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The Late History of John B. Stetson Company, et al Suitors

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More pics of Khrushchev wearing the same Stetson while touring an Iowa farm & the Iowa Pork plant, before enjoying a hot dog.

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The Stetson factory outlet store in St. Joe Mo. is still open as far as I know, I was there about a year ago. Actually I'm due for a trip to St Joe to that store.
 
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Not to prolong this further but I hope maybe in the future someone will find the link to when Khrushchev might have been presented with a Stetson hat(s). I was unable to find much on his travels in Pennsylvania, don't even know that he was in Philadelphia. Pres Eisenhower owned a private home at Gettysburg, ajacent to the Gettysburg battlefield ( owned now by the US Park Service). He may have taken Khrushchev there.

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In more business attire with a black hat.

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The car was the 1950 Lincoln Mercury Presidential "Bubbletop" Limousine Eisenhower had made the executive decision to have built.

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The Stetson factory outlet store in St. Joe Mo. is still open as far as I know, I was there about a year ago. Actually I'm due for a trip to St Joe to that store.
If you read his intiniary Khrushchev wasn't even in the state of MO.
 
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Just a point of clarification, as this thread is taking about two different things. First, there is the John B. Stetson Company, which never went out of business (they just stopped manufacturing their own hats) and still owns the Stetson name and other trademarks. They only license the trademarks and the rights to produce hats using the name to RHE Hatco in Garland, TX. This thread is mainly talking about the companies that licensed the rights to make hats with the Stetson name.

Ira Guilden, who had control of the John B. Stetson Company in the 1970s, passed control of the company to his son, Paul Guilden. Paul passed control to his daughter, Xiao Li Tan, a couple of years before his death in 2022. She’s the president and chief creative officer, and a wonderful woman with a vision. She hired me earlier this year for some contract work, based on a referral from Matt Range at Hatco, since I’ve also done contract work for Hatco over the last few years. The John B. Stetson Company does business globally as Stetson Worldwide, LLC.

Hope this helps clear things up a bit.
 
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Just a point of clarification, as this thread is taking about two different things. First, there is the John B. Stetson Company, which never went out of business (they just stopped manufacturing their own hats) and still owns the Stetson name and other trademarks. They only license the trademarks and the rights to produce hats using the name to RHE Hatco in Garland, TX. This thread is mainly talking about the companies that licensed the rights to make hats with the Stetson name.

Ira Guilden, who had control of the John B. Stetson Company in the 1970s, passed control of the company to his son, Paul Guilden. Paul passed control to his daughter, Xiao Li Tan, a couple of years before his death in 2022. She’s the president and chief creative officer, and a wonderful woman with a vision. She hired me earlier this year for some contract work, based on a referral from Matt Range at Hatco, since I’ve also done contract work for Hatco over the last few years. The John B. Stetson Company does business globally as Stetson Worldwide, LLC.

Hope this helps clear things up a bit.

There's a world of Stetson branded products. I think it would be obvious to most that there is still a Stetson company.

I had been under the impression that the name and rights were sold lock, stock, and barrel through the years and was currently in the hands of Hatco. One of the reasons is during my visits to the Garland outlet, they also sold shirts and other assorted items branded Stetson.

So it clears it up for me, at least.
 

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