still wearing fur felt in late June

[150719541]

San Luis Potosí, México.

From 15 march till 15-30 october here in the day is imposible use fur felt, maybe 3 or 4 nights in that time can wearing fur felt. The temperature average in this time in day is 30 °C., as well most people are wearing western and fedora straw hats.

 

[Blackthorn]

The mornings are still so warm here that I am still wearing my fur felt hats until noon, then the Panama comes out.

 

[VitaminG]

Here's an even better shot of the hat:

that's a great shot. And a sexy fiddle too

 

[jbucklin]

Thanks VitaminG. I love that guitar and agree that it's a sexy beast! Guilds are pretty underrated, so I'm glad you appreciate its coolness.

 

[Undertow]

I often wear my mid-weight felt out in the sauna-hot Iowa summer weather. I used to have some Panamas, but they've shrunk and I've grown. And I'll be damned if I leave the house without a hat...[bad]

 

[BanjoMerlin]

Middle of August. Temps between 80F and 100F. I'm still wearing fur felt hats.

I tried a Panama last week. It wasn't any cooler and doesn't work as well as a fan. The cheap open-weave straw hat is cooler but doesn't block the sun as well.

Given the choice between perspiration and melanoma I'll take the sweat.

 

[ScionPI2005]

I'm wearing straws and linen caps. As much as I love and prefer fur felt, I just can't wear them in the summertime. In about a month, I'll be able to start switching to fur felt on occasion; and hopefully in October can switch to fur felt completely. I always look forward to fur felt season a lot more than I do straw season.

 

[Dewhurst]

I often wear my mid-weight felt out in the sauna-hot Iowa summer weather. I used to have some Panamas, but they've shrunk and I've grown. And I'll be damned if I leave the house without a hat...[bad]

Iowa's summer weather IS like a sauna.

Your problem with straw sounds like mine. I have destroyed both nice and not so nice straw hats during summer due to my copious amounts of sweat. They shrink (my most recent by two sizes approximately) and stain and die very quickly compared to felt and most fabric hats that I own. Just a fact of life. I have a linen Bailey of Hollywood five point flat cap that is on its third or fourth summer now, and it is trashed and stained like crazy, but other people still can't tell. I think this is it's last year though.

Most of my straw hats make it through no more than 2 or 3 summers MAX.

 

[Yeps]

Last night I wore my Squatter (featherweight) to the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. It was a bit warm, but that brim sure did keep the sun out of my eyes when it was still up, and make me noticable (as if a 6'5" guy needed a big, green hat to stand out).

 

[Undertow]

Iowa's summer weather IS like a sauna.

Your problem with straw sounds like mine. I have destroyed both nice and not so nice straw hats during summer due to my copious amounts of sweat. They shrink (my most recent by two sizes approximately) and stain and die very quickly compared to felt and most fabric hats that I own. Just a fact of life. I have a linen Bailey of Hollywood five point flat cap that is on its third or fourth summer now, and it is trashed and stained like crazy, but other people still can't tell. I think this is it's last year though.

Most of my straw hats make it through no more than 2 or 3 summers MAX.

Yeah, my nicest straw lasted ONE summer - and shrank from a 7 1/2 down to a 7 1/4. Now my dad wears it. :eusa_doh:

I have another straw but it's shrank one size and never looked good enough to bother stretching.

 

[Neophyte]

It's been high 80s through high 90s here in Tennessee, and I've had no problem wearing my fur felt hats. I've never had a straw hat, though, so I really don't know how much more comfortable a straw may be in our weather here.

Luckily I go to UTK. Knoxville is has truly chaotic weather, and it can go from bright sunshine to raining sideways within hours. My hats have worked just fine so far.

 

[gtdean48]

I wear felts year round here just north of Atlanta. I usually pull the liner out to lessen the insulating effect...

 

[AlterEgo]

I do not see how you people wear fur felts in this hot weather. The heat index here in the Mid-South is expected to top 105 today. I love my fur felts, and wish I could, but no can do. Of course, I can always wear them around inside, where it's air conditioned!

I've a broken right thumb and am largely out of commission--it's even hard to type--and the motor that powers my weed-wacker, edger, blower, hedge trimmer, and brush cutter is in the shop, so, for the first time in my entire life, I hired a guy to do my yard yesterday. Since HE was doing the work and I only supervising, I did not change into grubby clothes and just kept on my linen shorts and shirt, sandals, and relatively new Akubra Hemp Range.

