Cowboy Hats from The Last Best West
The Last Best Cowboy Hat – hand made quality hats. Our custom western hats are made the old west way – one at a time, starting with the best fur-felt hat body available – made in the USA – and fashion as fine a custom western hat as you can find.
ABOUT OUR BEAVER FUR-FELT HAT BODIES
Beaver Fur Felt is dense and virtually waterproof. It consists of beaver and/or rabbit/hare fur blended with felt to produce a material that lasts 5-10 times longer than wool-felt. A fine Beaver and Beaver blend fur-felt hat can be re- shaped numerous times, with just a steam source and a bit of patience. And is the premier material from which to manufacture fine hats.
As a general rule of thumb if a hat maker only describes their hat bodies as fur-felt, chances are it’s rabbit or Hare. Hat makers who use beaver fur-felt are proud of it and will state so. We sell 3 quality beaver blends of fine western hats – 5X, 20X and 100X. 5X is a blend of about 5% beaver with rabbit and felt. Our 20X is 50% beaver and our 100X is pure 100% beaver fur-felt.
GENERAL PRICING
– 5X – 335.00 5% BEAVER HAT BODY
– 20X – 460.00 50% BEAVER HAT BODY
– 100X – 750.00 100% BEAVER HAT BODY
– Prices for individual hat styles will vary
For an all weather hat – you can’t beat a pure beaver cowboy hat. Light, stiff, and fabulous looking it’ll shed what ever comes it’s way.
The Last Best Cowboy Hat. One of a kind Fur-Felt Art.
Made to order. Made to last. Made in America.
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Gift Card / Gift Certificate - You are purchasing a Gift Card for yourself, or to send to someone else. You can choose to send the Gift Certificate now, or on a certain date, during the checkout process. NOTE: If you want to send a gift to multiple people, just choose the amount and adjust the quantity accordingly. You will have the opportunity to enter the recipient names, email addresses and the date to send when you are checking out.
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Out of stockClassic cowboy hat accessory from the last best west™ Windstring Stampede String made of Heavy Latigo lace {brown or black} includes this oak, custom stained slider. You can choose either Black, Deadwood Brown or Old Oak for your color. We send along easy to follow installation instructions with the windstring, which you can do yourself, or take to your corner shoe repair to put in.
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Solid Wood Hat Stretcher & Size Retainer
Our solid wood hat stretcher is hand crafted and made in the USA.FOR SIZES 6 7/8 TO 8
We recommend all customers who OWN a good hat, get a hat stretcher. If you have a tight hat this little tool is just the thing to stretch your tight hat to fit. It is a small cost for a tool that will keep ALL your hats fitting properly. As well, if you only wear your hat seldom; or have a number of hats you wear, you will find our wooden hat stretcher a valuable addition to maintaining the perfect shape and fit of your custom cowboy hat for long term storage or display.-
- The hat stretcher and retainer works on hat sizes 6 7/8 - 8
- The hat stretcher is designed for Long Oval hats.
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Out of stockThis wood hat stand is an elegant and practical display solution for hats! Solid Wood Hat Stand - The Wooden Hat Stand is made from new, unfinished wood, glued and screwed together and comes fully assembled. Leave it as is or the wooden stand is ready to be stained or painted to suit your taste. In one of the pictures you will notice our hat retainer inside the hat on the stand. Using the retainer will keep the hat size and shape perfectly with no stress placed on the crown or brim, and now your hat is ready for long term display on our classic wooden hat stand.
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- Height: 13 1/2"
- Base: 5 1/4" square -1 1/2" thick
- Top: 4 3/4"
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Out of stockSolid Wood Hat Stand PLUS Hat Stretcher -Two great items that fit perfectly together a Solid Wood Hat Stand and a Solid Wood Hat Stretcher & Size retainer to keep your hat in that perfect fit and size. The two pieces are designed to fit together so once your hat stretcher is inside the hat it fits on top of the stand for long term storage or display.
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- Hat Stand
- Solid Wood
- Height: 13 1/2" inches
- Base: 5 1/4" square -1 1/2" thick
- Top: 4 3/4"
- Hat Stretcher/Retainer
- Works on any hat
- Works on hat sizes 6 7/8 to 8
- Long Oval head shape
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Sale!Afternoon Tea Ready to Ship Hat - Ladies in 5X Raspberry, Size 7 1/8 Our Afternoon Tea ladies sun hat and is bound to attract attention! Whether you are out in your garden, or sitting on the patio, our Afternoon Tea hat is perfect for a summer afternoon (or to brighten the gloomiest of winter nights)! Final sale. 5X (5%) beaver fur felt Color: RASPBERRY with a white1.5″ ribbon and bow. CROWN: 4 1/2" open BRIM: 3 1/2″ inches SIZE: 7 1/8 THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in new condition.
