"It isn't a @*$%> cowboy hat"

[monbla256]

If that's a Strat you are correct

 

[Rick Blaine]

If that's a Strat you are correct

....sorry, a Borsalino Alessandria. Or a cappello de ragazzo della mucca !

 

[alanfgag]

Western with spaghetti strap.

 

[John in Covina]

I get the cowboy hat comment every once in a while usually a little kid say under 7 y.o. will ask if it is a cowboy hat or if I rode a horse to the mall. Usually don't get a rude comments. Girls in their teens (even in their teens mentally while in their 30's giggle but it is a response the the estrogen psychosis they suffer from.

 

[RBH]

My favorite 'western' style fedora.
From 1949.

 

[ShortAndCashed]

I was wearing my stingy brim Cavanagh, and a girl on the sidewalk commented on my "top hat" and I simply said "it's not a top hat, but thanks!" No hurt feelings and I got a chuckle, so it's all good. But, I knew from the beginning that wearing a decent hat in a town with literally no culture would be difficult... Most people here think Stetson is a style of hat, not a maker...

 

[monbla256]

I was wearing my stingy brim Cavanagh, and a girl on the sidewalk commented on my "top hat" and I simply said "it's not a top hat, but thanks!" No hurt feelings and I got a chuckle, so it's all good. But, I knew from the beginning that wearing a decent hat in a town with literally no culture would be difficult... Most people here think Stetson is a style of hat, not a maker...

Welcome to the world as it is

 

[John in Covina]

Today so few people know anything about hats. It could be a subject on Jeopardy.

Hats for $100.

 

[Sam Craig]

My heroes have always been cowboys.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.

What's so bad about bein' a cowboy, anyway?

"When you call me that, smile."

Stampede Sam

 

[cooncatbob]

You can excuse people for being ignorant but there's really no excuse for ignorant and rude.

 

[ShortAndCashed]

Um... It's becoming difficult to find even a wool hat in a department store... Most are polyester and cotton... A hat wrinkles now...

 

[Duck]

I can see where people get the cowboy hat idea. Look at the westerns of the late 50's and early 60's and you won't see many cattleman's creases. Most of the hats you see will have a teardrop or a modified teardrop crease and a smaller brim. The cattleman's crease, that you see everywhere today, has just became the popular look in the last 30 years. Hell, in the 80's I hardly saw one, as most of the hats had the crease now known as a Canadian crease.

 

[Joe Rotax]

I’ve been wearing this one pretty much every day since April - still waiting for the felt version to arrive for winter - should be here this week I hope. They aren’t that common round here anymore as most wear ball caps now but I never get any comments from people one way or another which is just fine with me. Cattle crease is the only style I like. Only time I’ll wear a ball cap is if I’m working on one of our race cars.

 

[TopGumby]

I wear a Resistol San Antonio with a teardrop crease sometimes. My wife calls it "the cowboy hat", and when I asked her why, she said it's the color and the "tallness", along with the "shoelace ribbon". Who am I to argue, she nailed all the identifying features.

I've never gotten the cowboy comment with the OR clone other than from the wife. Maybe I ought to wear spurs to go with it?

 

[Henry Gondorff]

I get the cowboy comment very often - no matter what sort of hat I'm wearing (and I don't even own a cowboy hat; just fedoras, one pork pie and the next one will be a bowler). In the beginning it made me angry, now I can deal with it. I just don't care anymore.

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

I don't get the cowboy remark that often (whereas I'd be proud to be called a cowboy); mostly the other one, you know that Spielberg creation: now that, I don't like.

 

[Sam Craig]

This the last cowboy song:
The end of a hundred year waltz.
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along.
Another piece of America's lost.

He rides the feed lots, clerks in the markets,
On weekends sellin' tobacco and beer.
And his dreams of tomorrow, surrounded by fences,
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here.

He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark,
And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed down.
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas.
And rode with the 7th when Custer went down.

This the last cowboy song:
The end of a hundred year waltz.
The voices sound sad as they're singin' along.
Another piece of America's lost


Catch the drift, pilgrim ... if someone calls you a cowboy ... how ever an ignoramous may MEAN it, if just IS a compliment.

No one will EVER call you anything that is more of a compliment.

Just tip yer Stetson and say "Thank you m'am" and saunter off into the sunset.

You are lucky to be tied to these heroes in any way.

Stampede Sam

 

[Cicero]

I don't get the cowboy remark that often (whereas I'd be proud to be called a cowboy);.

I live in Belgium too.
And just like you the remarks are seldom here.

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

Hey, Cicero. Yep, I live in Belgium (except just found a job -not as cowboy, though- in Breda, so weekdays I'm in the Netherlands) but then Breda's Brabant, too.
Stampede Sam (aka Sam Craig) ...I'm afraid not only the cowboy's gone away over the rainbow. I hope to be invited to join the club, a privilege.

 

[jkingrph]

If you think the speaker is trying to put you down, and you want to be a little passive-agressive about it, you can use the opportunity to "educate" him (i.e., show him he's a dumbass). For instance, "Cowboy hat? No. Those have 4-inch brims. This is a fedora with a 2-7/8-inch brim, far from a cowboy hat. And it has a ribbon. Cowboy hats are trimmed with a leather band or braid or something else besides a ribbon. But I can understand your confusion, since most hats these days [implying the one he probably owns] have tiny so-called stingy brims, like women's hats did in the past. They're made of cheap wool felt, unlike this hat which is made of rabbit fur felt, and have sweat bands made of the stuff they make whitey-tighty underwear waists out of, unlike the leather sweatband of a real hat like this."

Whether or not this impresses him or he cares, it shows him that he doesn't know a whole lot about hats.

I'll take exception with some of your comments. I have quite a few "cowboy"hats. Some have ribbons, very thin probably 1/4 to 3/8". Two very high quality Stetsons have a "ribbon" made from the same felt as the hat. One straw I have has a very tasteful leather ribbon. One has a 1 1/2 ribbon and still looks very cowboy.

A brim does not have to be 4", I have a couple as narrow as 3" and they are definetly, western or cowboy.

It's not any one thing, but a combination and styling that puts a hat into the cowboy category.

I took one of my father's westerns and converted it to a thin ribbon fedora and other than being a thicker stiffer felt you would never think of it as western