There is nothing wrong with the cowboy hat.
It takes a big man to wear one.
Sure beats a backward ball cap, pants on the ground attitude.
Well the liberals do seem to like the cowboy hats in Brokeback Mountain.
As it is, I've gathered a nice collection in my time here. As a matter of fact when I brought the family here, I let the each of them pick out their own hat at a Western goods store.
Now my collection includes sombreros and styles used from Arizona South down to the Llanos and into the Andes. Brilliant styles and variety.
Again, only a fool or rather a liberal would hate this stuff. Not much difference there...
I’ve got a bone Stetson with a pinch crease.
I own 3 Stetsons, 1 Resistol, 5 pairs of Lamas/Justin boots. These are the accessories of a man that works for a living. Nike is the shoe and hat of the parasites.
I live in Texas and work outdoors in the sun, so I’ve got an assortment of cowboy hats. I never leave home without one of them on my head.
Not only do they protect you from that gigantic ball of million degree gas in the sky, they also look cool as hell.
Me and my buddies, country musicians and promoters, were wondering one recent day why it is that country music singers wear those cowboy hats. I said “country”, because the genre has long ceased to be “country and western”, when even the Texas musicians, nowadays categorized as Americana (and not as often as the Nashville country pop crowd wearing the hats) don’t play western style of country music. During the 90s in Nashville, when some identifiably country music was still being played, these hatted newcomers, raised on the Eagles and Billy Joel, and playing pop rock or as often as not pop schmaltz, were referred to somewhat disdainfully as the ‘hat acts’.
My cousin, a rancher in Montana and a native of western Colorado had a good collection of Stetsons and was always wearing one while outdoors, but he said he said that he didn’t know what a “cowboy hat” was.
If you visit one of the country music festivals in Europe during the summer, and there is a whole buncha them in all countries of Northern and Eastern Europe - Euros are crazy about American country music - you can buy some fine cowboy hats there at reasonable prices and very well made.
I like a cow boy hat when out in the sun. There is nothing worse than sunburn on the eyelids and ears.
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I love cowboy hats and boots on a naked tan woman with long hair
Goddangit.
I used to wear a Stetson for years. Western boot also. But then, all my kin came from the High plains and were ranchers as we were.
Then back in the late 1970s came the URBAN COWBOY craze. I was so offended by people who did not know how to wear a hat properly I threw mine and the boots in the closet for years and went to a golfing cap.
Then back in the late 1980s I began to wear them again after the Urban Cowboy craze died.
To me, most hats have way too big a brim and look like you are about to “take off”. I like a three inch brim with a pinch front and it looks nice on me.
I don’t like any hat that a person buys so they can look like a singing cowboy (singing cowboys are referred to as a “Hat act”). After a while you can tell if a person is a real cowboy or rancher by the way he wears his hat and boots.
We went back west a few years ago with my mom and sister. In our old town we saw a man walk out of the bank. I, my sister and my mom glanced him over and recognized he was a real cowboy. Several years later I took my mom to the doctor, and as we sat in the waiting room out walked this young man dressed to the hilt in a garb it is hard to talk about. Spangles on his hat, a floor length duster, oversized belt buckle. I saw a cowboy wannabe there that day. I thought I would get sick!
As for straw hats, I hate them but they are what we wear here as we don’t want to ruin a good hat with excessive sweat while on a tractor.
I don’t know who designs hats but they need their asses kicked. Several years ago hats stated being made with a FLAT FRONT brim! Idiots! Anyone with an ounce of brains knows a flat front means the wearer does not know how to store his hat properly.
I bought a straw hat to use on our place. Before I was out of the store I had removed the flat front and made it rounded.
I recently bought a new Stetson felt hat made of buffalo felt. Pinch front and it looks good on me. I may never wear a ball cap again. I just wish I could get a good XXX beaver that was soft. Since the government has banned the use of mercury to make the felt all hats feel like starched wool and have a very rough feel. You can definitely tell the difference between my old hats (Stetson, Baily, Resistol) and new ones.
