How to shape and cut a felt cowboy hat at the historic Emporium Western Store in Bakersfield, Ca. 

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I creased hats for 20 years in both a retail and factory environment. When Urban Cowboy came out retailers demanded we crease hats for them. They were determined to take the magic out of the hat buying experience. We did what or accounts wanted. I did not make a lick of sense. They wanted to take a hat out of a box and ring it up. Go figure.

Wow. Keep it coming sir. I love hats and I love American hat company so the stories are awesome so legit with no sarcasm keep the history lessons coming

I swear I’m not being sarcastic I want that to be crystal clear.

@@Cowboy3697 American Hat started in 1915 in steamy Houston, Texas. Sam Silver slept under wagons on then muddy Main Street.

@@Silver7481 that's amazing! Would there be a decumentery about that?

Yep hat’s are awesome. Love Stetson.

Come see me🤠

O well... Check them out when you get home. Did you get a good camp spot? That's a big park.

I’m in Stockton too! Where you recommend I go for a nice straw? I teach for SUSD!

@@LodiSanta the store I worked for was called Broken Arrow on Copperopolis Rd just east of Alpine Rd. When Dorothy died her daughter took it over but not sure if it's still open. If not then try Robinsons in Lodi out off of Hyw 12 east. Its same parking lot as Mexican restaurant on south side of the road.

From the shell of the lac beetles. It takes many thousands of the little buggers.

Yes thank you for watching and thank you for your comment have a great day

​@@liquidmidnight1I know it's been 3 years according to the time stamp but in case anyone else is wandering these comments--it is from the words shell and lac because it's a secretion from female lac bugs but it's not their shells, it's just harvested and processed as little shards. Because it's gathered from the trees these bugs are living, traveling, and secreting on there are insects incidentally harvested with it but you might be thinking of their relatives in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, the three different cochineal scale insects (cochineal, Armenian cochineal, and Polish cochineal) who are directly processed for red dyes.

Jeez in Australia we just beeswax our slouch hats..... it waterproof better and doesn't suddenly become a wasp magnet

@@richardcostello360 US Army was/is too often more concerned with parade ground appearance than field expediency. Someone may have thought that sugar-painted campaign hats looked better on parade. I remember seeing sugar-painted tires on combat and field vehicles at Stateside military installations in the 1960s, with the vehicle bodies painted glossy OD because they looked better in the motor pool.

@@douglascox9996 Australia hasn't used the slouch hat in the field since the 60's......but because we've got bases in high heat/high humidity areas we tend to remember that putting "parade ground" effort into a hat that's got a high likelihood of being rained on is a bad idea 😂 Still wear 100% polyester parade uniforms though 😩

That's cool. How much roughly? I"m headed there to get one.

@@kee7678 just wondering if you ever got a reply on cost and if you made it there? Im heading there from NJ in march

@@fastglock45 Hey man...no I didn't actually get a price yet from anybody and haven't headed up there yet. If you find out, please let me know too!

@MysteriousOklahoma Hi. I continued it and did not. My dad, Sam Silver's son, wanted to control everything. I mean everything. Micro-manager. My way or the highway. He cut me loose one Saturday morning. Things happen for the best. He was going to run the show and that means every inch of it. Great memories. I just did not meet his specifications.

@MysteriousOklahoma Hey. The hat company was located in Houston. It’s hot, steamy and too busy for my tastes. I went to college in New Mexico which is high and dry and beautiful. I figured out how to retreat to my old stomping grounds of NM. I got myself fired and moved back to God’s country. Life is

@MysteriousOklahoma I am living large in New Mexico. Houston sucks. It’s good I got fired. I would have missed life’s adventure. Houston is the arm pit of the universe. Glad things happened the way they did. I knew a lot about hats. Now I know a lot about enjoying life.🪕

@MysteriousOklahoma Give me mountains. Think one would fit in my casket?

Cool to see this comment considering I work at American Hat Company now!

Hell yeah 🤙🏼😂

Was your head still in it?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I'm only 70 miles away. I need to take a drive

Thank you🤠

Thanks🤠

I've done just that. I usually have to reshape my brim a couple times a year because the elements like to change it. Also do my own gapping

Cool guys

Absolutely! I have my tea kettle and have reshaped my hats myself👍🤠

Thanks for the hint. My horse stepped on my vaquero style straw (palm leaf?) hat and the crown is dented in so it wobbles on my head. Can't just punch it out. Will try the teakettle trick.

It's pretty cool to get a hat shaped at the same place Buck Owens and Merle Haggard did.

Me too.

Me also, but a wallpaper steamer is greatness if you have one.

Glad you like them!

you drive a BMW and you think this is the biggest time you've wasted? lol

@@btuff well when I'm on my BMW is a waste of 8.5 seconds at a time

But I thought it was cool how hats are made

Or the amish

Unless you're in southern Arizona🙃🌵

Or Florida

or texas!

Black 10x all year long have a Sunday hat and a everyday hat

@@roadmonkeytj you guys are responding to this like I made this rule up... this rule was in existence long before I was around... unless of course you live in the jungle or desert...why on earth would you be looking at felt hats if you live in the jungle or Deseret, in the first place?

Mine too!

yeah mine too

@@hayden8491 well there goes the felt hat industry once peta finds out....lol

That’s awesome. I’m sure he’d be happy seeing you wear it.

We have a video with him. Search Big Al BTUFF