Show us their hats!

[RickP]

Last year when I was clearing out Dads house up in Knoxville, tn, I found a couple of his hats in the bottom of a box full of boots and an old VCR on top. ( pretty much crushed) Nothing fancy..Just a couple of Cavendars Western Wear store hats. Got them cleaned and un-crushed. One was a nondescript straw thing, and the other was this Master Hatters of Texas half acre silverbelly hat with a 4-1/8" wide brim. ( Somehow I never noticed just how big his hats were lol) Its was a 6-7/8 and has been carefully worked out to a 7-1/4. Did some trimming and reshaping into something akin to a "Justified" hat with a 2-1/2" brim. Now it actually gets used once in a while. Long tern plan is to someday do some pouncing to thin it out and lighten it up a bit

Yesterday I was going through some boxes and actually found a picture of him in the hat. Miss ya Dad....thanks for the hat!