fedoracentric
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From what I've read here, all the named Stetson models were the low end price-wise. It appears that Stetson used the cool named hats to draw customers into the shop where the clerks would then try to upsell the customer to a higher quality hat. So, Whippets, Stratoliners, etc. were mostly 10 and 12 dollar hats while the DeLuxe, the Twenty, the Twentyfive, 7X and 100 were all higher quality.
Anyway, I find that even the $10 cheapies from 1940-50 are far and away better in feel-of-felt than any new Stetson of today. I had a chance recently to handle a bunch of new Stetson models and they all seemed exactly the same in quality, just different in style. It almost seemed as if they had one felt and then just modeled it into different hats.
Anyway, I find that even the $10 cheapies from 1940-50 are far and away better in feel-of-felt than any new Stetson of today. I had a chance recently to handle a bunch of new Stetson models and they all seemed exactly the same in quality, just different in style. It almost seemed as if they had one felt and then just modeled it into different hats.