suitedcboy
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I have several fedoras and wear them on occasion but western felts are my favorite and are worn daily, even most summer days even if only during the evening or morning.
I see posts here and I think most of us find a shape and style we like and most of our hats end up in that shape and our new acquisitions are that style and will be shaped into "your" shape.
Cowboy hats are that way too. My hats all have cattleman crease as a basis. I like the brim in a certain shape with a bit of roll up front. Many have cutter's dents in the two flanking bashes in crown. I prefer a crown height of a little more than 4 inches and 4 inch or 4 inch plus brim width.
I'm not sure where or why the cattleman's crease became my shape but when I try anything else it doesn't look right or looks "costumey" to me.
For someone who wears western hats, I can see loads of variation in cattleman's creases. I guess it may look boring but I have over 3 dozen part beaver to all beaver to beaver plus chinchilla or beaver plus mink hats and they all have "my" shapes to them and I don't find them boring.
I don't find the classic whippet with a C crown or one of its variation into diamonds or 5 or 6 sided to be boring. I don't find Homburg classic creasing to be boring either.
I see posts here and I think most of us find a shape and style we like and most of our hats end up in that shape and our new acquisitions are that style and will be shaped into "your" shape.
Cowboy hats are that way too. My hats all have cattleman crease as a basis. I like the brim in a certain shape with a bit of roll up front. Many have cutter's dents in the two flanking bashes in crown. I prefer a crown height of a little more than 4 inches and 4 inch or 4 inch plus brim width.
I'm not sure where or why the cattleman's crease became my shape but when I try anything else it doesn't look right or looks "costumey" to me.
For someone who wears western hats, I can see loads of variation in cattleman's creases. I guess it may look boring but I have over 3 dozen part beaver to all beaver to beaver plus chinchilla or beaver plus mink hats and they all have "my" shapes to them and I don't find them boring.
I don't find the classic whippet with a C crown or one of its variation into diamonds or 5 or 6 sided to be boring. I don't find Homburg classic creasing to be boring either.