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@Bamaboots I do like that one!! Nice crease. Should be a good game!
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I had already ordered one just like this when you posted these photos. It showed up today.
I had already ordered one just like this when you posted these photos. It showed up today.
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Modern Sage Royal Deluxe OR. It's a little bit different than the ones I saw in Garland a year or two ago. Those were pretty much like the Stratoliner Special Edition in sage. Almost a velour dark green with a rust colored binding and ribbon. This is more brownish in some light and mossy green in other light. The binding and ribbon is more of a brown/green. I like it, I had hesitated to get it because I expected it to look so much like my strat so I am happy it is unique. I have a regular strat in sage that has a color matched ribbon that is more of a bluegreen. So all three sage stetsons are different.
ET, your OR reminds me of my ~1965 3X OR I found virtually NOS in a 1965 Stetson Centennial box. The color goes from a charcoal gray to a dusty gray with blue undertones. Unfortunately Stetson did not mark the hats like they did on the 150th anniversary, & they could have used the boxes for several yrs. There are older pics I've posted before.
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Looks mighty good to me.Got a new Akubra Campdraft from down under the other day. I finally had time today to start working on a crease. I think of it as a western hat. I wet it and put the crease I think I want it to have in it. My first time shaping an open crown. You experienced hat shapers tell me if I looks ok or if I have it messed up.
Thanks Dale! It's good to know that they did distinguish the 100th Anniversary from others (& my OR is not one of them). Also I'm curious of the grade of your stingy since you didn't make note of it? Also were there any other differences other than the liner?That's a fine one, Jack! Great color.
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Here's a pic of the liner of a 100th anniversary Stetson. It's not a western model (by a long shot) so I didn't include a pic of the hat but I did just post it in the stingy brim thread if you want to get a load of just how small the brims were on men's dress hats in 1965.
Jeff, is Costner's Midnight Star closed now? I heard it is.View attachment 293434 View attachment 293435 View attachment 293436 View attachment 293437 View attachment 293438 View attachment 293439 Paying my respects to James Butler Hickok and Martha Jane Burke.
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Thank you. Texas Hatters has an incomparable vintage brim curling machine, and the leather band was something I had made by an Etsy guy, Larry something. I never get tired of the black hills.That hat is badness. Location is too.
Jeff, is Costner's Midnight Star closed now? I heard it is.
He may have been invested in it but I never heard that. I'm all for it if it brings back the history, & gets the big corporations out.I always loved the Deadwood Social Club, and at one time thought maybe Costner was invested in that one too, but not sure.
He may have been invested in it but I never heard that. I'm all for it if it brings back the history, & gets the big corporations out.
His brother managed the Midnight Star for him. Plus he bought hundreds of acres just outside of town for that Dances With Wolves Park. I would hate it if he just gave up there.
Not sure about it's ownership today, & it didn't used to have the visitors center & all that. It used to be out on the prairie & the only thing you could hear was the wind. A surreal experience. Tatanka Story of the Bison.I would too. That would be a travesty. I wonder if the park you're talking about is "1880s Town." They have a lot of historical items that were used as props in the film, as well as a whole town of authentic 1880s buildings that were relocated to that particular area just off the interstate.
*edit-- google yields that the Midnight Star, sadly, is closed. The Deadwood Social Club is unaffiliated with Costner, I think. Best restaurant in town, regardless. It used to be that you could only find it if you found a hidden entrance, and it was deliberately not advertised much. Now there is access from multiple places and it's clearly marked and easy to find.
Got a new Akubra Campdraft from down under the other day. I finally had time today to start working on a crease. I think of it as a western hat. I wet it and put the crease I think I want it to have in it. My first time shaping an open crown. You experienced hat shapers tell me if I looks ok or if I have it messed up.
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Jack, the centennial Stetson I've got is from the Sovereign line. It's a top shelf hat....the fancy bow with the ribbon that's woven in and out of the sweat band in the back half of the hat, an oilskin liner behind the sweat, and a felted edge brim. I believe Stetson referred to theirs as a Mode edge, if I'm remembering correctly.Thanks Dale! It's good to know that they did distinguish the 100th Anniversary from others (& my OR is not one of them). Also I'm curious of the grade of your stingy since you didn't make note of it? Also were there any other differences other than the liner?
The liner with it's red, white & blue bars reminds me of AMF when they owned Brunswick Corp, & Harley Davidson Motorcycles. The worst Harley's ever made were under the AMF flagship.