jlee562
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A little tea kettle steaming /reshaping into a fedora style and I'm golden !!!!~
P.S. If you look inside the brim where your forehead would go, you can make out "open road "
I don't think a lot of people picked up on that !
Fashion Frank,
Congratulations on your find. I'm jealous. But just a quick question. I'm new to the world of hats though I have been wearing cheap fedoras for some time now. I am uninitiated in the ways of the felt. I have seen a few Stetson Open Roads on eBay which were cowboy style and some that were fedora style. It seems you are implying that through the use of steam, you can reshape a cowboy to a fedora. Is this correct? Are there any (4X or otherwise) on which you could not do this?
I appreciate whatever wisdom you can impart.
And again, nice snipe.
Adrian[/QUOTE]
You might not even need steam with some of those old hats. But yes, a good fur felt hat should be able to take a new crease. The caveat is that sometimes felt has a bit of a "memory" and likes to fall back into where it was. A reblock often fixes this significantly.