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Every hat pictured in all Miller/ Stockman catalogs since western hats were manufactured and sold have had a specific name given to it. Whether it's a Miller, Stetson, or whatever, they all had names associated to each specific one…I find it hard to believe that Stetson would produce such a hat and not designate a name for it. I don't agree with your analogy.
But did Stetson give the hats the names or did retailers like Miller/Stockman give them the names? Because the names in the Miller/Stockman catalogues are reused across multiple hat makers for hats with the same characteristics.
For example, here is one page of a catalogue where a Stetson, Dobbs and Miller are all called “Laloo” on the same page - and plenty of other examples abound. I find it hard to believe that every maker called their hat the same name.
I’m sure my question has been answered elsewhere on the Lounge and I intend to spend more time looking for it, but I suspect that you are determined to find names for hats that retailers named - the makers did not name them. If the makers had gone though all the trouble to name each model, why not put the model name on reorder tags instead of duplication and block numbers?
Here is a link to one discussion of this topic on another thread, showing that other Loungers are asking this same question. It also talks about the extreme variability even among models with the same names, often making it very hard to associate one set of characteristics to any name. I’m sure there must be plenty of other discussions, I just haven’t had a chance to look deeply enough yet.
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