| Technically speaking, all Stetson Company hats | | | | of Labor day. You might just be branded as a |
| can be branded as a Stetson. However, American | | | | fashion flop if you do so.Okay you got your hat |
| popular culture has created for us the image of a | | | | and you know how to wear one, but still, it's not |
| Stetson hat as the classic cowboy hat. Cowboy | | | | enough to project a cowboy image. Cowboys |
| hats are distinguished as having wide brims and | | | | follow certain etiquette when wearing hats, and |
| high, distinctly-shaped crowns. Straw, fur, and | | | | you would do yourself a good deed to do as they |
| wool felt are the common materials used for | | | | do. Cowboy hats are not worn indoors except in |
| making these hats. Straw, aside from being | | | | public places that are enclosed and large (malls, |
| cheaper, is the best hat for during hot weather. | | | | square dance halls). Like all other hats, take it off |
| However, age and long wear might cause it to | | | | when seated at a table, especially during meals. |
| become brittle. For durability, fur felt hats of | | | | Wearing it while dining gives the impolite |
| either beaver or rabbit are best though more | | | | impression that you're in a hurry to finish eating |
| expensive. If you think that you can put on any | | | | and leave. A big no is wearing it inside Churches. If |
| cowboy hat and it will do, you might be surprised | | | | you feel like wearing it in a church, by all means |
| that there are fashion do's and dont's when it | | | | attend service at a Cowboy Church.Cowboys pay |
| comes to wearing one.Banish the thought that real | | | | respect to ladies. Doff your hat to passing ladies |
| cowboys only wear one hat. Real cowboys have | | | | by way of greeting and respect. Don't exclude |
| several cowboy hats and other than function, | | | | men in uniform either. Church officials are also |
| they have other reasons. First, straw and hats of | | | | rendered the same courtesy. To do this properly, |
| light color are fashionable and must be worn only | | | | bow your head slightly at an angle and hold your |
| in the summer or dry seasons. This is because | | | | hat by its crown. Lift it slightly as if taking it off, |
| they are airy, breathable, and as your science | | | | pause, and place it back. During services that |
| teacher always says, light colors absorb less heat. | | | | require standing for a period of time (flag |
| Second, the season for dark colored and felt hat | | | | ceremonies, mass) hold your hat by its crown at |
| is during the colder months. Aside from protecting | | | | chest level as if in a semi-hug. Now that you've |
| the head against the bitter weather, these hats | | | | learned your hat basics and etiquette, brush your |
| also absorb more heat, thereby keeping the | | | | cowboy hats and head out. The town needs you |
| cowboy warm. Though no clear reason is given | | | | partner. |
| why, white hats are no-no after the celebration | | | | |