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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

Orvil Newton

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The Stratton Trooper is always my choice to keep rain or snow out of my hearing aids and off my bifocals. I flattened the brim and gave it a modified center dent with a slight front pinch so it looks more "Civilian". For warmth, I inserted a polar fleece lining made from an old ski cap, making this the warmest hat I own, even with the side vents.

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Photo is from last week. weather today is thick freezing fog.
 
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The Stratton Trooper is always my choice to keep rain or snow out of my hearing aids and off my bifocals. I flattened the brim and gave it a modified center dent with a slight front pinch so it looks more "Civilian". For warmth, I inserted a polar fleece lining made from an old ski cap, making this the warmest hat I own, even with the side vents.

48412627_10215799550334571_1116638849250885632_o.jpg

Photo is from last week. weather today is thick freezing fog.

A have a Stratton Sheriff model and it can certainly take any abuse you might throw at it. Yours looks great and seeing it in the weather is awesome. Did you buy the hat big to accommodate the fleece?


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Orvil Newton

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cruisinglealea.com
A have a Stratton Sheriff model and it can certainly take any abuse you might throw at it. Yours looks great and seeing it in the weather is awesome. Did you buy the hat big to accommodate the fleece?


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No. I might have if I had thought of it, but it has not been a problem. I just tuck the bottom half inch of the liner into the sweatband. The liner is just a single layer of middle weight polar fleece cut from a 50 cent ski cap from a second hand store. The cap had three layers and by experimenting I realized that the single mid-weight liner was fine in any temperature warm enough to go without covering my ears - above about 20 degrees.
 
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No. I might have if I had thought of it, but it has not been a problem. I just tuck the bottom half inch of the liner into the sweatband. The liner is just a single layer of middle weight polar fleece cut from a 50 cent ski cap from a second hand store. The cap had three layers and by experimenting I realized that the single mid-weight liner was fine in any temperature warm enough to go without covering my ears - above about 20 degrees.

Thanks. I might try rigging something like that too.


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