7 3/8 Archives - The Last Best West

Stumpy Custom Handmade Hat

$380.00 – $810.00

Stumpy Custom Handmade Hat - You see lot's of these open crown style cowboy hats from the early days of film right through the modern era. Variations of this hat design were worn by Walter Brennan as Stumpy in Rio Bravo {1959}, as well as Dan Blocker as Hoss on the long running TV series; Bonanza. A unique looking hat nowadays, but a century or more ago it was a very common hat style, being just an oversized cousin of the classic Boss of the Plains.

Crown: Open
Color: Granite
Brim: 1" kettle-curl - Bound
Hatband: 1" Satin with 1898 bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

4 Corners Fedora Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

4 Corners Fedora Hat - Our Cavalry Fedora We decided to put our own twist on a fedora, and imagined what an old west cavalry trooper might like to wear on furlough. Bowlers are certainly one choice, but we imagined something a little different.

Hatband: 2" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
Crown: 4 corner cavalry
Brim: hand shaped Open
Color: Silver Mist
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Drake the Ripper Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

This is our take on the Drake the Ripper Hat - The hat worn by actor Jerome Flynn as Victorian Detective Sergeant, Bennet Drake, in the BBC drama, Ripper Street. It has a long modified cavalry shape to the short crown,with a small pencil roll on the bound brim. This BBC drama hit the screen in 2012 and the BBC drama is set in 1889 London, 6 months after the Jack the Ripper murders.

Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
Crown: modified cavalry
Brim: 1/2 inch pencil roll, hand shaped Bound
Color: Black
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Bronc Buster Custom Hat

$355.00 – $795.00

Bronc Buster Custom Hat - Young horses need to be broke, and that means riding them to a standstill – until they start accepting a man on their back and respond to the reins. It takes a lot longer than 8 seconds to saddle break a young mount, and the cowboy that can do that commands top wages on any spread he wants to work on.

Crown:Modified Cattleman Crease
Color:Black.
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband:3/4″ satin with bow. Blue contrasting bound edge.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Line Rider Custom Hat

$385.00 – $785.00

Line Rider Custom Hat - Cowboys spend weeks sometimes months, in a line shack, riding the periphery during the day, looking for strays and checking fence.

Crown:Fat Dent Cattleman
Color:Dyed Natural
Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband:1/2″ satin with bow. Matching bound edge
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Money Round Custom Hat

$390.00 – $785.00

Money Round Custom Hat - Money Round at a Rodeo is the last day, when all the hard rides and bruises are forgotten as the cowboys vie for the Champion’s buckle and the fat pay envelope.

Crown: Cattleman"s Crease
Color:Bone
Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband:1/2″ cloth with buckle.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Stockman Custom Handmade Hat

$355.00 – $810.00

Stockman Custom Handmade Hat - Always on the lookout for the superstars of the 4 legged set, Stockmen do a lot of traveling in their search for that special bucking horse or bull.

Crown: Modified Gus Crease
Color:Charcoal
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband:1″ satin w/bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Dakota Fancy Custom Hat

$385.00 – $810.00

Dakota Fancy Custom Hat - Custom Rodeo Hat is dressed up with a distinctive Indian motif on the cloth hat band and bound brim edge.

Crown: Cattleman Crease
Color:Black
Brim: Hand Shaped and Bound
Hatband:1″ Cloth with Indian Motif: Matching cloth on bound edge.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Rodeo Royale Custom Hat

$510.00 – $920.00

Rodeo Royale Custom Hat - These hats were made for young ladies competing for Rodeo Queen titles at various rodeo’s around the West. One hat shown is in black with ostrich hide, with bound edge. The other hats shown have hair on hide, buck stitch edge. Choose, ostrich, or light, or dark hair on hide as the feature hide on the brim, during the check out process.

Crown: Cattleman Crease
Color:Black
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 1/2″ leather with buckle.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Jolan Custom Dress Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

Jolan Custom Dress Hat - More of a Town Hat Design, the Jolan has a small brim and was a popular look with people of substance in the West of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Essentially the same design as the Champie and the smaller brim makes it a great look for women.

Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow.
Crown: Creased
Brim: Kettle Curl Bound
Color: Black

Honky Tonk Movie Hat

$380.00 – $770.00

Honky Tonk Movie Hat - This elegant Town Hat or Dress Hat was a good match for legendary actor Clarke Gable. His raised eyebrow glare could make a man stop in his tracks and women swoon! Gable has such an engaging personality he makes most of his movies shine, and Honky Tonk is no exception.

Color Shown: undyed natural (click on tab below to view ALL colors)
Crown: Texas Flat
Brim: 3 1/4" Kettle curled and hand rolled with an open brim edge
Hatband: Chocolate Brown 1 1/2" grosgrain ribbon and bow
Crown Height: 4"
Brim: with Kettle Curl

Wild Wild West Hat

$380.00 – $785.00

Our version of the classic Wild Wild West Cowboy Hat has a Texas Flat crown and a wide 3 3/4" brim. Click on the tabs below to see our hat options and colors.

Color Shown: Sahara
Crown: 4 1/2" inches Texas Flat
Brim: 3 3/4" inches hand shaped and rolled-Open
Hatband: 1" custom leather with buffalo side concho