monbla256
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I went to the Saturday afternoon horse show and rodeo at the Southwestern Stock Show in Ft. Worth this weekend and wore my Bushman while helping my friends show their Fine Harness horse. The ONLY fedora style hats I saw were on the heads of the American Saddlebred, Tennessee Walker and Morgan exhibiter males.
As far as the breakdown of hat styles and colors in the stands and on the grounds, I'd have to say 95% were western felts, 5% "gimme" caps. Style wise things break down to age brackets with my generation (50 -up) favoring LBJ's, & Ft. Worth creased Rancher styles with probably 90% in Silverbelly the rest in Black.
In the 30/40s yo's a bit larger brimmed Cattleman creased westerns with about a 50/50 split btw, Silverbelly/Black.
It was in the younger 20 somethings that I saw the biggest variety of styles and colors. I saw lots of Gus creased Buckaroo styles in a wide variety of colors from browns to black with most in the 4 " + brim widths.
I remember back in the '60s when all the girls wore shiney bright colored "cowgirl" outfits with tight pants, matching boots and felt hats dyed to match the pants and shirts/jackets. Not many of those today.
There were other Akubra's on the heads of some of the Aussie exhibitors I met, mainly Cattleman and Territory sized and styled in mostly the Fawn colors and most with some sort of braided Kangaroo leather hat band.
Was an interesting hat filled day
Onward thru the Fog
As far as the breakdown of hat styles and colors in the stands and on the grounds, I'd have to say 95% were western felts, 5% "gimme" caps. Style wise things break down to age brackets with my generation (50 -up) favoring LBJ's, & Ft. Worth creased Rancher styles with probably 90% in Silverbelly the rest in Black.
In the 30/40s yo's a bit larger brimmed Cattleman creased westerns with about a 50/50 split btw, Silverbelly/Black.
It was in the younger 20 somethings that I saw the biggest variety of styles and colors. I saw lots of Gus creased Buckaroo styles in a wide variety of colors from browns to black with most in the 4 " + brim widths.
I remember back in the '60s when all the girls wore shiney bright colored "cowgirl" outfits with tight pants, matching boots and felt hats dyed to match the pants and shirts/jackets. Not many of those today.
There were other Akubra's on the heads of some of the Aussie exhibitors I met, mainly Cattleman and Territory sized and styled in mostly the Fawn colors and most with some sort of braided Kangaroo leather hat band.
Was an interesting hat filled day
Onward thru the Fog
