Brim shaping?

[gtdean48]

I am sure this has been covered but I didn't find anything recent but wanted to see the thoughts out there.

I prefer the transition point from the front of the brim being turned down to the back being turned up somewhere at the middle of the ribbon bow or slightly behind it (right above my ear). I've seen some with it way forward of the bow & it seems to block one of the beauties of a hat, the ribbon treatment & where pins are usually placed.

I also prefer the back to be subtley turned up, almost like a pencil curl & not a full snap of the brim.

Here is an example with the new Stetson Sovereign Roadmaster that I just received. No comments on the feathers, they have already left!

Other thoughts & preferences???

 

[billysmom]

The instructions that came with my Resistol state that the brim should be snapped "ear to ear", for what it's worth..

Sue

 

[gtdean48]

Thanks Sue = straight from the experts!

 

[Duper]

Hi billysmom, You are just "brimming" with good info. I guess I have been doing it wrong and will try the recommended fashion.

I wish I had read the "avoid stacking" instruction sooner. I received a new Stetson Temple a few weeks back and I carelessly stacked another hat on it. It is common sense but I was in a hurry to get out the door and a hat fell on the floor so I rushed and put it back on top of the Temple on my now crowded hat rack.

It did leave a bit of a hair oil transfer. Hopefully it will fade some in time.

 

[theinterchange]

Wouldn't that be subject to the personal style you interject into your hats when shaping them? It is for me at least.

Grabbing the closest hat to me, a Adventure Supply/Lee Keppler Indy hat that I've rebashed a few times, the downward motion to the brim starts about 3/4 of an inch or so from the front of the crown on that one. And I find it works/suits me well.

Besides... are we gonna let someone tell us how we should wear our hats?

Randy

 

[gtdean48]

Wouldn't that be subject to the personal style you interject into your hats when shaping them? ...
Randy

Exactly Randy, my "experts" reply to Sue was totally sarcastic or at least meant to be!
The thread was definitely meant for folks to discuss preferences & show why they are suited by them...

 

[billysmom]

Exactly Randy, my "experts" reply to Sue was totally sarcastic or at least meant to be!
The thread was definitely meant for folks to discuss preferences & show why they are suited by them...

:arated:

Every hat and every face is different. One style does not fit all!

Sue

 

[theinterchange]

I was guessing you meant that in a sarcastic way, but wasn't 100% sure.

It would look awkward were I to take my hats off in the manner they suggest, too. I kind of pop it from behind and lightly cup the front of the crown with the other hand.

Randy

 

[CRH]

Ahhh, yes, the swooptitude... the snappy dappy doo... the shear briminalness of it all...

After some consideration of how often my brims go up and down I have come up with this:

HAIL THE WIND

for it is your master

 

[RBH]

Thats the style brim I like, you did good on it. :eusa_clap

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

Ahhh, yes, the swooptitude... the snappy dappy doo... the shear briminalness of it all...

After some consideration of how often my brims go up and down I have come up with this:

HAIL THE WIND

for it is your master

Interesting CRH....Visual balance to the snapped up brim is achieved by snapped down specs!

 

[daizawaguy]

:eusa_clap

 

[Mr. Paladin]

I have noticed too, on some of mine, that even with a steam reshape, the flanging of the brim does not allow the break to go back as far as the bow center. When I have forced it, the brim does not respond well and wants to warp or ripple until I put it back where it wants to be. My vintage Whippet is a prime example of this.

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

Difficult subject, I believe. There's "wanting" the brim to be this or that way, snapping here and not there, and then there's that hat there seemingly with a mind all its own, like the (more or less, sometimes but not always) wavy toquilla (no, not tequila ) brim that's so difficult to "set straight".

Another element in the shaping of a brim, and I'm referring here to "front (snapped) down" + "poop curled up", is the transition zone between the twain. There's often a kind of torsion there, and it's by no means easy, nor foreseeable, exactly how front + transition + rear will "curve", and whether the result will be to your liking, or not. Hats are often quite different in how they "behave" in this respect. Like, I have a Stetson XXXXXXX (supposedly a grand hat) that just doesn't "do" it, and will never be a favorite hat of mine, and then there's other hats that just seem perfect and, in fact, allow the brims to be subtly changed, great stuff.

I gather the key word here would be "flange". I don't really know nor understand what the term means exactly, so if any board member could explain to me what the technicalities of "flanging" are, I'd much appreciate...

Paul

 

[Boodles]

Thanks for posting the card

Interesting recommendations. From ear to ear, I like that.

The instructions that came with my Resistol state that the brim should be snapped "ear to ear", for what it's worth..

Sue

 

[zetwal]

Hail the Wind. I like that! Great wisdom needs no polishing, Grasshopper.

 

[gtdean48]

I have noticed too, on some of mine, that even with a steam reshape, the flanging of the brim does not allow the break to go back as far as the bow center. When I have forced it, the brim does not respond well and wants to warp or ripple until I put it back where it wants to be. My vintage Whippet is a prime example of this.

Interesting. I have never had this with all the bound edges I own. I pop it down all the way around, steam the topside of the brim very well & adjust it how I want it with no warping or rippling. The steam makes it as malleable as the crown for creasing... [huh]

 

[High Pockets]

I had no idea my Dobbs Twenty "Westward" has got a tire shaped brim.

I found it out the hard way,......the other day while pheasant hunting up in the Oklahoma panhandle, (so flat you can really see Texas, Colorado and Kansas from the top of any prairy-dog mound),.......that danged 30mph north wind blew it off my head and sent it rolling down the dirt road on it's brim so far we had to load back up in the truck to just chase it down.

I actually raised my shotgun to shoot the damned thing just to stop it from rolling away!

 

[Mario]

...that danged 30mph north wind blew it off my head and sent it rolling down the dirt road on it's brim so far we had to load back up in the truck to just chase it down.

I actually raised my shotgun to shoot the damned thing just to stop it from rolling away!

lol lol lol :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Sometimes extreme measures need to be taken...

 

[suitedcboy]

I have an elongated long oval noggin and the shaping of the brims of my hats is limited by that. Most all of my fedoras end up with the "snap" of the front of brim being far forward and the brim having a horizontal area just at break to crown and the snap being more of a curl.
A couple of examples: