Book Description
This fascinating, detailed book provides a sweeping survey of the hats produced by the company whose name is synonymous with cowboys and the Wild West. Surprisingly, though, the John B. Stetson Company was based in Philadelphia and produced all manner of headwear. Over 500 illustrations display never-before-worn Stetson hats (men's and women's alike), hat boxes, miniature boxes, and a surprisingly large number of collectible items associated with this most famous hat company. Original research charts the development of of the company, and individuals closely related with the firm provide their memories. Hat styles from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth get a review, and for those lucky enough to own one of these valuable collectibles, there are tips on how to wear and care for vintage and modern Stetsons. Values for the hats illustrated, an extensive bibliography, and an index are included.

About the Author
Jeffrey B. Snyder has enjoyed western hats since childhood. He is a writer and editor living in Downingtown, Pennsylvania with his wife Sherry and their two children, Michael and Madeline.

Product Description
Originally published in 1935, this rare millinery book contains 123 pages of instructions and techniques for creating hats. Ten chapters detail: apparatus used in millinery, pattern making, shape making, covering shapes, headlinings, felt hats, straw hats, stitched hats and berets, children's millinery, and ribbon trimmings. In addition, the book contains a supplementary section the authors wrote specific to hat styles of the 1930s. The section includes photographs of sample hat styles and a bit of instruction for each with further reference back to the more detailed instructions in the main text. Wiring the edge of a turn-up brim, moulding a curved brim, blocking a millinery net crown, making a brim and sideband in one piece, ironing a brim into shape, small hats with crossway brims, making tucks in felt hats, and much more are covered in the supplementary section. This book goes into specifics about creating your own patterns from existing hats and customizing for your specifics needs based on details like your hairstyle height and length, brim preferences and current fashion trends. A combination of photos and illustrations guide you along with creating patterns from existing hats but specific patterns are included for a boy's school cap, girl's bonnet, baby boy's hat, girl's bonnet with horse shoe crown, and woman's beret. The book is well illustrated and the text is detailed with step-by-step instructions for creating items, working with millinery techniques and constructing your own hats with that 1930s flare.

Product Description
Originally published in 1944, this vintage millinery book contains instructions and patterns for cutting, pinning, sewing and putting together calots, straw hats, sailors, half hats, pillboxes, off-the-face brims, jocket hats, snoods, dutch bonnets, knitted and crocheted hats. Also included are instructions for making an over-arm bag, crocheted over-the-shoulder bag and collar box. This book is filled with trimming ideas using flowers, veilings, hat pins, ribbons, beads, embroidery and sequins. The contents include: style element in millinery, basic millinery supplies, millinery materials, wool-felt bags, professional details of milllinery, half-hats, trimmings, how to remake and renovate, how to make hat foundations, ready-made frames, frames -- and how to make your own, crochet section.

Originally published in 1915, this rare millinery book contains 96 pages of pattern making, techniques and construction of hats and veils from the Edwardian era. Inside you'll find 41 chapters detailing cutting patterns, making paper patterns from an existing hat, laying out patterns, fixing patterns together, working with velvet, head linings for hats and bonnets, bow making, rosettes, wire shape making, hat shapes in stiff net, straw working, specific stitches used in millinery, craping, making widows veils, linings for hat brims, working with lace, confirmation and bridal veils, making silk flowers, childrens millinery (including taking head measurements, bonnets, materials used for foundations as well as patterns for a baby boy's first hat, girl's first bonnet, child's liberty hat), renovating hats, blending colors, wearing suitable colors, feather curling, materials used for millinery foundations, materials used for trimmings, millinery terms and much, much more. The book is well illustrated and the text is detailed with step-by-step instructions for creating items, working with millinery techniques and constructing your own hats.

David Stoecklein's latest volume in the "Cowboy Gear" series showcases all the different types of Western cowboy hats. For working cowboys and cowgirls, a hat is first and foremost an essential tool for the jobs they do, but it can also be a personal statement of style. These photographs pay a lasting tribute to this vital piece of gear.

Revised to include presidential hats, new celebrity hats, and a fully updated resource listing of custom hatters.
The Cowboy Hat Book features an impressive array of cowboy hats, showcasing the wide variety of styles, colors, and fabrics used to create the cowboy hat, now a symbol of America and western culture that is recognized all over the world. Beginning with a brief history of the cowboy hat, the authors go on to explain the building of the perfect hat, its care and feeding, hat etiquette, hat hair, and more. Beautiful photos of real cowboys and movie cowboys sporting their trademark hats illustrate how creases, brims, shapes, and trims are unique to the individual who wears each hat. The Cowboy Hat Book celebrates the history and importance of this unique piece of clothing that hasn't fundamentally changed in more than 100 years.
Ritch Rand's family has been making handcrafted hats for over twenty years. His hats have rested on dozen's of famous heads-from presidents to kings and heads of state to movie stars. He lives in Billings, Montana.

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