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As has been mentioned earlier, Stevie Ray Vaugh was one musician that cannot be remembered without his Strat and iconic flat telescoped crowned flat brimmed hat. I knew him having met him in Dallas in the eary 70s and after he got to Austin and Texas Hatters you almost never saw him without this hat or a variation of it on his head. As he told me , "...Manny will always make my hats" ( Manny Gammage original owner of Texas Hatters in Austin) . They still make the SAME hat as Stevie wore. One which many folks think is a western hat was a light tan version of the dark one which had the brim slightly curled at the sides from handling. Here's a pic of it with a white plume in it from the early 80s when he started putting them in the hatband.
here are two are earlier versions of the hat Manny made for him:
here are two are earlier versions of the hat Manny made for him: