The only thing better than a hat that fits right, is a pair of boots that fit right. [/quote]

Agreed

I need to buy me a custom as well

I knew an older gentleman rancher that gave 2k for a custom beaver hat. Just like collecting guns, watches, etc.

If I got a cowboy hat I’d be all hat and no cattle. That probably doesn’t stop everyone. But it does me.

Goes along with the “you’re all mouth” saying

Both are fitting

Standard Hatworks in Waco. Hard to beat a Stetson Silverbelly with a Cattleman's crease and a 4" brim shaped to your liking for a dress hat. Prices vary according to the number of XXX's you want. Range from a couple hundo to a couple grand.

...and here we go!

Me too. I wouldn’t mind having one but I’m definitely no cowboy lol. I rode a horse once on our honeymoon though.

I wonder what Matt Dillion wears.

I have a resistol 20x silver belly and a 15x black resistol.

I met a real cowboy on a horse only once. He was on a Colorado mountain moving the cattle from high ground to low ground due to a pending snow. Their ranch backed up the San Juan NF where I was elk hunting. He was wearing hunting boots and a tiger stripe boonie hat. After talking about elk for a bit, I asked him why he wasn't wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and he said anyone that does isn't a real cowboy. He had a bedroll and other supplies on his mule and said he would be sleeping in the woods for about 5 days. After that, I laugh a bit to myself when I see someone all decked out with smooth soled uninsulated cowboy boots and a hat that will blow off a hundred times a day in a good wind.

70's worked ranch in Dakota's. Winter rode out after 3 bulls, found two..
Snow twas blinding, bearly see 5ft infront of ya... black resistal cowboy hat ,
Blue geen jacket, with down in side, thin gloves, cowboy boots, beard, mustash frossen,
couldnt feel feet nor, reins in me hand...

We branded old school, fire/hot branding iron... did roundups...
$300.00 month room & board...
Bough new hat, threw in water trough, wore & shaped it till dried...

Wearing one is like many styles of dress, and a lot of them are merely costumes for most. It’s no different than the guys wearing Affliction shirts and flat bills thinking they are fighters and probably never have had a scrap, the middle aged jiggly woman wearing tank tops and yoga pants that never hits the gym, the guys wearing fishing jerseys wanting to be Ike Iconelli, the list goes on I suppose. To each their own.

I wear a straw (with lots of ventilation on the crown) in the summer, mainly for the shade, doing stuff on the ranch. Inside band has to be cloth of some kind though. I sweat like a "professional lady" in church with a leather inside band.

No one in my family has run cattle in about 4 generations. The only grandfather I did know wore some kind of hat everywhere. Most men of his generation did. He homesteaded (with hired help) a sheep ranch in Wenden, AZ in the 1920s, but let it go when my grandmother died.

I have known a couple of guys that would not change out of their smooth-sole cowboy boots and then would try to walk for hours on a rocky, west Texas deer lease. Staying "in character" causes them a lot of needless back and ankle pain. Also met a guy that was a relative of the man that married one of my daughters. He fancied himself a fiddle player in Bandera. (He wasn't.) He tried hard to be "a character", like so many ne'er do wells around places like Bandera, Luckenbach, etc. The wedding reception was about 250 people, indoors, and this idiot had to keep his dumbazz black cowboy hat on. I was footing the bill for the shindig. I have an unhealthy habit of spotting the attention prostitute at weddings and funerals.

I'm sort of the same, then I realized I wear a baseball cap and don't play baseball. It's just a hat, keeps the sun and weather off and keeps my balding head warm in the winter.

I don’t guess I know that one

I have no cattle but love wearing a straw cowboy hat when mowing my little suburban plot or work-days at the lease for the same reason.

I wear felt because the wife likes it and says it puts her in the mood. All you haters can suck it lol.

I worked on a 8,000 acre cattle ranch for about 4 years in my late teens to about 21. My dad and grand father were cattlemen as well. Then my dad and mom moved to the metroplex and and i was born in Dallas.

Do not wear a Cowboy hat like I used to,

Poser-
To pose: To pretend, to be somebody you're not, to be part of a culture or genre just to fit in.

We always called them culdesac cowboys....

Well I’m not trying to pretend or pose. I grew up around cows and just got a few more recently to mess around with. I despise horses, always been afraid of them lol. But I guess I shouldn’t wear boots or hat since I don’t work the King or the 6666’s.

That relative to where you’re from. I’ve known some real cow and horse folks that looked more like the marlboro man.

For the record my comment was about me. I’d just feel ridiculous. If someone wants to wear one and doesn’t feel as such giddy up. I’ve looked I’ve tried on. Just can’t.

There are no doubt better boot options for cold weather but that make no sense considering the origin of cowboy hats and boots.

Cowboy hats were just a different variation of what was commonly referred to a a western style hat. Most folks wore hats in the 1800’s-mid 1900’s.

They had a wider brim than alot of urban style hats ( think a fedora or Tom Landry style hat ) for increased protection against Sun and rain. A person in the cattle business did not have a monopoly on that style of hat.


Nowadays it’s common for a person who has a tie to a western or rural lifestyle to wear one regardless of the ownership of bovine or equine.

I wear one probability 3-5 days a week in the winter. I have owned cows in the past but none currently and really don’t care for horses since Henry Ford made his invention. I don’t rodeo an am not sponsored by Cinch.

It keeps my head warm and keeps the Sun off my ears and neck unlike a ball cap and I’ve had one on in a few blizzards and rainstorms

It’s interesting to note that a cowboy was a rather low paying/not very prestigious position historically. It’s not something that carried around a lot of weight in its time, more like a migrant worker would today.

I Don't own a horse. Don't even want one. I have a few cows. I wear a hat when at the ranch to keep the sun off of my ears and neck and lately my balding head. Baseball cap doesn't cut it.

I Don't wear it for the cows - they couldn't care less. Don't wear to impress other people - I couldn't care less.

Do people wear cowboy hats when plowing mules? Asking for another THFer.

Only in Arkansas!