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Rigby Reardon Ready to Ship Fedora
Rigby Reardon Ready to Ship Fedora – our version of the hat from Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. {1982} Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid may be the cleverest movie in the history of film. This was the first film that cut in classic film scenes and legendary film stars into the plot and dialogue of the story. Final sale. More fedorasSOLD
- Brim 2 3/4″ inches
- Crown 5"
- Hatband: 2″ Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: Snap Brim, hand shaped Open
- Color: Black in 5X Beaver Fur felt
- Size 7 3/8
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Big Heat Handmade Fedora Hat - our take on Glenn Ford's fedora from The Big Heat. {1953} The Big Heat features great fedoras in almost every scene, and this is our take on the Dave Bannion hat.
- Crown: 5" inches
- Brim 2 3/4"
- Hatband: 2" Black grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: Hand shaped snap brim, with front dip. Bound
- Color: Granite
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Hatband not sold separately
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A custom cowboy movie hat from Lonesome Dove (1989) Our take on the hat style worn by Tommy Lee Jones The Tommy Lee Jones cowboy hat from Lonesome Dove. The Captain Call Handmade Hat is like the character simple, unrefined, and basic. A classic Boss of the Plains with a heavy dip front and back on the bound brim.
- Crown: 6 inches
- Brim: 4"
- Crown: Open - uncreased
- Brim: Bound Hand shaped dipped front and back.
- Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon with bow
- Color shown: Black in 20X fur-felt
- hats ship in 6-8 weeks.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Hatband not sold separately
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augustus custom handmade hat style from the classic mini-series, Lonesome Dove (1989) Loveable old Ranger Augustus McCrae is the scalawag that keeps the Hat Creek Cattle Company loose and is a great counter balance to the salty Woodrow Call. This style of old west crown with it's 3 pinch cavalry creasing was first called the "Tom Mix" after the early movie star, and then became known as "The Gus" crease because of Lonesome Dove. This is a great look for both men and women!
- CROWN: 6 inches
- BRIM: 4"
- Crown: Modified 3 pinch cavalry
- Brim: Hand worked and rolled
- Hatband: Custom 1/2" leather twist
- Color shown: Sand
- hats ship in 12-14 weeks
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Cimarron Custom Movie Hat - Our version of the Yancey Cravat hat from the 1931 best picture winner. This is a very versatile hat style. The crown is a modified tycoon with a big kettle curl and roll to the brim. Musicians seem to favor our Cimarron Custom Movie Hat, and it looks great with a good suit of clothes. Performers hat, Dress Hat, or wear it on the range and impress the critters. What more do you need in a hat!
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches Modified Tycoon
- Brim: 3 1/2" Kettle Curl, hand rolled
- Color Shown: bone
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Musician Favorite
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Fort Apache Cavalry Hat - Shown with optional Heavy Trail Dust We took our Rossiter crown, and put a pushed up cavalry brim on it. Added heavy trail dust, a "bullet hole" through the pinch in the crown, and a slight nick in the right side of the brim from a knife fight. A real "tricked out" character hat! You will find hats similar to this in any of the 3 classic westerns from John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, or Rio Grande.
- Crown: 4 1/2 inches Modified Cavalry
- Brim 4" hand shaped with pushed up front - Open
- Color Shown: Sand with optional Heavy Trail Dust
- Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon with optional Horsehair Hatband #1 and windstring.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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The Fred Dobbs classic fedora - our version of the classic fedora from the Bogart film, - Treasure of the Sierra Madre. (1948) One of our all time favorite films this hat is a new version of the ratty top that Bogart sports as the living-on-the-edge adventurer, Fred C. Dobbs. A classic movie fedora from the last best west shown here in our rich charcoal color.
- CROWN: 5 inches
- BRIM: 2 3/4 inches
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: Snap Brim, hand shaped
- Color shown: Charcoal
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Musician Favorite
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Rigby Reardon Fedora - our version of the hat from Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. {1982} Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid may be the cleverest movie in the history of film. This was the first film that cut in classic film scenes and legendary film stars into the plot and dialogue of the story.
- Crown: 5"
- Brim 2 3/4" inches
- Hatband: 2" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: Snap Brim, hand shaped Open
- Color: Black
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Frenchy Custom Fedora. Our take on Paul Henreid’s, Victor Laszlo fedora from Casablanca. (1942) The movie was put into wide release on January 23 1943, and at the Academy Awards of 1944, won 3 Oscars, including Best Film, Director, and Screen Play. Casablanca is perhaps the greatest example of film noir and the use of lighting and shadow is compelling. The scenes are brilliantly staged, and the dialogue is second to none.
