KC Capellor
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 143
- Location
- Kansas City
My purpose here is to learn to date Resistols better by liner and sweatband style and markings. I know that the earliest are the Melorol brown sweatbands but after that I see brown and black bands in fedoras and western hats. As noted, I see both dress hat and western hat liners in the San Antonio style hats over a number of years. I think there are several factors at play here. Not many true 1920's - 1940's hats circulate, mostly we see 1950's - 1970's hats in the vintage marketplace. Marketing tactics and production logistics probably affected some style features from year to year. Also, the Open Road style hat from Stetson, Resistol, and other top makers was so popular for so many decades it makes it difficult to tell similar ones apart. Texas and other parts of the Midwest and Southwest continued to buy western hats - including the OR hybrid-dress type strong into the 1970's while dress fedora sales had been plummeting for twenty years. (I still find it amazing that well dressed Mad Men of 1962 wouldn't be without their stingy-brim but ten years later fedora production had virtually ceased.)
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