Sam Craig
One Too Many
- Messages
- 1,356
- Location
- Great Bend, Kansas
I haven't EVER had to buy ANY Akubra two sizes big to fit after wearing in the rain in over 30 years. Buy your size
I've got 8 of the suckers now ... thanks to folks like the kind gentleman quoted above who encouraged me when I was considering a Squatter of a Bushman (get them both, he advised) ...
We have pretty much forgotten what rain is out here, so I could wear a construction paper hat without worry.
But I have reshaped several of mine using a mist-spritzer and that includes my Kokoda, on which I reflanged the brim so that it was less of a safari and more of a snap brim ... sort of like my Bushman. It's a Bushman Lite.
Anyway, even the Kokoda, which was wet down repeatedly during the shaping process, have failed to change in size. In fact, I have been very impressed with their versatility and the way they will take a reshaping ... a pretty servere one, in the case of the Kokoda.
I also recreased my Pastoralist so that it would mimic my Campdraft, which took a bit of doing, but, again, it didn't affect the size at all.
If it ever DOES start to rain out here, I've got all sorts of "super-fedoras" I've made out of former western hats that will take the rain just fine, but I certainly would not be concerned about wearing my Akubras out in it.
By the way ... the rain in Spain may stay mainly on the plain, but out here we could use some. I talked to a farmer the other day who was praying for hail just so he could get some moisture out of it.
Semi Serious Sam