Question about Stetson Playboy?

[gtdean48]

Does a Stetson Playboy have a bound edge like the Stratoliner or the Open Road or is it a raw edge brim? TIA

 

[Dinerman]

It has a stitched brim edge. Raw edge, but with a single row of stitching around the edge.

This one's an early model, so it's got a different brim width and crown blocking, but the edge is the same as later ones.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Most Playboys have a stitched edge detail about 2mm in on a raw brim,

although I have one (the only one I have ever seen) that has a Whippet-like bound brim.

 

[kiltie]

Dinerman -

Aren't there TWO Playboys? I thought there was an older, wider brim ( raw edge? ), or is your picture forced perspective? In any event, I think there's two incarnations....maybe I'm all wet.[huh]

 

[Dinerman]

Dinerman -

Aren't there TWO Playboys? I thought there was an older, wider brim ( raw edge? ), or is your picture forced perspective? In any event, I think there's two incarnations....maybe I'm all wet.[huh]

Mine's the '34-37 version, with a narrower brim and taller crown, in airlite (stetson's super lightweight) felt. The 1940 ads have a wide brim, but the stitching stayed the same. In the '60s, there was the Playboy II, but that's completely different.

 

[Lefty]

The one I had (then sold) had a raw edge with no stitching on the brim.

 

[carouselvic]

Lefty,you got gypped.

 

[Lefty]

Yeah, MK must have taken the stitches before he sold the hat to me, and I wasn't about to replace them for the Lounger I sold it to.

 

[carouselvic]

Yes, He bears watching. I'd think twice before buying a used hat from that character. His blue Dobbs did nicely.

 

[Jerekson]

The later Playboy models still remain one of my favorite hats ever made.

Some day...

 

[gtdean48]

Thanks to all for the helpful info....