SHOW US YOUR FAVORITE HAT

[mod34]

So, all are safely tucked in and I've poured myself a decent class of good bourbon and pealed a few tangelos and thought I would start a thread about our favorite hat. Here is mine to kick things off. Not vintage (out of Orvis), but destined to be. The added bonus is that it is made right here in the Good Ol' USofA!

 

[CH47gunner]

I gave up on the easily portable baseball hats after badly sunburning the back of my neck.
This has been my fav for the last few years. Pic was taken at the Laguna Seca Moto GP, last year.

Bruce

 

[Texas Star]

CH47 Gunner has one like mine. I put a 3-D silver or pewter Atlantic salmon pin on the band. It looks very real, superb detail.

I also have a brown one in felt. Looks a lot like the hat that Will Snow wore as Lord John Roxton on the TV series "The Lost World." But his hat was made by Akubra and is probably better quality.

T-Star

 

[mod34]

I gave up on the easily portable baseball hats after badly sunburning the back of my neck.
This has been my fav for the last few years. Pic was taken at the Laguna Seca Moto GP, last year.

Bruce

I would love to visit Laguna Seca someday....and run a few laps!

 

[BE Mike]

This is my new fav. I have rosacea so keeping the sun off my face is a good thing. I also like to keep my head warm in the cold weather. I got it on a trip to Yellowstone in June as the straw hat wasn't cutting it. It is a Stetson Wildwood. It is made of wool, is crushable and water repellent. Another plus is that it is made here in the good ole USA.

 

[snake charmer]

This is the one I'm wearing today, might change tomorrow.

 

[BE Mike]

A cap is a cap, it ain't a hat. A hat is a hat.

 

[CigarGuy]

NO ball CAPS in my collection...
Got the black Akubra Federation Deluxe on today. There are only 3-4 months in Florida that I can wear the fur felts, so must take advantage!

 

[feralmerril]

This thread got me wondering. I just looked in the hall closet and took stock. Things are out of hand! I counted 17 baseball type caps and 9 western hats (2 of them straw) and a old dress uniform 9 point bus driver type. I usualy wear a old charlie one horse stetson but its got a torn brim. I also wear a james dean stingy brim stetson a lot, but that one I wear with the brim straight and front turned down like guys did in the 40s.
I raised a mentaly challanged nephew that always wanted to be "A cowboy". These are my very last pictures of him. Coincidently I was giveing him a "Tom Mix" real stetson and my wife took the picture. He died a couple months later. I took the hat back, but it doesnt look as good on me!

 

[Texas Star]

This thread got me wondering. I just looked in the hall closet and took stock. Things are out of hand! I counted 17 baseball type caps and 9 western hats (2 of them straw) and a old dress uniform 9 point bus driver type. I usualy wear a old charlie one horse stetson but its got a torn brim. I also wear a james dean stingy brim stetson a lot, but that one I wear with the brim straight and front turned down like guys did in the 40s.
I raised a mentaly challanged nephew that always wanted to be "A cowboy". These are my very last pictures of him. Coincidently I was giveing him a "Tom Mix" real stetson and my wife took the picture. He died a couple months later. I took the hat back, but it doesnt look as good on me!

That looks a lot like the hat that mystery author C.J. Box wears. He's from Wyoming, and his main character is a game warden.

T-Star

 

[feralmerril]

A western wear store was closeing up and I belive I bought that for half price or less! I thought I might join one of those cowboy sass shoots someday, but never have. Back around 1963 I was in rosswell new mexico in a clothing store ran by some old man at least 80 years old. He pulled out a old stetson box with a half inch dust on it. I bought a beautifull old stetson that probley was made between 1900 and 1930? It was my favorite. One rainey day I left my dogs in the house, came back and it looked like a welders beenie!

 

[Blacksmith58]

For when it's really cold!

For pictures!

 

[Pop's2]

this is a "Brent" sold at Sears I think; about 40-50 years ago.
My wife doesn't like it....say's it makes me look old.....well I turned 70 a week ago so I think I qualify

 

[Wayne02]

This one.

 

[Iggy]

Got this Resistol for my 21st birthday.

 

[macbullet]

 

[buckeyeshooter1]

Now this is a HAT!

 

[blujax01]

Although I regularly wear a Dobbs fedora or a Biltmore pork pie this leather ivy cap is my favorite. The gentleman on the right is Allie Cougle, Master Cymbal Smith who had just finished making me a couple of nice pies.

 

[snake charmer]

A cap is a cap, it ain't a hat. A hat is a hat.

It's what I wear.

 

[michael thornton]

mac where did you get that? i need one!