New Hat Models

[Uncle Vern]

I'm no expert, but I've seen enough hats both live and on eBay to realize that hat companies like Stetson seem to have always restricted their model names to "good-guy" types, like John Wayne, or Tom Mix, or "Gus," from "Lonesome Dove." The only bad boy I've found with a hat named after him was James Dean, who actually wasn't much of a bad-ass, and who probably only wore a Stetson when he was filming "Giant." There should be some hat models named and issued after those great underbelly-types who have inhabited the American landscape and whose ghosts still linger in a parallel universe just beyond our grasp. Jack Abramoff has cast a reasonably sinister shadow over Borsalinos, but we can do better than that. I suspect that lounge members are just the right men (and women) for the job. I'll make the first suggestion: "The Resistol Jack Ruby model."

 

[Katt in Hat]

Your really great idea deserves another.

Why don't you find a picture of Ruby to use as your Avatar? I put my "Jack" up after trying to find a pic that would post. Took me a few days but you should be able to do so in minutes. :deadhorse

Looka' all dem HATS!

 

[LEUII]

That is a powerful photograph.

 

[PeeWee]

Yes, It is powerful..I watched that scene on live television those many years ago.

 

[spiridon]

Yes, It is powerful..I watched that scene on live television those many years ago.

Same here. One of those "defining moments" you never forget, similar to watching the "Challenger" disaster. ....

Do the gentlemen in the picture all seem to wear their hats awfully high on their head or is it my imagination?

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I'm no expert, but I've seen enough hats both live and on eBay to realize that hat companies like Stetson seem to have always restricted their model names to "good-guy" types, like John Wayne, or Tom Mix, or "Gus," from "Lonesome Dove." The only bad boy I've found with a hat named after him was James Dean...

Well, my friend you missed "the Michaelson" named after our own "Michaelson."

 

[scotrace]

Passage of time

Used to look at that photograph and think "how awful that weekend was." Now I think the same as you. "Those hats seem to be sitting awfully high."

Do the gentlemen in the picture all seem to wear their hats awfully high on their head or is it my imagination?

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Isn't that lawman wearing an Open Road?

karol

 

[Michaelson]

Actually, it's a Peters Bros. Shady Oaks. They were contracted to make this hat for the Dallas Police department when Tom Peters Sr. owned the shop back in the late 50's through the mid 60's.

Regards! Michaelson

 

[jake_fink]

Why did you people do this to me. I'm looking at this photo, and at the man in white escorting Oswald, and I'm laughing. It looks like he was in a rush that moring and stuck his kid's cowboy hat on his big bean.

:fing28:
This is not the reaction I should be having.

 

[spiridon]

Why did you people do this to me. I'm looking at this photo, and at the man in white escorting Oswald, and I'm laughing. It looks like he was in a rush that moring and stuck his kid's cowboy hat on his big bean.

:fing28:
This is not the reaction I should be having.

Sorry Jake.......and I hope no one thinks I was trying trivialize the actions that picture depicts.
It was the only way I could think of staying on topic.

 

[jake_fink]

It's all right spiridon; I have to fight to be less glib.

Now back to hats!

What about the "Preacher Harry Powell" hat... or the "Hunter"

Can't say I'd buy it, but I'd go for the tats.

 

[Fedora]

Looka' all dem HATS!

I bet a couple of those guys with the high sitting hats would consider their hat size to be one size smaller than what we would consider to be the proper hat size. To me personally, a hat that sits that high just looks comical.

I have seen the film of Ruby shooting Oswald, and folks, the way his little stingy brimmed hat looked in that film, turned me off to fedoras until just a few years ago. I literally had nightmares of the way that hat looked on him as he pulled the trigger and filled Oswald's belly with hot lead. I then found out the older fedoras had taller crowns and a real brim. An epiphany and my salvation. Fedora

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Maybe it was some mid-60's thing. There is one fedora left among my late father's possessions, a black fur felt with a stingy brim. I tried it on and it was too small for my head. I looked and it was a 6 7/8. Shocked, I said to mother, he couldn't possibly have had a head that small. I had expected him to have at least a head my size (7 1/8). Mother then told me that he wore that hat on the top of his head.

Photos I have from him in the 40's do not show that. Wish we still had those hats.

How did they keep a slight breeze from blowing them off their heads?

karol

 

[Uncle Vern]

Another Side of Oswald and Ruby

 

[J.B.]

...blasted by a lef-handed tellyguster

 

[Pilgrim]

I like that version! I also hang out on the Fender Forum, a group dedicated to musical instruments. That photo would fit right in over there.