If you turn your ironing board around and use the square end for the waist end of the jeans and you won’t have to fight it as much Tom keep it on the board.
Glad to hear. As for the crown, a tall minnick crow. 12” wide front corner to corner and low sides on the brim. Make sure they put a small dip in as well. Sometime the best thing for a hat shaper is to see a picture of what your are looking for. So you can show them a video from this channel. If you don’t find a good shaper, let me know. I shape hats for folks all of the time. S^C
Purex discontinued it recently. Been looking all over locally for weeks with no luck. Have to order online. Amazon $28 bucks for 6oz 😮 eBay is even worse at nearly double! 😢