I was riding my bike a fair bit this summer while wearing a Panama of one kind of another -- their brims kept flapping up (and off) or down. It was silly. So I bought a $40 Stetson with coarse straw weave and a short brim. It stays on when bike riding. Yay!
(A good thread itself -- hats for riding bikes.)
...But this hat has a problem, or two. I bought it from an air-conditioned shop on a day when it was hilariously humid outside. Probably 99% -- it finally burst into a huge downpour. The hat seemed fine in the shop. A day later -- after being outside in the humidity for hours -- I noticed that its brim now had several big wrinkles and waves in the front portion. Also the darn thing seemed a bit off-kilter -- like the crown points one way and the brim another.
Thus my question: Is it possible, easy or reasonable to dampen the hat and iron its brim flat in some way so as to reshape it without the waves or mis-direction?
Here's a pic. You can only see the brim waviness slightly, and maybe the off-kilter is a bit detectable. Pic provided for entertainment purposes only. : )
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(A good thread itself -- hats for riding bikes.)
...But this hat has a problem, or two. I bought it from an air-conditioned shop on a day when it was hilariously humid outside. Probably 99% -- it finally burst into a huge downpour. The hat seemed fine in the shop. A day later -- after being outside in the humidity for hours -- I noticed that its brim now had several big wrinkles and waves in the front portion. Also the darn thing seemed a bit off-kilter -- like the crown points one way and the brim another.
Thus my question: Is it possible, easy or reasonable to dampen the hat and iron its brim flat in some way so as to reshape it without the waves or mis-direction?
Here's a pic. You can only see the brim waviness slightly, and maybe the off-kilter is a bit detectable. Pic provided for entertainment purposes only. : )
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