Yea, but the "original" had a feather in the ribbon, too...(nm)

Posted by Patterson from 63.104.29.92 on January 10, 2001 at 19:32:36:

In Reply to: What old hatmaker? What shop? Location? (nm) posted by Fedora on January 10, 2001 at 18:47:33:

: : He said the original hat was made by Mr Stetson himself like 80 years ago(I think, either that or he made it in 1880) and was a studio prop in storage in LA for many years. When it was time to make the costume Ford went to the prop storage facilities and looked through all the hats and picked one out. He said then it was replicated by another hat company for the movies. Now whether this guy knew what he was talking about or not I have no idea. He did seem to know alot about the hat saying it had a taller crown than most fedoras. He told me all of this before I really had any knowledge of the Indy costume. He also mentioned that the original Stetson was a collectors item being so old and made by Stetson himself. Well that hat store is now out of business or else I would go back and ask him about it again. Oh well.

: : Matt

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