http://www.jjhatcenter.com/products/the-stetsonian-by-stetson?variant=7576195908
Wow !!! Beautiful !!! Congrats Diego !Mendel put this one up for sale here on the FL and after thinking about it for awhile I finally grabbed it up. It took a little while coming from The Netherlands but the wait was worth it. Now it's back home in Oregon, about 30 miles from where it was born in John's shop, in Hillsboro, Oregon.
We are hunkered down here at home, waiting out the snow and freezing rain so the pics with MrsFed's camera phone really don't pick up enough detail. The bow doesn't even show up in the pic of the left side of the hat.
It's a dark moss color, which I have been wanting since I saw one of Art's hats when we visited his shop in Medford. This one is called "The Penman" and comes with matching dark moss ribbon and bow and a luscious 6-point diamond crease. I can't say enough about how much I like this hat. Mendel said he only wore it a few times and I believe it. I can't see where it's ever been worn. It's in pristine shape, it is.
Thx Fed. Right, tawny's all over the place and that Caribou shade of grey is a great color.
New Caribou Stetsonian arrived. Quite pleased so far. Thinner than my Heritage Akubra but similar soft feel to the touch. All stitching looks even and all items look well put together.
From the box: View attachment 64517
The above color is made a bit tan from the incandescent light from my lamp.
Initial dry shape with a flash and better lighting:
I was surprised by the quality of the hatband. Very nice. View inside:
The few while flecks are flashback from specks of dust.
Get them while you can.
Fed
Hurry up, no longer made. del Monico hatters still have in stock
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Late to the party on this one. This is a show stopper Doug! That matching ribbon really works with that color, and that bash! Congrats on such a fantastic find. It was worth the wait.Mendel put this one up for sale here on the FL and after thinking about it for awhile I finally grabbed it up. It took a little while coming from The Netherlands but the wait was worth it. Now it's back home in Oregon, about 30 miles from where it was born in John's shop, in Hillsboro, Oregon.
We are hunkered down here at home, waiting out the snow and freezing rain so the pics with MrsFed's camera phone really don't pick up enough detail. The bow doesn't even show up in the pic of the left side of the hat.
It's a dark moss color, which I have been wanting since I saw one of Art's hats when we visited his shop in Medford. This one is called "The Penman" and comes with matching dark moss ribbon and bow and a luscious 6-point diamond crease. I can't say enough about how much I like this hat. Mendel said he only wore it a few times and I believe it. I can't see where it's ever been worn. It's in pristine shape, it is.
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P1220924 by Michael A2012, on FlickrAgreed,nice find.
Good looking and,I suspect,fairly rare *** Club.The postman brought me this today.
From the 70s??
I think it will find some time in my rotation. Perhaps with a shooting jacket.
Stiff brim, soft crown.
Michael
Got a little of that Gus McRae vibe going there, sir.The postman brought me this today.
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From the 70s??12215 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
I think it will find some time in my rotation. Perhaps with a shooting jacket.P1220919 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Stiff brim, soft crown.
P1220924 by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Michael
I'm not sure on the rarity, though I didn't find many pictures on the web of one like it. It seemed like a shape I would be tolerably happy wearing. I took something of a chance because it's a size smaller than my best size, but it sets my head nicely without any coercion.
I think Gus was a little tougher than I am.
It's 3 1/4" on the front and back and 3" on the sides, but with the pencil curl it comes in at 3" and 2 5/8". I like it's size and I like the braid and leather band too. In excellent condition so I'm happy the deal.
Thanks. Did you buy yours new in the early 80's? I like the crease it came with, though at the moment I've got a narrow diamond in it. It's fairly agreeable to shaping on the crown. The brim is steam shaping territory. And I think the brim is somewhat distorted at the moment due to shipping in a box that was too small. It seems to be relaxing a bit though and I'll try it for a few wearings before I think about doing anything different. I'll probably wear it tomorrow and maybe even the next day as it sounds like good felt hat weather.
Indeed I did Michael. I bought it on clearance at a local western store when I was in high school. I remember how stoked I was to have a real Stetson on a teenage burger flipper's wages.
Those crocheted hatbands were used by Stetson & Resistol on their western hats thru the 1970's but were quickly replaced in the early 1980's by the chicken feather hatbands made popular when the movie Urban Cowboy came out in 1980. If you were lookin' for love in all the wrong places you had to have chicken feathers.
