What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Gareth]

I'm no expert by any means, but I recently acquired this Stetson 100% Beaver hat on ebay for 50.00 & I'll share my opinions. Normally I tend to buy older hats that did not come with a "bar code" behind the sweatband but that "100% BEAVER" stamp got the best of me and for a price like that I figured why not.lol.
The felt does feel very nice and molds easily by hand without steam. I have quite a few stingy brims that I wear with the brim snapped up but for the most part I like 'em snapped down. To me this hat just looks odd snapped down, I reckon it has something to do with the flange used during it's construction. All in all it's a pretty nice hat I think.
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Yes indeed, once I saw that 100% Beaver the show was over, I had to have it!

 

[Gary in NC]

VERY nice, Gary!!!

Thank you!

 

[RickP]

I'm no expert by any means, but I recently acquired this Stetson 100% Beaver hat on ebay for 50.00 & I'll share my opinions. Normally I tend to buy older hats that did not come with a "bar code" behind the sweatband but that "100% BEAVER" stamp got the best of me and for a price like that I figured why not.lol.
The felt does feel very nice and molds easily by hand without steam. I have quite a few stingy brims that I wear with the brim snapped up but for the most part I like 'em snapped down. To me this hat just looks odd snapped down, I reckon it has something to do with the flange used during it's construction. All in all it's a pretty nice hat I think.
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I actually like the shorter height and somewhat tapered fit on some of the newer Stetsons as much as the older/ taller/ straighter models... Im sure a "pure Beaver" in a new hat is still a nice decent felt...I can just never find $50 pure beavers in 7-1/4 lol

 

[RickP]

Very nice, Rick! As always, you did great work rehabbing it.

After Timmys new beaver hat, I thought Id throw this mornings older Whippet out here with a Modern Whippett I have. Close in color but definately different felt and shapes, but I like both...each in its own way.

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[Blare]

Stetson Royal DeLuxe Open Road in a Moss Green color . Has the onion skin liner tip versus the plastic one which says "older hat" to me.
TGIF people...hope y'all have a good 'un !
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How green it’s gotten all around in Rock Bottom.

 

[Blare]

Looks like one more potentially wet day... Time for one of the old semi beater hats just in case I cant bob and weave in between raindrops. This one an old Royal Stetson Whippitt-ish looking thing ( No tags inside except size tag when it came to live with me, so not sure exactly what it was) Added a new liner, cleaned up decently and has a nice older shape. One of my favorite errand-running hats.

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Very Whippet-y and appears to be from prime Whippet era. Many whippets from the 50s only had Whippet marked on the liner and not on the sweat. I wonder Is it possible the original liner indicated Whippet… or did you get to see the original liner?

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Mallory XV.

My first photos with my new iPhone. The front-facing camera is so good, I can't work out how to make the file size small enough for TFL.

Selfie mode turns out great, though...

 

[The Lost kansan]

Stetson Royal DeLuxe Open Road in a Moss Green color . Has the onion skin liner tip versus the plastic one which says "older hat" to me.
TGIF people...hope y'all have a good 'un !
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Is that a Legendary Whitetails flannel?