If the hat fits...

Jon Dorn — Wed, 2009-12-09 16:00

Loving my new cowboy hat from Greeley Hat Works here in Colorado (it's the one in my picture). I got it a month ago at the company's booth at the PBR fan zone in Vegas while I was there for the bull-riding finals. After wearing an uncomfortable, ill-fitting, headache-producing hat for years, I finally took the plunge and got an expert from Greeley to do a custom-fitting with one of their mid-range hats -- and it made all the difference. This is the most comfortable hat of any type I've worn, and it looks good (or so my wife says).

The fitting was pretty easy, and took about twenty minutes. The first part involved a medieval-looking device that fit over my head and allowed the Greeley hat experts to build a model of the shape of my head. It turns out that I have a very misshaped melon, especially in the right front. Trouble in childbirth? Too much force with the forceps? Who knows, but the drawing spurred much hilarity around the booth.

Can't recommend a custom-fitting enough, and love my Greeley lid. Check em out at www.greeleyhatworks.com.

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Another Hat

Concretecowboy — Fri, 2010-01-22 09:57

I, too, got another hat. I was walking through my local Salvation Army and bang - it leapt out at me. A fairly unused Stetson...

Now my fitting consisted of putting it on my head and guess what? It fit like a glove and so for less that $20.00 dollars I got a great hat already broken in and I supported an organization that helped me 40 years ago when I was a lowly private in the U.S. Army.

Of the other 5 hats I have (2 Resistols, 2 more Stetsons and a Bailey), I bought on ebay and the total cost was probably less than a hundred dollars. I did buy one that did not fit well but put it right back on ebay and made more money than I paid for it. The only hat I bought from a store never really did fit right, even at the insistance of the 'hat specialist'. Go figure.