From Stetson Facebook Posting...
STETSON FACT: in 1954, a $1,500 hat took a year to be created by 43 skilled workers dubbed "the world's most expensive hat" and was kept in a hand-tooled leather case (stewardess is sitting on the case below). The band was made of sterling silver fashioned into...
The Austral is a copy of the original Boss of the Plains that John B first sold = meant to be open crown & develop dents from use....
4.5 open crown is not much to do a telescope crease too. IMHO
I have a Gun Club with that liner that I bought new in the mid to late 1980's.
Stetson seemed to position the line to be between dress fedoras & westerns = outback & outdoors (hunters, fly-fishers, etc.)
Rugged but not rodeo....
Thanks Jared,
It will probably be a haphazard teardrop or diamond, nothing too uniform.
It is an amazing felt that feels lighter than my ArtLite Playboy.
I literally put it on my head open crown & crease it there....
Women's Lib & Sexual Harassment have changed the rules of "manners". No way I'd pull out a chair for a female at a meeting or stand when one enters or leaves the room as I was brought up to do. Tipping my hat is relatively the same thing. I learned manners from my grandparents & parents but...
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