Akubra Overload

[Historyteach24]

The reason I got the stockman was the website description of "Aussie form with narrower brim". I think that the band and the brim make it look like a good mixture between a bush hat and a understated outback hat

 

[javadave61]

I love my Stockman. Picked it up recently in an antique store for a great price. I am happy with the smaller brim size. It's my bad weather hat.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I also got it for the narrower brim. In this part of the country, wide-brimmed hats are pretty uncommon, and no matter what style they are, they just read as "cowboy hats" to most folks. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain that it's an Aussie outback hat, not an American western hat. Though the Stockman is indeed "smaller", it's still a big hat by the standards of the Northeast!

 

[Historyteach24]

I also got it for the narrower brim. In this part of the country, wide-brimmed hats are pretty uncommon, and no matter what style they are, they just read as "cowboy hats" to most folks. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain that it's an Aussie outback hat, not an American western hat. Though the Stockman is indeed "smaller", it's still a big hat by the standards of the Northeast!

Hell man I have people call my vintage stratoliner a cowboy hat they really flip out when I wear my 3 inch brim Akubra Tablelands

 

[RJR]

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[johnnycanuck]

Found Akubra hats on Instagram yesterday. A little surprised to see so many cattleman and cowboy style of hats. So I looked up the top sellers and this is what I found
http://akubra-usa.com/Akubra_News_June_2013.pdf
I find it interesting that not only do they keep track of style but colour. Also interesting light colours are popular. Black seemed the top of the list a few years ago and it seems to have done an about face.
Johnny

 

[Zombie_61]

Found Akubra hats on Instagram yesterday. A little surprised to see so many cattleman and cowboy style of hats...

Quite some time ago it was reported (probably here on The Lounge) that the majority of Akubra's "fedora style" hats were sold to customers in Europe and the U.S., and that everyone else around the world preferred "outback" hats.

...Also interesting light colours are popular.

Global warming?

 

[O'Sully]

Got the email last night my hat had shipped. 1-2 weeks was actually three days. Sam is the man.

 

[swd]

Well, I'm one US customer who prefers the "outback" style over the traditional fedora. Not that it really matters, of course...

 

[johnnycanuck]

I have to admit it that I am as well. Outside of going to work I seem to grab my Art crossover or one of my outback style of akubra. I guess I am a casual kind of guy.
Johnny

 

[Bad Co]

As much as I like the outback ,western and thin ribbon country casual styles
I'll gravitate towards the fedora almost every time

 

[Bob Roberts]

After 2 Camp Drafts I'm ready for a Squatter with a no pinch telescope crown factory bash.

 

[elvisroe]

Been a while, but I thought I'd add my most recent adoption.
Akubra Leasuretime.
Classic aussie styling with a stiff felt and a narrower brim than most of its genre. I had initially thought to replace the band but quite like the leather and feather combo. The crown is short but broad and I actually don't mind wearing it open with a slight pinch, although generally I add a light centre dent as in the pic.

 

[elvisroe]

...and just for good measure, here it is with the crown open with a pinch.

 

[RTM]

Thanks to the Lounge's exuberant recommendation of Akubras, I am experiencing a personal overload. The mailman just brought a Banjo Patterson and a bluegrass green Campdraft. Add the used Snowy River I bought off eBay since I placed my order with Everything Australian, and I have gone from zero to three Akubras in less than a month. Now I just have to bash the CD, but I may hold off on that a bit because there is something about the appearance of that open crown that tickles me.

 

[1mach1]

RTM, you are going to love that Campdraft. I wear my bluegrass green CD often. It takes to rain like a duck.

 

[Historyteach24]

Akubra stockman. My first true "Aussie" style hat with that huge swooped brim. I love it!

 

[O'Sully]

My Bobby arrived today.

 

[Historyteach24]

My Bobby arrived today.

Nice!

 

[O'Sully]

Thanks Matt,
I noticed you kept the feather in your Stockman.
I would have kept mine but my wife and daughter were adamantly against it.