-By Warner Todd Huston
Yeah, I usually don’t add items of a personal nature here on the blog (sticking with the issues, if you will), but I just had to share my new fedora with ya’all.
It is a Stetson, Open Road-style in the famous silverbelly color. It was made perhaps between 1970 and 1980 sometime, so it isn’t that old as fedoras go.
This one started out as a western hat. It was stained and pretty mistreated. Here is what it looked like when I bought it…
I re-creased the crown to un-westernize it (if that be a word) and it looked like this…
Then I took it down to the South Side of Chicago to one of the best haberdashers in the world, Optimo Hat Company, and had them add a few things to her, as seen above and…
I am very pleased with the final product.
For those interested in fine fedoras, Optimo was featured on Chicago’s Channel 7 News just this week. See it HERE.
____________
“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
–Samuel Johnson
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
For a full bio, please CLICK HERE.