for saying what I was trying to say.

Chip

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Pack light and cinch tight.

jrm53--just curious, what style did you end up going with that matches the Justified hat? Is it the Catera?

I've been watching ebay for a nice vintage fedora. Nothing yet so far. Size is a problem. According to Stetson's chart, I need an 8! Apparently I have big head.

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Pray for Gridlock

According to FX, the hat used in the show is a Stetson Marshall.

Justified Stetson Tan Marshall Cowboy Hat

I find it hard to believe that Stetson...Spells Marshall.....This is a mans comman name...Marshal is a law-enforcement office proper spelling.......Unless there is a reason they must spell it that way...I think the guy on Justified is a Deputy U.S. Marshal.....Not that any real Deputy could get away with what he sometimes does....well maybe in outstate Texas..a few WAE deputies might have tried some of his stuff...O well it is a tv show....

Yup Goerge,

Not even in Texas....Nor Kentucky neither....

I know it's jest a tv show, but I find the whole thing is kinda stretching the blanket purty far.

I worked one of the last (maybe) murder cases and trials of the 'Cornbread Mafia'...
Although the last I heard Johnny Boone was still on the lam.

This character in this show 'Justified' would not of lasted too awful long in the real world hills of Eastern Kentucky.

Those folks don't cotton to strangers killin their kinfolk all that much.

Su Amigo,
Dave

That hat ain't all that bad lookin'....

But, when ya get right down to it...It's what under that ol hat that counts!

.

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Isn't that the truth...In the late 50's and 60's can you image that stuff in Hazard or Corbin or for that matter any where in Eastern Ky. What is really funny there is a federal joint now in Hazard...The first time we took a guy there I was astonished...Heck the Ky. State Policde didn't even like Hazard in the old day, and I might add the KSP wern't shy...O well It is a TV show...But sometimes....I remember in the 60''s cops up in Covington talking about Revenuers that just flat disappeard down that way....In those days Hazard was right on thunder road....Heck after turning straight many went right into stock car racing...They could drive down there, and had some real mechanic's........Youth it is wasted on the young....Keep dry!!!