Landman
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So we've got Akubras that run too big, and others that run too small. That's just like every other hat company (Borsalino is egregiously so). All individual hats in a production line probably have a "true size" distribution bell curve. It would probably be just too expensive to manufacture very exact hat sizes.
I was told by Hatsdirect it had to do with the old hat blocks they use to make each model. The Fed IV hat blocks tend to run smaller than the Campdraft hat blocks. That is why I wear a 59 in a Campdraft and a 60 in a Fed IV. I don't know about the other models Akubra makes.