What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[The Lost Cowboy]

Check

Check (I have the liner)

Check. Side buckles also look identical.

The only detail mine is missing.
I’d say it’s an AT101 made only for Japan. I should write that down somewhere.

I hope you will share any information you might learn about this jacket with me (for example, what kind of leather it is or what years this model was produced). Information in English online is scant and I wonder if there is more in Japanese. I am guessing this is naked cowhide but I would love to be sure.

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Hi Joe,

Yes, this is the typical wind cord construction with a button at the end of an elastic cord attached to the crown. I have a number of hats (mostly Stetson c.1939-40) that used a fixed button sewn to the hat and a cord with a looped end that would seemingly be looped around a lapel button rather than through a button hole. In the latter design, the loop hooks around the sewn on button to keep it stowed nicely and gives the same overall look when wound around the crown.

I've always wondered if there was much if any actual use of a wind cord as a functional hat seat belt or if it was a design affectation much like the faux lacing and ribbon flourish on sweatbands. I don't think I've ever seen one in use in photography or film, or a how-to included in an ad or promo piece. Maybe some of our ephemera collectors can weigh in with more on this?

I use my wind cords often when I am on the road in the semi. If I need my hat for protection from the rain or sun but there is a high wind, I simply put on the wind cord. It's not only protection from it flying down the interstate or across a busy truck stop parking lot, it also provides enough tension that the hat doesn't generally blow away to begin with. In fact, I don't carry any hats with me in the truck that don't have wind cords - that's how useful they are.

As for vintage photos of wind cords in use, I would imagine that conditions that lent themselves to wind cord usage did not lend themselves to photographs. Also, they look kind of dumb and folks might have been sensitive to that in posed photos. I do feel like I have seen at least one old photo of a wind cord in use but I could be making that up.

I believe wind cord usage must have been normal at some point - enough so that we still have wind cord holes in the lapels of our suits and overcoats, no?

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

WWW - woolie whippet Wednesday. Adam brand from what I suspect to be the 1970s.

I believe this is my only wool hat. I would wear it more often if the sweatband weren't cardboard.

Cool design though, wouldn't mind having something made just like it out of beaver or hare.

 

[TimmyV]

I've been looking for a Stetson Nutria for quite some time and finally found one in my size ! Normally I shy away from a cattlemen crease but this old hat just seemed to want it that way so I let it be.

 

[The Lost kansan]

I've been looking for a Stetson Nutria for quite some time and finally found one in my size ! Normally I shy away from a cattlemen crease but this old hat just seemed to want it that way so I let it be.
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Now this is a magnificent hat

 

[Fredoka]

Mr Fatman oversized newsboy hat
They're made in Japan by hand in Harajuku
It's divisive... but I love it

 

[VoodooSan]

WWW - woolie whippet Wednesday. Adam brand from what I suspect to be the 1970s.

I believe this is my only wool hat. I would wear it more often if the sweatband weren't cardboard.

Cool design though, wouldn't mind having something made just like it out of beaver or hare.

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Good looking hat, Nathan. I agree with you: I see a LOT of wool hats advertised that I'd like to have duplicated in fur, but, of course, the costs would be CONSIDERABLY different! Oh, and details on the jacket, please!

 

[Blare]

I've been looking for a Stetson Nutria for quite some time and finally found one in my size ! Normally I shy away from a cattlemen crease but this old hat just seemed to want it that way so I let it be.
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Nice find, Tim!

 

[VoodooSan]

I've been looking for a Stetson Nutria for quite some time and finally found one in my size ! Normally I shy away from a cattlemen crease but this old hat just seemed to want it that way so I let it be.
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Woo-hoo!! Super nice nutria, Timmy!

Look's like the retailer first opened a "clothing stand" in Colorado Springs in 1892. In 1905, he opened a brick and mortar store, which continued in operation, at several addresses, until 1965. The Tejano address was the business's final location.

 

[alanfgag]

I use my wind cords often when I am on the road in the semi. If I need my hat for protection from the rain or sun but there is a high wind, I simply put on the wind cord. It's not only protection from it flying down the interstate or across a busy truck stop parking lot, it also provides enough tension that the hat doesn't generally blow away to begin with. In fact, I don't carry any hats with me in the truck that don't have wind cords - that's how useful they are.

As for vintage photos of wind cords in use, I would imagine that conditions that lent themselves to wind cord usage did not lend themselves to photographs. Also, they look kind of dumb and folks might have been sensitive to that in posed photos. I do feel like I have seen at least one old photo of a wind cord in use but I could be making that up.

