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Did anyone find it hard for their cattlemans creased hat to hold the new crease and pinch. I would think that the hat would really want to stay as is or show signs of the original crease.
Did anyone find it hard for their cattlemans creased hat to hold the new crease and pinch. I would think that the hat would really want to stay as is or show signs of the original crease.
I only wear hats with cattleman creases. It is a personal choice. I do not personally care for the look of other modern creases. I suppose I am just set in my ways and very picky. Hahaha
That's fine. There is nothing wrong with a cattleman's crease, and it could be dressed up, like the most common variations today of the Stetson Open Road hats, or dressed down more like a regular wider brimmed cowboy hat. A cattleman's crease could also look fine on fedoras and homburgs, not only western hats. I do have one cattleman's crease hat, a modern Stetson Open Road. I treat that one as a dress hat, mostly, but still wear it while taking walks.
I'm with everybody else on this, too. I like creases to show signs of the hand that made them. I recently got a Stetson 100 which was creased in what I would call a semi-cattleman's or semi-Alpine if you travel in certain circles. It combines part of a full cattleman's and part of a center dent/front pinch. The center dent widens toward the back of the hat, and the front pinch is centered about 1/3 of the way back from the front of the crown, leaving a wide pinch.
Here are some shots of three hats with variations on the theme. Clockwise from top left, early to mid-'50s Resistol OR-style, mid-'50s Stetson 100, late '40s-early '50s Resistol 10. I've reshaped the Resistol OR several times and it varies between wearings from a full and somewhat symmetrical cattleman's to the combination crease I'm talking about. It can be dry-creased easily. The 100 was hand-creased at some point and it's not symmetrical either. After several creases I wound up giving the Resistol 10 the modified cattleman's, too.
Here is a shot of the top of the Resistol 10 showing the modified cattleman's, and a head shot.