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Late 40’s would be my best from what I can see…
Turn of the century…1900ish
Just picked this Derby / Bowler up the other day. Hat is in fantastic shape. Rip in center of the liner. No size tag. The sweatband is of really good quality. I'm Looking to try to get a ballpark date for this hat. It really is spectacular. View attachment 387795 View attachment 387796 View attachment 387797 View attachment 387798 View attachment 387799 View attachment 387800
Deleted!Nice hat Jack, but this thread is for the 3X STETSON....only.
Hence
Derby, Western, Fedora...a Venerable Legend, THE Stetson 3X...BEFORE 1970!!!!
Trying to promote the history of the STETSON hat, when they still were making them.
Stetson Amon Carter Shady Oak Farm in 3X. Amon Carter Sr. died in 1955. His son Amon Carter Jr. continued his father’s tradition of giving hats to dignitaries & special guests at the farm for a couple of yrs longer. Amon Carter Jr. died in 1982.
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Something different for the thread, 3 ladies riding derby's sometimes called cob hats (short derby's, popular in the mid to late 19th century by young men and women). These are from the mid 30's and were quite popular at the time (Ginger Rogers is shown in several movies in a riding suit and cob hat). Rather than being stiff, these are thin and SOFT!!! Simply wonderful felt.
Unusual (for women's hats) these have short textured leather sweats and are fully lined. Still worn with a hat pin (sometimes a ribbon) to keep in place these were quite stylish and interesting colors (red with brown trim, light grey with black trim, and powder blue with dark grey ribbon and powder blue binding).
I have never seen another example and now I have three (from the same source). I DO have a picture of my grandmother wearing one of these style hats with her horse and in full equestrian garb of the time (1930's).
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Something different for the thread, 3 ladies riding derby's sometimes called cob hats (short derby's, popular in the mid to late 19th century by young men and women). These are from the mid 30's and were quite popular at the time (Ginger Rogers is shown in several movies in a riding suit and cob hat). Rather than being stiff, these are thin and SOFT!!! Simply wonderful felt.
Unusual (for women's hats) these have short textured leather sweats and are fully lined. Still worn with a hat pin (sometimes a ribbon) to keep in place these were quite stylish and interesting colors (red with brown trim, light grey with black trim, and powder blue with dark grey ribbon and powder blue binding).
I have never seen another example and now I have three (from the same source). I DO have a picture of my grandmother wearing one of these style hats with her horse and in full equestrian garb of the time (1930's).
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VERY SOFT......(as women's hats always were..... outside a western)...and YES the colors (other than the dove grey, which is seen in men's hats) are quite remarkable as are the linings. I like the linings as much as the hats.Awesome little catch. How soft are they? Those are pretty special, especially the colors.
PS I think they are early 40s, do they have reorder tags?
Thanks Randy!!A rare find, indeed! A very nice group.
In the style Kim Darby wore in the original True Grit.Something different for the thread, 3 ladies riding derby's sometimes called cob hats (short derby's, popular in the mid to late 19th century by young men and women). These are from the mid 30's and were quite popular at the time (Ginger Rogers is shown in several movies in a riding suit and cob hat). Rather than being stiff, these are thin and SOFT!!! Simply wonderful felt.
Unusual (for women's hats) these have short textured leather sweats and are fully lined. Still worn with a hat pin (sometimes a ribbon) to keep in place these were quite stylish and interesting colors (red with brown trim, light grey with black trim, and powder blue with dark grey ribbon and powder blue binding).
I have never seen another example and now I have three (from the same source). I DO have a picture of my grandmother wearing one of these style hats with her horse and in full equestrian garb of the time (1930's).
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Very unusual addition.....that liner was not really seen on westerns outside an OR (true westerns used the "Last Drop" liner).....and that sweat with the "Selv-Edge" markings indicates a glued proccess welt edge (found on fedoras), which this hat does not have. Even the blocking tag is unusual. I wonder if it was a rebuild or cleaning job with mixed components. Nice find!Stumbled on this thread and thought I’d contribute a cowboy hat.
My guess on the date is late 50s, early 60s.
Bill
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