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WIDE BRIM WESTERN HATS
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The wide-brimmed hats were styles designed before 1979. Their
crown-style pieces are higher on the sides than in the front
or back. When the hat is taken off to sit upside-down on a table,
the hat rocks back and forth. I made that style after rocking
my first and second sons to sleep in 1977 and 1978 ... hence,
the name “rocker crown.” The darker traditional style wide-brim was bought by the great-great- grandson of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. When I made the first one of this style wide-brim, its owner was the great-great-grandson of General Jestin Edwin “Tinker” Lee. I have written the name in some of these hats as the “Tinker Lee” or just “Tinker” crown style. |
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The lighter, neat’s-foot oil tanned color has my peculiar
“swale” in the crown pattern design. All of the earlier
hats incorporated this swale because it helped the brim piece
curl up on the side edges more naturally. Civil War officers'
hats had one center crease, but men pinched in two more side
creases to form what we today describe as a traditional Western
crown style. A side view of these hats shows the center front and back of the crown assembly where the brim is sewn together. It’s dipped a little more than over the sides above the ears. This dip puts tension on the front and back of the brim and results in the sides of the brim more easily curling up in the Western style. This second western hat was bought by David and Martha Woodling. Mrs. Woodling was Buddy Holly’s cousin. She is also cousin to Texas Governor Rick Perry. |
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