I believe wind cord usage must have been normal at some point - enough so that we still have wind cord holes in the lapels of our suits and overcoats, no?

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for sharing your experience with wind cords. I have certainly experienced chasing a hat that was rolling on its brim down the street faster than I could run. Not fun or a pretty sight.

I believe the lapel buttonhole, when not designed for an opposing button, was favored mainly for floral arrangements or pins. But it is convenient for a hat tether too.

I've stopped wearing a fedora when the forecast calls for brisk winds. A derby, sometimes, as it is uniquely aerodynamic and cuts through a stiff breeze, almost never coming off. But most often I will wear a beret, which stays on, resists the rain, stows in a pocket in a restaurant and seems to draw more thumbs up from passers-by than any other type of headwear, for me.

best,
Alan

 

[DonR]

I've been looking for a Stetson Nutria for quite some time and finally found one in my size ! Normally I shy away from a cattlemen crease but this old hat just seemed to want it that way so I let it be.
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Great score Timmy!

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for sharing your experience with wind cords. I have certainly experienced chasing a hat that was rolling on its brim down the street faster than I could run. Not fun or a pretty sight.

I believe the lapel buttonhole, when not designed for an opposing button, was favored mainly for floral arrangements or pins. But it is convenient for a hat tether too.

I've stopped wearing a fedora when the forecast calls for brisk winds. A derby, sometimes, as it is uniquely aerodynamic and cuts through a stiff breeze, almost never coming off. But most often I will wear a beret, which stays on, resists the rain, stows in a pocket in a restaurant and seems to draw more thumbs up from passers-by than any other type of headwear, for me.

best,
Alan

I can't substantiate a claim either way that the lapel hole was made for flowers or for wind cords. Obviously we have more examples in photo of flowers being stuck in those holes, but I have no idea if that was the original intention or even if it was used more for that purpose than for wind trolleys. They certainly do accommodate a wind cord perfectly!

You are a real fan of the beret, and you look great wearing one!

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

Good looking hat, Nathan. I agree with you: I see a LOT of wool hats advertised that I'd like to have duplicated in fur, but, of course, the costs would be CONSIDERABLY different! Oh, and details on the jacket, please!

Thanks Mark! Once I get back to work, I might ask Michael Gannon to make me one (or maybe Northwest Hats - both are really great for an affordable price).

I just received this trucker jacket from a fellow lounger and am waiting to break it in before sharing. It fits me well enough but there are two fit issues I'm hoping will sort out as it breaks in. This is from a Chinese maker and I have no idea what to expect - I'm waiting for a good rain to test it!

 

[TimmyV]

Woo-hoo!! Super nice nutria, Timmy!

Look's like the retailer first opened a "clothing stand" in Colorado Springs in 1892. In 1905, he opened a brick and mortar store, which continued in operation, at several addresses, until 1965. The Tejano address was the business's final location.

Thanks Mark. Cool history lesson too !

Great score Timmy!

Thank ya sir. Your recent addition of a Stetson Nutria was the catalyst for really making me want one of these !

 

[TimmyV]

Nice find, Tim!

Thanks Joe !

 

[Randall Renshaw]

How dark shade of redneck must one be to wear this hat in public? Much redder than mine, I guarantee.
Don’t miss the giddar pick hangin in the back that’s stamped, “Elvis is King”.

This Peter Grimm came with an eBay lot.
I wanted 3 hats out of the 6, which didn’t include this one.

 

[Randall Renshaw]

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Nice photo, LK.
That Vita-felt does have the same look, for sure, though of a different decade or two.

 

[The Lost Cowboy]

How dark shade of redneck must one be to wear this hat in public? Much redder than mine, I guarantee.
Don’t miss the giddar pick hangin in the back that’s stamped, “Elvis is King”.

This Peter Grimm came with an eBay lot.
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What happened to the thread, "Hats I wouldn't wear out of the yard"?

Gotta admit the pick looks kind of cool hanging there like that!

 

[Ent]

Grey on blue day with Akubra carbon grey stylemaster.

 

[alanfgag]

A Borsalino from a Bulgarian collection that made the rounds on eBay fifteen or so years ago. Advertised as a pre-war stash, it might very well be. The hat was in fine condition save the toasted ribbon which needed replacement. I had intended this hat for my Dad who is a size smaller than me. It languished at our local custom hatter for several months waiting for this work until impatience got the better of me and I brought it back home, where it has remained. The closely cropped velour felt is very fine and very similar in hand to the Anton Peschel for Oviatt's that I have shared before. I feel it wants to be worn pinchless.