- Crown: 5 inches
- Brim 2 3/4"
- Hatband: Black 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: hand shaped snap brim with black Bound edge
- Color: Sand
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Musician Favorite
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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
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Our take on the Indiana Jones adventure hat (fedora) from the Indiana Jones movie.
A classic fedora crown with a rakish curve to the brim brought this old hat back into public favor with the enormously popular Indiana Jones movies. Harrison Ford established himself as one of the top leading men in Hollywood with his portrayal of Archaeologist turned Treasure Hunter, Indiana Jones in 1981. We have modified the look of our Indiana Jones Adventure Hat by doing a 3 1/2" inch brim for better weather protection. If you wish the 2 3/4" inch brim (like the movie hat) just request it in the production notes as you put your hat order together below.- Crown: 4 inches
- Brim 3 1/2" inches
- Hatband: 1" Satin ribbon w/bow OR leather
- Crown: Fedora Pinch
- Brim: Hand Rolled Open
- Color Shown: Pecan
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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
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Pork Pie Custom Town Hat - Naturally enough this style of hat got its name from its resemblance to a pork pie.These small brimmed hats were first seen in the mid 1800s and were a popular British town style hat. In America they were worn by many soldiers during the American Civil War, and sailors still refer to their white caps as Pork Pies.
- Hatband: 2" Satin ribbon with Bow
- Crown: Telescope
- Brim: Pencil rolled Bound
- Color: Black
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Musician Favorite
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Pinkerton Custom Town Hat hand made by the last best west During the Victorian Era {1837-1901} this short top hat was one of the more common hat styles worn throughout the English speaking world. We have made the Pinkerton Custom Town Hat with everything from a 3 1/4" crown (musician) to a full 6 inch top hat. If you have specific crown and brim measurements, just enter them in the PRODUCTION NOTES below, as you build your hat order. This style also looks dynamite on women, and as a STEAM PUNK hat!
- Crown: 4" inches Texas Straight
- Brim: 2 3/4" Hand Shaped Bound
- Hatband: 1 1/2" satin with bow.
- Color: Black
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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The General Town Hat - Short Crown, small brim this design goes back to the mid to late 1800s – and was a favorite hat style during the American Civil War. Striking looking hat, it looks extremely good on women.
- CROWN HEIGHT: 3 1/2"
- BRIM: 2 1/2
- Hatband:1 1/2" chocolate brown satin ribbon and bow with matching bound edge.
- Crown:Texas Straight
- Brim:Hand Shaped Bound
- Color shown: Sahara in 20X beaver fur felt
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Tall in the Saddle Hat - One of the most distinctive of the dozens of variations of the traditional Cattleman’s crease this beauty will have you sitting tall in the saddle everywhere you go. The sleek and elegant shape of this Custom high crown cowboy hat will look good in the boardroom – or on the range.
- Crown:Modified Cattleman Crease
- Color:Silver Belly
- Brim: Hand Curled and Open
- Hatband:1/2″ satin cavalry tie off.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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
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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
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Lady Custom Movie Hat - our take on the Sharon Stone hat from The Quick and the Dead (1995) Hat has a variation of a cattleman’s crease, with a gentle hand roll to the brim. Version shown has a 1/4" satin ribbon and bow, tied off Cavalry style. You can add a horsehair hatband at checkout for that extra special look! Select your options easily as you build your hat below.
- CROWN HEIGHT: 5" inches
- BRIM: 4"
- Crown:Modified Cattleman
- Color:Black
- Brim:hand rolled –Open
- Hatband: 1/4" satin ribbon/cavalry tied on left.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Boss of the Town Hat - The original Cowboy Hat from 1865 Our Boss of the Town Hat with an open or rounded crown is similar to the one worn by Wyatt Earp in 1993s excellent western film, Tombstone. The Texas flat crown version is more of a gaucho, or South American look. We will shape it either of these ways, enter your choice below as you select your hat details and options.
- CROWN: 4" inches
- BRIM: 4" inches
- Available in all colors
- Hatband: 1" inch grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Open OR Texas Flat
- Brim: Flat with bound edge, or pencil rolled
- Colors Shown: Black, Pecan
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Have Gun Will Travel Dress Hat - Our version of Paladin’s Carleton Hotel Town Hat. From the TV series (1957-1963) hand made by the last best west In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Have Gun Will Travel, was one of the most watched TV shows of the early decades of television. Richard Boone portrayed the character Paladin convincingly to millions of viewers and the hats were great.
