Chasblount
New in Town
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- 41
- Location
- Amarillo, Texas
Looks great on you. Congratulations on finding one you love.CDL school is keeping us pretty busy - I don’t have very much time for sharing hats right now. I do want to share this Mallory Twenty that I won before I left for school, though - the eBay seller shipped it to me at the school house and I’ve been wearing it most of the week.
I’m sure I couldn’t have afforded this if it were any cleaner than it is, but I think I love it even more dirtied up like this. You can tell right away how much it’s been worked in and yet the felt is in superb shape and the inside is absolutely gorgeous (minus the sweat stains, which don’t bother me at all).
The only problem here was that the wind cord came with the button sewn to the ribbon (see photos). Does anybody know if they used to come that way from the manufacturers? I only ask because the thread color used to sew the button to the ribbon exactly matched the ribbon color, which I think would be hard for a purchaser to duplicate (not impossible, obvioulsy). I just wondered if they came this way and the original owner of this Dallas just never cut the button loose.
Anyway, when I cut the button loose and did a drop test the whole wind cord came off in my hand. I reinstalled it by threading the cord through a large-gauge needle and pushing it through the hat just under the ribbon, then I tied a knot at the end of the cord on the inside of the hat and voila, one functioning wind cord just in time for tornado season here in Missouri!
I like this hat quite a lot.
Cheers,
Nathan
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