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Getting back to this with a purely hypothetical example: if you take a pristine vintage featherweight or lite weight Beaver felt hat & shrink it down one or two sizes in ice water condensing & thickening the felt, cut down & re sew the sweat, do you still have a featherweight when finished? Will it block exactly like it did when original? It still says featherweight in the liner. Does that really add to your collection? Make you a titan?...preserving what is rare and unusual.
If you trim the brim & fedora down a Stetson One-hundred to make it look "less cowboy" haven't you changed a rare hat forever?