By the time he was through, or should I say, I was through with him, it was 3:30 PM, I'd been out there 2 1/2 hours, and the actual temp. on my back-door thermometer was 100 F. I was wringing wet with sweat with my shorts and socks soaked clear through and looking forward to a cold beer or three.

The yard looked like crap, but I was polite nothwithstanding and got the guy a glass of ice water.

Then, after I asked the guy if he needed the extention cord for anything else (he had an electric weed-wacker), he stood there and watched me take 10 minutes to carefully wind all 200 feet of my heavy, 14-guage cord on its spindle (don't think he brought his own extention cord, do you?) before I took it to the basement.

Then, I come back upstairs, and the guy pulls out a leaf-blower and wants to plug it into--you guessed it--my extention cord! That's when I gave the guy his money and sent him off with instructions to never return.

So there I was, with grass clippings down 100 feet of driveway and the sidewalk, as well as clumps of grass all over the yard. I would have to sweep and rake by myself. With only one good arm, that took an another hour and a half.

THE POINT IS, for the first time, I wore the Akubra Hemp Range in highly adverse conditions, for four hours, no less. I would have never worn this two-month-old hat had I expected to be in the 100-degree, 70% humidity weather working like a slave. Made of stiff, dense hemp, a 3 3/8-inch brim, and a reeded roan leather sweat, it's ventilated all around the perimeter of the crown above the black pug.

It did a great job of shading my head and letting what little breeze there was through. Even so, sweat was streaming in rivulets down my face and neck, and I was worried I might have buggered up my newest hat for good. Surprisingly, none of the sweat penetrated the band, and the straw and pug look good as new.

I was pleasantly surprised, and am now even more happy I bought this $95 hat. I can only imagine what a fur felt would have been like out there yesterday. I would have probably gotten so hot that I'd have used the extention cord to string that guy up from a tree!

 

[Undertow]

I do not see how you people wear fur felts in this hot weather. The heat index here in the Mid-South is expected to top 105 today. I love my fur felts, and wish I could, but no can do. Of course, I can always wear them around inside, where it's air conditioned! ...

lol

That must have been a headache!

I'm usually inside most of the day (I'm on office dwelling zombie), so air conditioning is the order of the day. I throw on the ol'felt and walk 5 blocks to my car in 95F 110index weather (humidity around here is nearly unbearable).

If I had to do much of anything else, I'd switch to my straw western.

 

[Mr Vim]

I think I have said this before but there is no problem wearing a fur felt up in Alaska... the average temperature in the summer is 60 degrees or so... which is quite nice.

The only issue is the rain. I have to be careful not to get the hats wet.

 

[Tiller]

Here's an even better shot of the hat:

I'm a pretty traditional guy when it comes to the vintage look, but that is a great style. Well done sir.

 

[Mav]

Fur felt is still workable in No. CA this summer. It helps that my sales territory is completely coastal. The downside is that I sell air conditioning equipment.

 

[BanjoMerlin]

The only issue is the rain. I have to be careful not to get the hats wet.

What kind of fur felt hats do you have? Or what kind of rain do you have?

Fur felt hats are great for protecting your head from rain.

 

[Dewhurst]

Fur felt hats are great for protecting your head from rain.

But not as good as an old fashioned, easy-to-come-by, and immensely inexpensive umbrella! Or a hat really designed for rain (like actually and really with malice aforethought).

Most fur felt hats will get you by in the rain, but they then usually require some special baby-sitting afterwords. Best to not wear your Sunday best dress hat in the rain, all things considered. Go with a designated beater.

 

[BanjoMerlin]

But not as good as an old fashioned, easy-to-come-by, and immensely inexpensive umbrella! Or a hat really designed for rain (like actually and really with malice aforethought).

Most fur felt hats will get you by in the rain, but they then usually require some special baby-sitting afterwords. Best to not wear your Sunday best dress hat in the rain, all things considered. Go with a designated beater.

I'm gonna run right out and tell those beavers to get out of that pond before they ruin their fur! The only special care I've ever given a rained-on fur felt hat is to let it dry at room temperature. The ones with a high beaver content don't even really get wet, the rain beads up and runs off.

BTW, I can wear a hat without giving up one hand to hold an umbrella. Much more convenient, especially if it isn't raining right now.