Flipped brim hats?

[GunClick Rick]

I apreciate that,i still got some tricks to learn..Like SEWING ON A DADBURN CROWN RIBBON!!!!!!!! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH DADRAPPINSNICKLEFRAKEBRACKLERACK!!!!!!!!!!

[Highlander999]

Interesting, one of the best examples (Correct or not) was John Dierkes in Shane as Morgan Ryker.  His hat had the proverbial "Wind Flap" on the front.  The best picture I've been able to find so far:

[Major 2]

 John Dierkes wore a similar flip style hat in John Wayne's  Alamo & The Comancheros 
..and a Kepi in Red Badge of Courage

[Fox Creek Kid]

And he carried a real Henry rifle in Shane. 

[buttebob]

This has been very educational. I never thought about pushing the hat back on the head or flipping up a brim for picture taking purposes. So with that in mind I studied two pictures of Texas Jack Omohundro. One had his hat brim  turned up in the front and one had his hat brim turned up on the side. The front on shot had no shadows in the picture and the brim was turned up in the front. The one with the brim turned up on the right side had shadows on the left side of his face.
From the little I've read the most common hat was either the Boss of the Plains (Wyatt Earp's hat in Tombstone), or whatever you were wearing when you arrived (slouch, kepi, derby, fiddlers).

As to shaping a hat: I bought a old Resistol Stagecoach with a cattleman crown and a standard brim. I didn't care that much for it so I read about reshaping. What I read said to steam it. So I heated up the water in the tea kettle and created an open crown and an Aussie type brim.  Ten years later it was still an open crown and Aussie brim.

[Bruce W Sims]

Hi, Folks:

I know we are talking about brims but I wanted to also put in a word for the hat bands.
Frankly I never cared much about period appropriate hat bands until I started seeing
quite a bit of variance in the movies. I looked at the hats of Jack Nicholson ("Missouri Breaks";
"Goin' South") and then I noted the braided hat band on Josey Wales sidekick. This last was particularly
interesting as it seems to turn up on a couple of historic scouts (C. 1870). What makes this
all especially tough is that the folks wearing hats in period sepia-toned photographes
invariable have their hats back on their heads, so its not easy to see what sort of
individualized hatbands their wearing.

Does anyone know a good resource for this? Most of what I have found are modern takes
on Country and Western styles. More beads and feathers than an Indian Pow-Wow.....

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[1961MJS]

Hi Bruce

I don't have data mainly because I haven't even tried to look, but I would be shocked to find out that many Westerners had a leather hat band with conchos.  I would guess that most Westerners had a ribbon like most people back in the 1920's and 1930's.  I'd also guess that lots of people just used a piece of leather as a wind string.

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