Lloyd said:But the chart in that link has some serious errors.
It says that anything from 21 7/8" to 24 5/8" is an American size 7.
The inches to metric seems to be OK
I have a Stetson Saxon in the color midnight.I wear it with a navy Ralph Lauren suit.Mr Vim said:does anyone have any navy or similar colored hats they wear? What colors do you wear it with? I'm curious to buy a fedora in that color but unsure.
The hat has a vacquero style to it mainly because a Buckaroo is a cowboy of the vaquero tradition of the Great Basin and California region.1961MJS said:Hi
I was looking at several custom cowboy hat sites and one had a section of "Buckaroo hats".
http://www.northvalleyhatco.com/buckaroohats.html
O.K., I know what they look like now. They look to me like the original "Boss of the Plains" type of Stetson that was the basis of the company. So, what's the basis of the name "Buckaroo Hat"? I found the name several places, but nothing on why? I DO understand where Homburg came from, Derby, etc. I also understand that this isn't the cowboy forum. lol
Thanks, just curious
hatophile said:Buckaroo is really the English corruption of vaquero, hence a buckaroo hat is a vaquero or cowboy hat. I like some of the styles on that website, the prices look fairly reasobable.
Chinaski said:Hey, that actually seems to make sense. I've never heard this etymology before. Thanks for posting...
Rick Blaine said:Yeah, we stole allot more than just puny ole Texas!
Irish4 said:One of the sug. to keep the hat looking so high up on my melon was to try a bigger size,ok cool,I get it,but if the hat I have is a size 7,and my measurement is 22 1/8,this falls into the Med. category in the size chart.so how do you get a hat that is a size bigger?
scottyrocks said:I have a number of (vintage) hats with bound brims. They are all snap brims. I don’t particularly care for snap-brims, but I liked the hats when I bought them. So here is my question:
If I were to remove the binding, would the edge of the brim relax enough for a hat like this to no longer be a snap brim? Or will the brim just go all fushimmeled without the support of the binding?
Im not sure I want to try this on a vintage hat simply because it is vintage even though I don’t care for them with their present brim characteristics. But I’d still like to know. Maybe I’ll pick one hat to experiment on.