PHIL1959
One of the Regulars
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- anchorsholme england
no,never.
Thanks I have one and use it often.Get a hat-stretcher. You can find them on Ebay for not too much cash and they work very well.
Akubra's felt just shrugs off rain and wet, that's not what shrinks them.
But won't any felt hat shrink if exposed to major heat? I've been careful never to leave any of my hats in the car with the windows closed and blazing sun for that reason.
it is not the felt that is shrinking it is the sweatbandI take very good care of my hats. I never leave in a hot car and when the hat gets wet I let in dry naturally in a room temp setting. I still get shrinkage though.
I've owned a half dozen or so. Ordered in my size, come labelled as such - bit too big for the first week or two ,then snug right up to a perfect fit. never noticed them get any smaller after that.
I like my Akubras, but I do think Akubra and their vendors could do a better job of informing their potential customers around the world that their sweatbands will shrink one-half to a full size once the customer starts wearing his/her new hat(s); it's apparently well known in Australia where Akubra has been doing business for over 100 years, but not so much anywhere else. If I hadn't done the research before I bought my first Akubra I would probably have been very disappointed by it's rather loose fit when it arrived, returned it for a smaller size, then been disappointed again when it shrank and was too small for me to wear....I'm not a huge fan of modern hats but I do own a number of them and my Akubra hats are the only ones I have experienced shrinkage with...