What's up with this hat?

[Stu Kettle]

Went to a team roping recently & was surprised to see that most of the hats worn by the competitors were some variation of this rediculous shape.

[Delmonico]

OK, that's not the Cool Hand Luke, that's the West Texas Punch or what most of them call it.  You can hook a team up to it and use it as a scraper box.   

[Delmonico]

This is the Cool Hand Luke.

[Stu Kettle]

Willing to bet none of these guys has ever bee. To west Texas.  All the horse trailers on the place had nebraska license plates.

[Stu Kettle]

The real working cowboys were wearing hats like this.



This is an old friend of mine. He was a cowboy when we were younger,  now he prefers to be called a "cattleman".

[River City John]

I've seen that style before. Seems to me the Coroner of Munchkin City wore that style. I've heard it called "The Shovel".

RCJ

[Delmonico]

The infamous  "Butt Crack" style.



May have been used to pattern a shotgun.

[Arcey]

Either of 'em wearin' a booney? Gettin' kinda partial ta mine. Next spring I'll get a khaki. Black one can get a bit warm.

Kinda liked Roo's shootin' hat. Looked like a workin' hat.

[Stu Kettle]

Doesn't look like any of he butt cracks I'm familiar with. Think if I was going to put one on my head if call it something else.

John, I thought the Munchin Mayor wore a top hat.

Nope Arcey, I was the only one there wearing a boonie.  Mines kind of a grey color.  I wear it with what you'd call "the uniform" 'cept without the crocks.

[Delmonico]

"merican Hats is what most of them wear in the straw type, can order the basic hat shaped how you want.  





Course if they buy an unshaped one it hurts my eyes to shape it.  

[Delmonico]

Out in the sun or rain, I like my 5" plantation style straw palm leaf, know a few working cowboys wear them working.

[Stu Kettle]

Makes me dizzy just looking at it.

I don't understand why someone would ruin a functional hat like yours by bending it up so it won't shade his ears. If I wanted a sunburn I wouldn't waste money on a hat.

[Delmonico]

Been goin' on a long time, often even the working ones have a whole different look when rodeoin'.

Don't forget about Casey as Ian tells it:



The chaps were purple, the Cadillac was purple.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

HI,

I have found the hat that I wear daily at Sun Body (http://www.sunbody.com/).



Sun Body has very good hats made out of Palm in Guatemala ... from little pork pies to on even bigger then mine called the "EL Humongo" (and it is; more of a Sombero [made me think of Robert Mitchum in THE WONDERFUL COUNTRY]).


TTFN,

[Major 2]

Went to a team roping recently & was surprised to see that most of the hats worn by the competitors were some variation of this rediculous shape.

Kinda retro Flying Nun look 

[Texas Lawdog]

The Sun Body Palm are enexpensive and durable. The infamous "Taco" crease was left out. I am sorta partial to the George Strait crease.

[Delmonico]

The Sun Body Palm are enexpensive and durable. The infamous "Taco" crease was left out. I am sorta partial to the George Strait crease.

A lot of the horse show people are going to a square version of this and a lot of the Hispanics are having me lower their tacos so that people don't think they are horse show people.   

True story a couple of them have told me that.

[Delmonico]

[Delmonico]

BTW if anyone stumbles onto this thread and is offended, do us all a favor:

Suck it up, cowboy up or go out and cry in your Prius.

[Texas Lawdog]

Straw hats are a must in the summertime. I use them to keep my bald head from getting sunburned.