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I can understand the desire to own a hat that looks as though it's seen a lot of action and had a lot of fun because I love the look of a well-used beater hat, but I'll wait until my hats develop that look on their own. Intentionally damaging a hat to achieve that look, especially an expensive hat, is foolish to me. It reminds me of posts I've read on Club Obi Wan in which people were initially proud of the way they had weathered their leather Raiders of the Lost Ark jackets by repeated soakings in water and the use of sandpaper and/or a wire brush, then later complained when their jackets started falling apart. What did they think was going to happen after they'd damaged their jackets in such a way? :eusa_doh: shakesheadI've never understood why somebody would want to intentionally distress a new hat. I can understand doing it for a role in a movie or a photo shoot but just to have an old looking hat doesn't make sense to me. In my opinion, an old hat with some character to it is very cool but not one that was intentionally distressed.