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[Winston Carter]

I live in Houston and discovered unless your looking for an off the shelf cowboy hat your out of luck. The Hat Store has cowboy hats and a couple of straw fedoras, all at high retail.

If your staying in the Galleria area you have to get BBQ at Luling City Market. It's 5 minutes away.

I thought Miller Hats was a good co. I have looked at their website and their hats look good and priced good too. I did buy a yellow acorn calvary hat band from them and had fast delivery.

 

[Winston Carter]

Forgot to add this.. Sunbody Hats is great for Straw/Panama hats. Houston looks pretty good to me for hats. I would shop Miller and Sunbody if I lived there.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Forgot to add this.. Sunbody Hats is great for Straw/Panama hats. Houston looks pretty good to me for hats. I would shop Miller and Sunbody if I lived there.

I don’t remember SunBody making Panama hats or straw hats. All I’ve seen are palm hats. I have a couple of SunBody hats and for the money they serve their purpose, but they aren’t what you’d call refined.


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[ruvort]

I'd love to know more about these hats. Any insight on the period they were produced, quality, and old advertisements would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

Edited for additional pictures.

 

[jlee562]

I'd love to know more about these hats. Any insight on the period they were produced, quality, and old advertisements would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

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Well, you're going to need to post more pics. The Stetsonian was offered in varying configurations from early on in the century continuing through to the modern day.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/nothing-but-stetson-ads.45495/
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...rtising-and-ephemera-of-the-golden-era.92141/

 

[ruvort]

Well, you're going to need to post more pics. The Stetsonian was offered in varying configurations from early on in the century continuing through to the modern day.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/nothing-but-stetson-ads.45495/
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...rtising-and-ephemera-of-the-golden-era.92141/

Understandable. I edited my post with additional pictures.

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[jlee562]

Understandable. I edited my post with additional pictures.

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Well, the last pic confirmed my suspicions, 60's. 3x is a well regarded felt quality that fell near the middle of Stetson's pricing at the time. I don't know that we specifically have seen an ad for your iteration, but both links have Stetsonian ads, so you can see where yours fits in the evolution. As is common with hats of the 60's, this one has a shorter brim and lower crown.

 

[Winston Carter]

I'd love to know more about these hats. Any insight on the period they were produced, quality, and old advertisements would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

Edited for additional pictures.

I have seen 1 Hawthorn on the internet that says it is 1962. Love the wide ribbon.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I have seen 1 Hawthorn on the internet that says it is 1962. Love the wide ribbon.

Is Hawthorn the name of the color? I have no idea.


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[Hat Masterson]

Just got a new fur felt and it has kind of a slight chemical smell...offgassing? Anyone have this before? Made in the good ol' USA but it is velour, which I've never had before.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Just got a new fur felt and it has kind of a slight chemical smell...offgassing? Anyone have this before? Made in the good ol' USA but it is velour, which I've never had before.

I had a custom made by Staker Hats that had a strong chemical smell. As bad as the smell was it wasn’t the biggest problem with that hat. I got rid of the hat before I could see if the smell would go away. I have a couple of Tonak velour custom hats and there wasn’t any smell.


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[Zombie_61]

Just got a new fur felt and it has kind of a slight chemical smell...offgassing? Anyone have this before? Made in the good ol' USA but it is velour, which I've never had before.

All of my Akubra hats arrived with at least a hint of a chemical smell that I assume was caused by the stiffener they use. It went away after I shaped the hats and wore them for a day or three.

 

[Winston Carter]

Is Hawthorn the name of the color? I have no idea.


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I think Hawthorn is the name. The hat I saw was blue. It looked just like the one above with wide ribbon.

 

[scottyrocks]

Just got a new fur felt and it has kind of a slight chemical smell...offgassing? Anyone have this before? Made in the good ol' USA but it is velour, which I've never had before.

Post a picture so we can take a sniff.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I think Hawthorn is the name. The hat I saw was blue. It looked just like the one above with wide ribbon.

Stetsonian is the model so I’m not sure what Hawthorn is.

 

[scottyrocks]

I was just doing a little research. There's not much out there on this.

I saw a couple of different styles of Stetson with the word Hawthorn attached to them. They were also different colors.

If I was to take a semieducated guess, I'd say that Hawthorn is sort of a 'subname,' used, perhaps, as a status, or prestige thing, as Hawthorn is one of those types of names.

Look how many completely different Dobbs hats used the name Game Bird. Perhaps Hawthorn was a designation Stetson used to separate this Stetsonian from others using the Stetsonian name. The word Stetsonian sounds prestigious. I can see how they'd want to use it on multiple styles of hats.

Of course, this is all just speculation.

 

[Winston Carter]

Stetsonian is the model so I’m not sure what Hawthorn is.

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[deadlyhandsome]

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https://ebg.ge/item/132681120654

So, it could be the color?

Edit: I just saw Scotty’s post about Hawthorn being used on different color hats. No clue what it means.

 

[Tukwila]

Looks brown to me. I'd say Hawthorn is the color designation or, as @scottyrocks says, a subset style within the Stetsonian model. Stetsonian is the model.

 

[Winston Carter]

So, it could be the color?

Edit: I just saw Scotty’s post about Hawthorn being used on different color hats. No clue what it means.

I guess Hawthorne was a Blue/Grey color in 60's.