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Location: Loma Linda, CA | Buying my first hat to run barrels in
What do you prefer?
I really like the look of straw, but I feel like felt might be heavier and stay on better?
But I feel like felt is for fancier people than me lol!
I guess my biggest concern is it staying on during a run! |
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Location: Texas | Well "cowboy etiquette" is that you wear a felt hat between Labor Day and Easter, and wear a straw hat until Labor Day - which is usually fitting.
If a hat fits right it the weight won't determine or keep it on your head.
Excuse that horrible spelling, my phone obviously isn't very smart.
Edited by EqualRanch 2015-04-06 10:42 PM
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | Lol yeah I heard that... just didn't know if there was a difference in the type of hat that stayed on the best. I've heard of some tricks... like a tampon? Will help the hat stay on and such.
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 The BHW Book Worm
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| Following this because I'm in the market for a hat preferably straw |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I can't get straw hats to fit me right so they stay on during a run. I have 3 felt hats that I wear year around. |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | CYA Ranch - 2015-04-06 7:55 PM
I can't get straw hats to fit me right so they stay on during a run. I have 3 felt hats that I wear year around.
This. I solely run in a felt hat. |
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Location: Austin, Texas, where it can get really weird!! | Had the same question, also i have a very small head, like 6th grader sized like smaller than a 6&3/4 so im going to the hatters tomorrow to get fitted, i have never bought a hat in a store that fit before, only got one at a cowboy gathering from heads or tails hatters, lost in the shuffle in college. Going to lockhart to tx hatters tomorrow. Anyone else got this prob?
Edited by kewlcowgurl 2015-04-06 11:57 PM
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Straw in the summer, felt in the fall/winter. I have a super small head and Resistols usually come small enough (6 5/8). I line mine with panty liners to help them fit better. I also shove my head INTO the crown. It's imperative that you take it to a hat shaper to get it shaped. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
Posts: 7268
| Straw in the summer and felt in the winter. It absolutely drives me insane (yes, short trip), when I see somebody wearing a BLACK, felt hat when it's 110 degrees!  |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I use bobby pins to hold mine on. I only have a nice Palm straw right now but plan on getting a felt later this year. I wore my straw last October to meet the dress code. I'm sure I got a few looks, but at the time I didn't want to spend the money on a hat for one show. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | I like felt better then straw, but yes, straw in between easter and labor day. I typically break this rule if I'm running indoors during the summer... I'm a rebel. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | I never have issues with either my straws or felts staying on. The secert is to get them made for your head.
Before I started doing that there was no amount of toilet paper, bobby pins etc that could keep one on my head.
You do not have to special order one. I buy all my straw from American Hat Company and their reps make the ones that they have at shows fit me to a T. |
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 I don't want to screw up!
Posts: 3881
Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | American Straw hats fit me perfect! I am looking to get a black felt hat at probably NHSFR. American was great to work with. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | kewlcowgurl - 2015-04-06 11:53 PM
Had the same question, also i have a very small head, like 6th grader sized like smaller than a 6&3/4 so im going to the hatters tomorrow to get fitted, i have never bought a hat in a store that fit before, only got one at a cowboy gathering from heads or tails hatters, lost in the shuffle in college. Going to lockhart to tx hatters tomorrow. Anyone else got this prob?
MEEEE!!!!
I can still wear the kiddie hats with the elastic! Lol right now I have a 6 3/4 Charlie 1 horse and I have the pull the back of the hat band down for it to fit. I pin it and I have only lost it once because I didn't shove it down on my head enough. I would love to get a Custom one made but for no more than I have to wear one I can't justify the money. I envy people with normal sized heads... |
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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | I have never found a straw hat that I don't look ridiculous in, so I break tradition and wear a black felt year round. |
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| I honestly think that "hat etiquette" was made by arena cowboys. Growing up the only hat etiquette rules we had was: Always remove your hat during the National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance, the Passing of the Flag, In Church, during a Prayer, an indoor Wedding, or a Funeral, You NEVER touch another man's hat without permission, Never lay a cowboy hat down on the brim,"Tipping" the hat is a sign of respect, men "never" tip their hat to another man, when sitting down at a table for a meal, the hat should come off, and in our house you never wore your everyday hat to church.... My grandpa always wore a black felt hat, my dad would wear which ever he felt like, he had several and it usually was a straw hat. I personally don't care what time a year it is, if you have a favorite hat wear it, summer, winter, ,spring or fall, wear the darn thing and remember the true etiquette of a cowboy hat. |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | I ended up getting a straw :)
I'll get it in a month cause it's custom made and will run in it next month to get used to it before Vegas :) |
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Location: SW MO | The real COWBOY rule is you can wear a felt hat anytime, but a straw only in the summer. Years ago you could only wear a felt hat at Pro rodeos |
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Location: Kansas | I prefer felt, I can never get a straw hat to stay on or else I'd wear them. |
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Posts: 725
| BarrelRacing4Christ - 2015-04-06 10:19 PM
CYA Ranch - 2015-04-06 7:55 PM
I can't get straw hats to fit me right so they stay on during a run. I have 3 felt hats that I wear year around.
This. I solely run in a felt hat.
I love my felt hat, I don't own a straw hat but have a palm hat and it doesn't like the rain so I tend to always wear my beloved black felt.  |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Straw in the spring and summer and felt in the fall and winter.
I flip the hat band down in the back and it makes it fit tighter during a run. Haven't lost one yet. Be sure to get a hat maker/shaper to fit one to your head otherwise you will lose them every time. If they're too snug they hurt your head, too loose and you have to pad them so much during a run you look funny in pictures.
Just my opinion. Good luck. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| I wear a 6 5/8 - anybody ELSE have a pin-head like THIS? When I see one my size, I snatch it up. I'd love to have a custom but I'm too much of a tight-wad. |
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Veteran
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Location: Nowhere Land | I personally 100% prefer Felt hats. I know they are hot in the summer.. but what are you wearing them for.. 60 seconds? You wont die of heat stroke from wearing a felt had for a minute. LOL (no offence to anyone who thinks they are silly in the summer) BUT I find them to fit much better and stay on my head much easier, when you find the correct fit (round, oval etc) and size, you shouldnt need bobby pins or a weenie strap (aka stampede strap) *haha* to hold your hat on. Finding a good hat shaper is hard too.. sadly. :-( Depending on your area.. |
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Straw or Felt?