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We often call them "broads" in the States.
Skirts hate it when you call 'em broads.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
We often call them "broads" in the States.
I prefer "babes".Skirts hate it when you call 'em broads.
Sent directly from my mind to yours.
Here's a wonderful article from a 1917 edition of "The American Hatter." It explains how they cleaned felt hats back then.
Does anyone have copies of these images? I'd love to see them.
I had a stetson 7X clear beaver that looked just like your hat and it came in a green stetson box like your pictured. What grade is your hatKitty litter cleaning
I think several companies make it, but the one I have is made by scout. It's called a spot remover. It literally looks like kitty litter, but basically you put a little bit of it on the spot you want to remove and rub the granules in small circles and it takes the spot out. I pushed the crown in a little to form a dish and then put the granules in it and then rubbed them around and it did wonders to get rid of the old crease marks. It was shaped like a regular cowboy hat and I changed it to a front pinch. The old lines showed up pretty bad until I used the granules. They worked better than the Naptha. I found this product at a western store that had lotsa hats and other cleaning products.
Here's a pic. You can hardly tell they are there.
fedoralover
Hi all,
Today I was walking next to some water wearing my modern Stetson Stratoliner in Silverbelly when a gust of wind blew it off my head and into the water. I was luckily able to retrieve it before it floated away but it did sustain a few dirt smudges and the underside of the hat was quite wet. Would anyone be able to give me some advice on the best ways to clean dirt from a Stetson fur felt hat in Silverbelly? Also any advice on what I should do to avoid damage from the salt water would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
Well...how wet is "quite wet?"
If the hat was not soaked through the the core, soaking it through to the core with a garden hose seems a bit much to me. I don't know that a modern hatco hat would come through looking so fresh after a treatment like that, especially if one does not have their own block.
I agree with using fresh water/distilled water to clean the hat. I had an akubra get splashed with whale water (salt and urine) at Sea World. Only the top of the hat got splashed and showed salt water marks once dry. I cleaned it by submerging the hat (top only) in water and gently scrubbing with a hat sponge while it was under water. It worked.
The whale just had that look in his eye, Charlie.How do you know there was whale urine, and what was the ratio of water/urine, Dennis?
This begs the question, do whales (or fish) get thirsty?!