Talk:John B. Stetson/Archive 1

Real History
What we have here is a master Hatter who goes prospecting in the wild west. Like Levi Straus he made a garment out of tent material, in this case a hat. We do not know the details on the hat. He prospected for gold for a year after selling that hat, before opening a hat shop in Philadelphia in 1965.

http://www.sutlers.co.uk/acatalog/stet3.jpg

The model that won the west and established a legend, later to be called a cowboy hat, looked pretty much like a flying saucer. Flat brimmed, with a straight sided rounded crown and a simple band.

These hats were sold to just about everyone from over 2800 locations all around the world. When people returned East for whatever reason. If they wanted to look the part of a successful Westerner they came home in a Stetson. This was a visual image of the mystery of the west.

All other high crowned, wide brimmed, western hats, even those made today, owe their essence to J. B. Stetson.

See: Cowboy Hats

-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 17:00, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Engineered to meet the demands as he experienced them himself in the west.

Invention of the cowboy hat
In hot, sunny climates hats evolved to have wide brims, like sombreros. To serve the same function in this country, “ John Stetson invented,” the ten-gallon cowboy hat.

He (Cody), invented the ten-gallon hat, which Stetson company made to his specifications. West of Everything:

Boss of the plains, first real cowboy hat.

A Stetson hat is a popular kind of cowboy hat invented by John B. Stetson.

John B. Invents the Stetson .. The most desirable cowboy hat was the Stetson.

The Stetson hat, named after its inventor, John B. Stetson, is synonymous with the more generic cowboy hat. www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Stetson-Hat.html

The archetypal western hat. Patrick Bousquet's article, "The Hat of the West: John B. and his Stetson," tells the history of the hat, and of its creator, John B. Stetson. Stetson was born in 1830 to a "master hatmaker, Stephen Stetson, of Orange, New Jersey." He invented what is now thought of as the classic Stetson about 1850, "...a large hat with a broad brim for protection from the sun and rain, and it had a high crown." (p. 19) When he went into production with this hat, he christened it "Boss of the Plains." http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/AGDL/stagger.html

The cowboy hat is truly an example of form following function. Invented by John B. Stetson, today’s cowboy hat has remained basically unchanged in construction and design since the first one created in 1865.

The hat achieved instant popularity and was named the “boss of the Plains.” The first real cowboy hat. Stetson went on to build the Carlsbad, easily identified by its main crease down the front.

Until the 1860s, there was no such thing as a cowboy hat. Then John Batterson Stetson invented the Boss of the Plains. It cost a whole months wages.

Stetson made a western hat for each hat dealer in the Boss of the Plains style he had invented during the trek to Pike’s Peak. These lightweight hats were natural in color with four-inch crowns and brims; a plain strap was used for the band.

-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 08:30, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Adding John B. Stetson's actual face in the article
hello guys! i dont wanna sound rude, but there is a wrong picture in John B. Stetson's infobox (top right side of the article, as seen in PREVIOUS edits). it clearly displays William F. Cody(AKA Buffalo Bill), wearing a Stetson hat. but thats not Stetson himself. in my humble opinion, i think that we should add a photo of John B. Stetson himself in the infobox, instead of having William Cody's photo in there... (also, the pic of William Cody has this filename/title: Stetson_in_hat. perhaps that's why this mistake has happened?)

anyway, i changed Buffalo Bill's picture with the REAL picture of John B. Stetson, and i placed Buffalo Bill's photo into a lower part of the article, thus improving the visual quality of the article, and giving a proper depiction of John B. Stetson, a true legend of the west, that created the iconic 'cowboy hat'.

note that the portrait that i added in the article, is John B. Stetson's portrait, created in 1895, by Benoni Irwin. it certainly bears a good resemblance of the actual person, as it can be seen by this photo of J.B.Stetson here: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zu1D1gyJcjo/VmlKH3sescI/AAAAAAAAYeo/aJNEzFMVBAw/s1600/John_Batterson_Stetson_Cabinet_Card.png

also the portrait artist can be confirmed, in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoni_Irwin

i hope that my edit was helpful+beneficial. please be civilized. BB10clock (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2017 (UTC)