Hat Storage Advice

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I saw the hat from across the room, planted atop a pole in the crowded antique store. I knew in an instant what it was and that if it fit, I wanted it. A shopper was milling about looking at items all around. "Oh please don't look up," I thought. With social distancing in place, I had to wait my turn to enter the booth. As soon as she left I swooped in to make the grab. A vintage Stetson Open Road Twenty, size 7 1/4. Dented and bashed more like a traditional fedora as opposed to its traditional cattleman's crease, perhaps shoppers, and the booth owner didn't know what they had. A little bit of steam and shaping and I'm now the owner of a fantastic looking hat.

I have the Fedora Lounge members to thank. I've been eyeing this particular hat for some time. Reading everything I can find about it. Stetson ads are fine, but your extended knowledge is priceless.

Now that it has found its new home I want to take care of it the best I can, which leads me to my question. How do y'all make DIY boxes/containers for your hats? Attached are photos of my attempt, using a plastic file box, a cut-out side of yet another plastic tote and cardboard, cut with slots.

Please show me what you've come up with!

Not just any old OR but The Sovereign Open Road Twenty!
I can only think of a couple three around here with that liner. The felt is wonderful, the liner elegant, quite a nice find and a couple steps up the Open Road ladder.
Enjoy.
B
Ps: welcome to the lounge young man. Making boxes will get old fast if you hang around long.

 

[suitedcboy]

have no idea where you are from profile but if there is a western store anywhere around you likely can get a hat box for very little. A lot of western hat buyers buy a hat and leave the box. Those hatboxes will have the rolled cardboard with a cardboard flange so the hat sits on the brim just at the crown flange. This assures the brim nor the crown will be disturbed.

 

[RAH]

Thanks. I think so. $34 well spent. I got lucky on it for sure. And then not too long ago I picked up a gray Cavanagh for $4.50 at a thrift shop. It was beat bashed in and hasn't got a liner. This probably led to the seller not knowing what to price it at. Again, lucky for me. Now, unwittingly, I've got the two most famous hats from Bob Jackson's Lee Harvey Oswald shooting photo. Kind of strange I know.

 

[RAH]

Not just any old OR but The Sovereign Open Road Twenty!
I can only think of a couple three around here with that liner. The felt is wonderful, the liner elegant, quite a nice find and a couple steps up the Open Road ladder.
Enjoy.
B
Ps: welcome to the lounge young man. Making boxes will get old fast if you hang around long.

 

[RAH]

Thanks for the welcome! I picked up a Sterilite brand plastic file box yesterday at a thrift store for $2.50. These fit the fedoras I have (a black vintage Stetson Eagle and gray Cavanagh) quite nicely. I made a hat holder, so to speak, from a politician's yard side that had been sitting along the road where I walk my dog since November. Don't know if he won or lost but by now he should have picked up that sign. Better to repurpose it for the hatbox than let it sit there forever.