- CROWN: 4 3/8" inches Texas Flat
- BRIM: 3 1/4″ inches Hand rolled with a kettle curl
- COLOR SHOWN: BONE
- HATBAND: Matching 1 1/2″ inch grosgrain ribbon
- Musician Favorite
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Butch Cassidy Handmade Bowler - Our Butch Cassidy Bowler is an example of likely the most common headware in the mid to late 1800s in North America. A hat style like our Butch Cassidy Handmade Bowler was worn by all classes of people from butchers in New York to politicians in Washington along with the western Outlaw, Butch Cassidy in Wyoming and later, Bolivia.
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches OPEN: Round Uncreased
- Brim: 2 1/4" inches Kettle Curl Bound
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow
- Color shown: Black
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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
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Our take on the Virgil Cole Movie Hat - from Appaloosa {2008} Our Virgil Cole Hat is the cowboy hat worn by Ed Harris in 2008s excellent Western Film, Appaloosa. This is also the hat with only minor changes (a front pinch to the crown and a bit more roll to the brim) that Mr. Harris wears as The Man in Black, in HBOs new western hit, Westworld. It's almost like the character is patterned after a mean and vicious Virgil Cole. If you would like The Man in Black version, add the request to the PRODUCTION NOTES. The style is a an adjusted version of a basic Boss of the Plains style cowboy hat. Add a homburg dent to the crown and give a nice dip to the front of the brim and there she be. Pretty close to a Fort Bragg version of the US Cavalry Hat from the 1870s.
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches Modified Homburg dent
- Brim: 4"' inches Hand worked-bound
- Color Shown: Black
- Hatband: 1" Satin with bow
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Our take on the Pale Preacher Movie Hat - from Pale Rider (1985) A variation of the timeless Boss of the Plains design which was the first "Western Sombrero" made for the general public in 1865. Immortalized by The Preacher from that great western from Clint Eastwood, Pale Rider.
- CROWN HEIGHT: 4 1/2"
- BRIM: 3 1/2"
- Color Shown: Black
- Crown: Texas Flat
- Brim: Hand worked-bound
- Hatband: 1" Satin ribbon with bow
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Our take on the Decker Movie Hat - from Legends of the Fall (1994) Perhaps the most distinctive of all the hats in Legends of the Fall, this tall crowned wide brimed hat has a tight 3 pinch cavalry or Gus creasing to the crown, and a hand shaped brim.
We're showing this hat in frontier (long-haired) beaver fur-felt, but can just as easily be done in our standard. If you prefer the Decker in our standard fur felt, just ask for it in the production notes below.
- Crown: 6 inches
- Brim 4"
- Color Shown: Chocolate; in frontier fur felt.
- Crown: 3 pinch cavalry or Gus crease
- Brim: Hand Curl-open
- Hatband: 1/2" grosgrain ribbon with 1898 bow
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Our version of the Alfred Legends of the Fall Hat - the Aidan Quinn hat from Legends of the Fall (1994) This crown shape is the forefather of the Open Road crown shape, and looks good anywhere you might like to wear it, from the Boardroom to the Billiards Hall. Movie hat has an 1898 bow, and if you'd like it on your hat just request it in the PRODUCTION NOTES.
- Color Shown: Chocolate brown
- Crown: Modified Cattleman
- Brim: Hand worked-open
- Hatband: 1" inch Satin with bow
- CROWN HEIGHT: 4 3/4
- BRIM: 3 1/2"
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Our take on the Ike Clanton Movie Hat - from Tombstone {1993} The 4 dent military style crown was a common crown treatment in the old west. This hat with the pushed up front was worn by Stephen Lang as the cowardly drunk, Ike Clanton, in one of Hollywood's all time great western's - Tombstone. You may want to add one of our horse hair hat bands to complete the look.
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches modified 4 soft dent military.
- Brim: 4" inches Hand shaped front pushed up - Bound
- Color Shown: Whiskey
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow
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Our version of the Doc Holliday Cowboy Hat - from Tombstone {1993} Doc's adversary amongst the Cow Boys, of course, was Johnny Ringo. So naturally the Doc Holliday Cowboy Hat is the opposite of Johnny Ringo's. The fedora working to the crown suggests culture and education, and the left turn up on the brim infers a dangerous bent to his personality. Also shown is a 20X sand colored Doc Holliday cowboy hat made for a theatre company in Nashville. Order yours today. Doc Holliday Cowboy Hat
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches
- Brim: 4 inches
- Color Shown: Black with medium trail dust and Bone
- Crown: Fedora top and pinch
- Brim: Hand worked, left side curled higher-Bound
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow