Monte
Practically Family
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Nice one Renault. You could be from a different time.
I'm on and off the lounge in cycles and I remembered that I had a very old, no-name western which I haven't shown yet. It had some scattered remnants of a sweatband with very tiny stitches, a dark ring where the medium ribbon used to be, and nothing else. Therefore, I took the hat and a spare sweatband to a sewing service I use for alterations. They called me in later to pick it up. Not only did they do a great job, but they only charged me $12!
The color is a warm beige. The felt is the most flexible and thin that I've handled, but seems to be holding the pencil curl just fine. The crown has a cattlemen's crease but I may change it? It's a little too tapered for my tastes.
At any rate, it seems very old to my eye and I have a feeling it's '40s or older so here it is alongside a '50s OR to give some idea of scale.
Me with a t-shirt and cowboy hat, no less:
I'm on and off the lounge in cycles and I remembered that I had a very old, no-name western which I haven't shown yet. It had some scattered remnants of a sweatband with very tiny stitches, a dark ring where the medium ribbon used to be, and nothing else. Therefore, I took the hat and a spare sweatband to a sewing service I use for alterations. They called me in later to pick it up. Not only did they do a great job, but they only charged me $12!
The color is a warm beige. The felt is the most flexible and thin that I've handled, but seems to be holding the pencil curl just fine. The crown has a cattlemen's crease but I may change it? It's a little too tapered for my tastes.
At any rate, it seems very old to my eye and I have a feeling it's '40s or older so here it is alongside a '50s OR to give some idea of scale.
Me with a t-shirt and cowboy hat, no less:
