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I just picked up this Resistol Golden Ermine and was asking if any of you knew anything about it - Update: I found 2 articles today.
The people at Resistol Hats recently did some high-powered research and somehow concluded that there are more than 17 million cowboy hats in the U.S. If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol. Based in Garland, Resistol sells about a million cowboy hats a year, ranging in price from $15 for a straw workingman’s special to $3,000 for a beaver-and-ermine number. The cowboy hat may be the single most resonant throwback to the glory days of the open range, the one thing that most says “Texas” to the rest of the world. But Resistol’s story shows that you don’t have to be a legend as long as you know how to act like one, and that even legends can be stretched only so far.
A Glimpse Into the Wild Ride of Cutter Bill Western World Is a Texas Time Capsule.
For those men and women who had the money and desire to hit the town wearing a mink western-style coat ($8,000, or around $24,670 today), Cutter Bill Western World could hook them up, and provide a $2,500 ($7,709 today) Resistol "Golden Ermine Hat" to top the ensemble off. Customers could also snack on jalapeño peanuts or "Texas Crude," the black licorice-flavored jelly beans the company also sold.
2nd. article. Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat.The people at Resistol Hats recently did some high-powered research and somehow concluded that there are more than 17 million cowboy hats in the U.S. If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol. Based in Garland, Resistol sells about a million cowboy hats a year, ranging in price from $15 for a straw workingman’s special to $3,000 for a beaver-and-ermine number. The cowboy hat may be the single most resonant throwback to the glory days of the open range, the one thing that most says “Texas” to the rest of the world. But Resistol’s story shows that you don’t have to be a legend as long as you know how to act like one, and that even legends can be stretched only so far.
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