Here, in a town known for its rodeo culture, men size each other up by the quality of their cowboy hats. But good quality beaver and rabbit furs — which are used to make felt for the hats ...

The inventor of the cowboy hat is planning to expand into home, spirits and other categories to mine its heritage in the ...

Stetson cowboy hats are an iconic American accessory. The popular Skyline style will cost you $245, while other premium varieties can set you back $5,000. Over the years, famous figures like ...

Stetson cowboy hats and Texas go together ... Johnson wore a Stetson “Open Road” hat while in Congress and ultimately, the White House. The fur felt model with a four-inch cattleman crown ...

When legendary Western hatter John B. Stetson invented ... a tourist by the hat they wear,” Boone says. “A tourist would wear a felt cowboy hat, but real cowboys wear beaver fur hats because ...

Q: I’ve been wearing a Stetson Open Road hat for at least ... The reason is that the Open Road, and felt Western hats in general, seem to have suddenly become exceedingly popular.

The factory produces around 1,500 hats per day, ranging from fedoras and Panama hats to cowboy hats and ... the relocation in 2004. Stetson creates close to 1,000 unshaped hat shells a day at a nearby ...

Inside the Stetson factory in Texas, where the magic happens. Stetson has been crafting cowboy hats for over a century, and each year, they produce more than half a million hats. But the process ...

A worker uses a machine to trim the brim of a Stetson brand cowboy hat during production ... 200 workers and makes roughly one million felt and straw hats every year. "John B.