This is what it looks like.
But, this is what was really going on. (Too much coffee!)
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Well I finally got me a Tilley hat in Olive Green, one of the Airflow styles. I gotta tell ya, the Tilley looks better but it does not handle sweat well at all. After a short time the sweat is actually running off the hat in a steady stream. It is a good looking hat but would not be my choice for hot & humid environs and physical field activity. I actually threw it on the ground today as it was a steady stream of sweat streaming off it.?ÿ?ÿ
I have 2 Columbia Bora Bora boonie hats and they breath better and deal with sweat a lot better.
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Is this where I act like I didnt read the whole of the first post and suggest a straw cowboy hat??!!??
I've got a straw Resistol and bought it in Marble Falls, Texas but I've no clue how you folks that wear them all the time deal with the rivers of sweat. I know you live and work in Texas and depending on where it can be oppressively hot and even more humid so do you wrap a towel around your head?
So do tell, please.
I've got a theory about certain types of hats and that is some are just for looking at while others are for work.?ÿ
I love the bora bora. Just wish it would hold shape a bit better?ÿ
I wear natural unvarnished straw hats that I find at feed stores around the local area and use a bandana as a hatband so it can be easily adjusted thru the year
Have found some nice ones in Atwoods Ranch and Home and Tractor Supply and Newkirks Feed Store
Unvarnished you say, that did not dawn on me but every fella I run into around here who is from Mexico or Ecuador wears those kinds of hats.
Maybe that is the trick with straw hats as my Resistol is varnished and it does not have any absorbing ability and sweat just rolls off in rivers.
Nosir, I don't wrap nothin around my head (Hey, it's raining!?ÿ It hasn't rained here in, oh, almost 5 months!) when I wear a hat out working.?ÿ I only wear cowboy hats, unless I am forced to wear a hardhat.?ÿ I do keep my hair short, unless I forget to get a haircut.?ÿ I also don't sweat quite as much as other folks.?ÿ I dunno why.?ÿ I think growing up in the heat just became a part of my way of doing things.?ÿ It takes me about a year to get a sweat stain showing on a working felt hat.?ÿ Another thing of growing up wearing cowboy hats, I can keep mine on in a wind that makes other guys chase their ballcaps.?ÿ
carry it to the dry cleaners and ask them to starch it how you want it
Some years back one of the Texans on this board posted a photo of the hat he wore in the field. He was a very opinionated fellow and I imagine he put a lot of thought into the practicality of this headgear:
Needless to say, he was disappointed by the reception:
...?ÿNeedless to say, he was disappointed by the reception:
