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It looks 70's to 80's to me. Especially if that is the original hat box.
Square size tags like that did start showing up in the mid 1960's but that box, sweat & liner are more recent than that....
Unless you have receipts for added provenience, precision is limited to decades......
It seems there's a growing consensus around 1970s/80s - which was my original guesstimate. But is anyone willing to be more precise?
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I just wish we could get this nailed down. You say 1970, this other site says 1971. Others say Stetson sold the naming rights in 1974.
http://www.philaplace.org/story/326/
"The Stetson plant in Philadelphia closed in 1971 following decades of changing fashions and economics."
1984 is quite a lot earlier than "the 1990s" as stated above. So, we are starting to edge closer to my thought that Stetson hats started using the metric size tag after the original company had shut down in the 70s and sold the naming rights.Here's a shot of the new Stetson-branded hat I purchased from Cottrell's in Denver in early 1984, for reference, so metric sizes were in use by that point.
Brad