![]() Our Sundance Kid Custom Handmade Hat is a good illustration of the typical 19th century nondescript everday cowboy hat ![]() It is also fairly easy to reshape the brim of a beaver/beaver blend cowboy hat with just a steam iron and a bit of patience. Not as dressy or showy as a bound edge, this unfinished brim edge was much more common on working hats, cavalry and military hats.Īn unfinished brim allows you to shape and mold it to your taste – or easily change the look in the future.Īn Unfinished Brim is more for an everyday-do-yer-work type Cowboy Hat and likely the more common of the two finishes for a wide brimmed cowboy hat. Decades later the hat companies started pre-creasing the cowboy hats in the most popular styles.Ī bound Brim is more difficult to re-work or re-shape – but can be removed fairly easily. The open crowned hat style was perhaps the most common crown style of the late 19th century and sold in the mail order catalogues of the day like, Sears-Roebuck, and the Hudson Bay Company.Ĭowboys would crease and mold the crown, to add character to their hat, and make it easier to pick up. Most small brimed, or Town hats, have a bound edge. ![]() PLEASE NOTE: NO TWO TRAIL DUST APPLICATIONS ARE THE SAME, AND TRAIL DUST SHOWS BETTER ON LIGHT COLORS THAN DARK.Ĭaptain Call a custom cowboy movie hat from Lonesome Dove (1989) Bound Brimīinding the brim edge with the same Grosgrain ribbon as the hat band, strengthens the edge, making it stiffer and allowing the brim shape to hold better.Ī bound edge finishes the brim off nicely with rich looking detail. Looks authentic and yore friends will swear yer just got off a trail drive, or a hitch in the Horse Cavalry! You can add trail dust during the check out process – or request it when you call your order in. This is a similar process that costume designers apply to hats in the movies and t. Kilgore, Our Sabre River hat has amedium dusting and heavy trail dust looks like our Josey Wales. We’ve got three different degrees of trail dust. Pictured is a dusty Josey Wales– our Josey Wales hat with several years’ worth of trail dust – as if a hard living horse soldier had been wearing it. Many customers have been requesting that we dirty up their new hats to make them look trail worn. Combat patches (to signify a period of service in a war zone) started during the Second World War and continues to this day. Shoulder patches originated in the First World War to identify units, battalions or regiments. Today cav cords can be knotted but it does not signify battle tested. You can see an example on our Josey Wales Hat. The idea caught on and many units took to the practice on both sides. There is a Cavalry legend that credits a non-com during the Civil War with tying knots in his cord to signify he’d been battle tested. The original reason for the acorns at the end of the cavalry cords is believed to have been to keep the cavalry man awake in the saddle, from the gentle drumming as the acorns bounced off the brim. ![]() Infantry wear white, Scarlet is for Artillery Black Chaplains/Staff, Black/Gold Field Officer, Black/Silver Warrant Officer. The most common color, yellow, is worn by all enlisted Cavalry soldiers. ![]() Different colors are used to identify different branches of the service. Guidelines for the use of the Cavalry Cord and colors were first outlined in 1890 in Circular 10, from the U.S. “ Slouch Hats” worn by many Cavalry soldiers since the days of the American Civil War often include a colored cord that slides over the standard satin ribbon and bow hatband, which is referred to as a cord, braid, hobble, wrap, or acorn. Options for your Custom Hat Add a Cavalry Cord $20.00 ![]()
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