Re: Update: Quest for the Fedora... The Bushman works!!!!

Posted by Shunya from spider-to056.proxy.aol.com on October 06, 1999 at 15:55:01:

In Reply to: Update: Quest for the Fedora... posted by Patterson on October 06, 1999 at 10:43:08:

: Thanks to Jack Skellington's post, I decided to check around at some of the many local western wear shops. Of the eight I called, all said that they could cut the brim (front-back-sides) to different widths (i.e. dimensional) and none of them wanted to charge me anything for it. All said it was pretty standard for retailers selling high quality cowboy hats. None of them cared that I was buying the hat somewhere else, or that it wasn't a cowboy hat.

: This is going to be easier then I thought!

: Cheers!

: Lieutenant Colonel John Patterson

I just got back from San Antonio with my Bushman shaped, cut, and ribboned and I could just die!!! This is just about the exact hat I saw in the dark movie theatre so many years ago. (I say almost cuz my head is shaped funny so my hats never fit me just right) The crown is tall (5 1/2) Even the store employee commented on the height. They cut the brim from its 3 1/4 down to 2 3/4 as I felt the Raiders fedora had a wide brim all the way around as opposed to the dimensional cut. Black brown wide ribbon...ooolala. I took pictures so that I could scan it but I haven`t developed them yet. But the Bushman definitely works!!!!

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So, the color does work then? Patterson 16:13:48 10/06/99 (0)

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: : Thanks to Jack Skellington's post, I decided to check around at some of the many local western wear shops.  Of the eight I called, all said that they could cut the brim (front-back-sides) to different widths (i.e. dimensional) and none of them wanted to charge me anything for it.  All said it was pretty standard for retailers selling high quality cowboy hats.  None of them cared that I was buying the hat somewhere else, or that it wasn't a cowboy hat.

: : This is going to be easier then I thought!

: : Cheers!

: : Lieutenant Colonel John Patterson

:     I just got back from San Antonio with my Bushman shaped, cut, and ribboned and I could just die!!! This is just about the exact hat I saw in the dark movie theatre so many years ago. (I say almost cuz my head is shaped funny so my hats never fit me just right) The crown is tall (5 1/2) Even the store employee commented on the height. They cut the brim from its 3 1/4 down to 2 3/4 as I felt the Raiders fedora had a wide brim all the way around as opposed to the dimensional cut. Black brown wide ribbon...ooolala. I took pictures so that I could scan it but I haven`t developed them yet. But the Bushman definitely works!!!!

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