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What is your favorite hat crease?

scottyrocks

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Nice work. Love playing with creases. Somehow very soothing.

Yes, I agree.

In fact, the last couple of evenings have included playing with the creases in many of my hats.

I also decided to set up camera phone up at eye level and take moving pictures of me in the hats. I basically turned my head and body so I could see the hat from all angles, the way others would see them.

Guys, photos and mirrors don't give nearly the information that a moving picture does. Hats that I didn't particularly like in the mirror proved to be very nice in motion. And I was able to tweak some creases, and just experiment, with a number of my hats.
 
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T Jones

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There is just something so clean and crisp about that teardrop. Love it.
Thank you, buddy. I don't have any problems getting them that way. I apply a few ancient Chinese secrets and come up with tall straight crowns and crisp creases. ;) Here's another of my Resistols. This one in Chestnut with a contrasting 6 ply mid ribbon. Same tall crown and same deep crease. I can easily do other creases, I just have a preference for Teardrops...

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moontheloon

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Yes, I agree.

In fact, the last couple of evenings have included playing with the creases in many of my hats.

I also decided to set up camera phone up at eye level and take moving pictures of me in the hats. I basically turned my head and body so I could see the hat from all angles, the way others would see them.

Guys, photos and mirrors don't give nearly the information that a moving picture does. Hats that I didn't particularly like in the mirror proved to be very nice in motion. And I was able to tweak some creases, and just experiment, with a number of my hats.
agreed 100%

this is why I've been experimenting with WHAYWT motion entries for the past couple weeks
 

AbbaDatDeHat

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I started to put my usual diamond in this Mallory, but like it better with five points.
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Greetings Robert et al:
I like it a ton!
I think i’d have to name that crease “The 5 Point Drape” because of the way the rear felt “drapes” over in quite the dramatic form.
Which is a very good and way cool thing imho. Keep em flying!
Be well. Bowen
 

Benzadmiral

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For my Open Road-style hats, I like the cattleman crease, but with the brim dipped in front and curled in back, a la the fedora.

Otherwise, I seem to gravitate to the diamond or C-crown with a small dome in the center to clear my head, moderate-to-deep side pinches, and a somewhat loose pinch in the front. My 1990s-era Stetson Temples came with a centerdent. I reworked the nougat one into a C-crown, but listened to the hat and set it back to centerdent. In contrast, my VS Tucker came with the centerdent, but I had to raise the rear of the crown to miss my own crown. So eventually I redid it into a C-crown, and it is much better to wear that way.
 
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I bought this old Bee Hats western months ago with the intention of converting it to either a fedora or an outback hat. The crown was almost seven inches! Rather than lowering the crown by changing the brim break I just gave it a very deep crease. It was blocked absolutely straight, but it now has a bit of taper but not enough to bother me. The new sweat is in place and it’s waiting the arrival of some vintage grosgrain ribbon. Brim trimmed to 2.75”. I tried to crease it differently but this is what the hat wanted.

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The hat in its original condition:

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Short Balding Guy

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Hat creases are iterally organic at my house. This morning I was wearing the pic'd Stetson Playboy for a dog walk. The dogs and I were thru the woods, big open fields and around the lake. I had steamed and shaped a soft diamond yesterday evening in the hat . After the dog walk the crown looked like this:

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A couple of light hits with tree branches, taking it off with gloves to shake snow off the brim and a couple of times tugging it tight to fight the gusty winds off the lake and the crown changed shape. A hat at "work" will have a changing profile.

I could steam in a "long-term crease" but feel that this hat whispers to me to have a soft crease.

Eric -
 

RJR

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Hat creases are iterally organic at my house. This morning I was wearing the pic'd Stetson Playboy for a dog walk. The dogs and I were thru the woods, big open fields and around the lake. I had steamed and shaped a soft diamond yesterday evening in the hat . After the dog walk the crown looked like this:

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A couple of light hits with tree branches, taking it off with gloves to shake snow off the brim and a couple of times tugging it tight to fight the gusty winds off the lake and the crown changed shape. A hat at "work" will have a changing profile.

I could steam in a "long-term crease" but feel that this hat whispers to me to have a soft crease.

Eric -
It has a mind of its own,doesn't it.
 

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