Cattlemans crease

[Dinerman]

I didn't want to hijack another thread, so-
who here wears their hats with a cattleman's crease?

I have it in my resistol san antonio, and my stingy brim cavanagh

 

[Duck]

I just do not like the way they look on me. I have worn my cowboy hats with the Montana (Gus) crease for years and years and years. That could be why I think the cattleman's crease just doesn't look right on me, but look great on others.

 

[majormoore]

I wear a cattlemans crease hat, 4 5/8 open crown when hat was blocked and a 4" brim, and some with a 4 1/4" brim.

Mike

 

[Joel Tunnah]

I wear my fedoras this way occasionally, although I've grown to love the stockman bash better - with mule kicks, please.

Joel

 

[Andykev]

Cattleman's crease

I prefer the "Harry Truman" look, which is the pinch front. I believe LBJ wore the true crease you speak of. I think it requires a taller person, IMHO.

 

[Bart]

This is the best for me. It's the brim that I keep changing, trying to figure which I like better. Any rules of thumb or just personal preference?

 

[epic610]

i wear..

my open road with the brim snapped down like a fedora, but with the cattleman's bash. interesting look .....combination of urban/western.

 

[Michaelson]

That's how I wear my Peter's Bro Shady Oaks. It's essentially an Open Road with a taller crown and slightly wider brim.

http://www.petersbros.com/SHADY_OAKS/Default.htm

Regards! Michaelson

 

[Matt Deckard]

I tend to mix it up once in a while with an old brown Dobbs fedora of mine. It's very 20's on a fedora.

 

[feltfan]

Dinerman, I suspect it's easier to do when you live in the West.

I sure wear my OR-style hats with the cattleman crown.
I usually, but not always, snap the brim down, fedora-style though.

I did have one cattleman I didn't like- a narrow, less generous
block used on a 60s Cavanagh 100. I had Art reblock it open
and I put in my own fedora-style crown. But if it looks classic
to me, I leave it.

 

[Bart]

Cattleman Crease or Outback?

Anyone wear an Outback or bash an existing hat in an Outback style? It's an interesting change of pace. Maybe some of our Downunder friends could join the conversation.

 

[dr greg]

context

I have a Cattleman which I wear when dropping into the rural supply store for bales of hay etc, or attending the cattle sales, or just out and about in my truck. I would never own or wear anything in the style of the Pastoralist though, that is worn by greedy stock agents, weekend farmers, arrogant graziers and their equestrian wives, and just plain posers like politicians on lightning visits to the 'bush'. no dinkum bloke would be seen in one.
The fedoras I wear everywhere else. I do not own a classic cowboy hat, as it just ain't my culture (did have a Jim Bailey once tho), but they are de rigeur for those who play and follow our anaemic version of country music over here which owes a lot more to Nashville schlock than Dale Watson frinstance.

 

[DOUGLAS]

This is one of a few I have that looks good with a cattlemans crease.

A bit softer

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

I'm agreeing with Feltfan, epic610 and Bart. All of my ORs (2 felts + 1 straw) and my felt Resistol San Antonio have an Alpine/Cattleman bash - with the front brim snapped down. I have a wool felt Resistol that I re-bashed from a pinch to an Alpine crown, cut down the brim from 3 1/2" to 2 3/4" and steamed on my brim ring, hoping to snap the brim down. I guess wool isn't as easy to work with as fur felt. Just didn't have the same look even though it was the same dimensions as the ORs. I reshaped the brim back cowboy style and use it as a beater around the farm in Virginia.

 

[Bart]

Cattleman Crease

This is one of a few I have that looks good with a cattlemans crease.

A bit softer

No, it couldn't be, could it? A greedy stock agent?

 

[Bud-n-Texas]

Before and after shots of my Resistol San Antonio

I wear a cattlemans crease on all my westerns, but I just don't care much for it on a fedora.

 

[Dinerman]

my resistol san antonio

 

[Bud-n-Texas]

Here is another San Antonio, just a different color.

 

[GentlemanFarmer]

And here's my San Antonio

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/GentlemanFarmer/SanAnton2.jpg

 

[DOUGLAS]

Not greedy GentlemanFarmer, just hungry
Beautiful hat you have there.