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Joe, it's a fedora. Maybe it shows up better here:



Straw hats are nice in the Summer:



And, of course, seasonal hats are appropriate during the holidays:

Here's my favorite hat.

I know this is an older thread, but I was looking for a fedora / western type hat that Merle Haggard wore in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlAAWcc7VA

Does anyone know where to find a hat like this? I've looked at Bailey Hats and Village Hat Shop and can't find it. It seems like a high crown fedora of some type.

http://standardhatworks.com/

Or if you're on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Standard ... 5174944423

Waco, TX..

Cameron Morris is a FB friend who owns this shop, and I know he does custom or whatever. He has a lot of band clients.

i have a hard time wearing a hat regularly.
i think mainly they are used to cover baldness.
i can't get behind derbies or berets.
you've got to be a real special person to pull that off without looking funny!

chris ivey wrote:...I think mainly they are used to cover baldness...

If, like me, you're bald, you don't want to be out in the sun without a hat of some kind.
Of course, onstage no-one needs a hat. Those who wear them do so as a fashion statement. But that just goes along will all the rest of the western wear. I would rather see a group of guys smartly dressed on stage in western gear than wearing their old clothes, not giving a damn about their audiences.

Alan, Chris, and Bill, Thanks for the link to the hat site. I'm thinning up there too, lol. It might just look a tad more appropiate

Here you go Mark...these folks will hook you up!
http://www.360wichita.com/ClothingAppar ... Jacks.html
If they don't have it, they'll make it!

Lots of Scottish players wear these.

It's all about the huge New Mexico style hat for me! And Malcolm.... that's very wrong.

Jim, not to everyone's taste, but goes well with our national outfit the kilt.

My favorite hat is my Panama hat that I've worn for years.

fashionable and in style

glg...
you look quite like a mannequin in that pic.
is that your stunt double?

I've never been able to decide on a particular hat to suit me.

chris ivey wrote:glg...
you look quite like a mannequin in that pic.
is that your stunt double?

Chris, wifey said sorta the same thing, and I wanted so much to wear my "mannequin" hat during last week's gig. But woe as me, wifey wouldn't let me hear the end of it so I settled for plan B

I don't have a picture of my favorite hat, but my favorite hat is my Jackson Steel Guitar Company hat that I got with my Jackson Steel in 2010.

Glad to see hats making a fashion statement with steel playsers. A bit of history on hats. My mom, uncle and aunt worked at the Mervin Hat Co. In Fall River, MA during the 30's to the mid 60's. Look at any movies or pictures from that era and felt brim hats were common and even in the early seventies the sporty shorter brim hat with a small side feather or decoration were popular.

The demise of the industry is often noted that men got away from wearing every day hats because President Kennedy did not wear a hat at his inauguration. Sadly, I can't find any information on Mervin Hat Co. But there is still a hat manufacturing company in Fall River named Korber Hat. Elvis Costello wears a Korber hat.

Probably more info you ever wanted to know about hats....lol

The term "Mad Hatter" started way before Cinderella. There was a malady where in the 1800's people that worked in the hat factories went a bit bonkers as they held the pins in their mouths while working. The pins contain mercury.....😁

Is this a hat?



It says it is...



I haven't tried playing in it yet, but should be great ear training.

Well, you asked for it.

When you're bald it's good to keep your head warm.

...or I could look a bit like a 30s gangster.

Then there's the Postman Pat look...

On the other hand, when I'm out on the town during a full moon who needs a hat?