"Western figures: with or without cowboys hats?" Topic

My preference is for figures WITHOUT cowboys hats. Most current Texas Ranger figures have all sorts of hats, with few "cowboy hats ". So, those are the figures I'm going for now.
Knuckleduster, Gringo40s, Old Glory and so on.

What say you?

Most of my Western figures are Mexican so somberos or bare heads are the rule – for my American Western figs it's about 50:50 but the ones with hats pretty much all have Stetsons

I say all western gunfight collections must include at least one John Wayne figure with Stetson. There are standards to be maintained.

I agree with you John. Without hats. Far more respectable indeed.

The pictures I've seen of Old West townsfolk seemed to have a fair share of bowlers, caps, top hats and even trilbys. The Stetson is iconic but in town, I'm not sure how ubiquitous it was despite being a movie favorite.

There is a YouTube guy the Hat Historian and has one on Cowboy hats. A Boller would actually be more historic that that cowboy hat most think.

I'm trying to get away from the Grand Ole Opry on horseback…

I like some with, some with other type hats and some bare headed so basically a mix.

Disagree- white hats for the good guys and black hats for the bad guys..

Since there isn't an Osprey on the subject(yet):

Stetson is a brand of hat, and not a shape of hat, nor a type of hat, nor a style of hat.

I've got a broad brim straw Stetson with a cattleman's crease that is a classic cowboy hat for summer.

I've got a broad brim felt Stetson with a fedora crease for hiking/fishing that does not look at all like a cowboy hat, but it could, if you gave it a cattleman's crease.

I've got a broad brim felt cowboy hat for winter with a cattleman's crease that is a classic cowboy hat, but it is made by the American Hat Company, not Stetson.

LBJ wore a narrow brim Stetson with a cattleman's crease that looks sort of western, but isn't a cowboy hat.

Now, about that Osprey . . .

Most of my collection was Artizan. A mixture of colors including black, gray, dirty nite and a lot of tans-browns.
I only had a Stetson when I lived in Texas and was assigned to the Cavalry squadron of the First Cavalry Division. At that time the battalions wore light blue if infantry, red for Artillery and engineers and yellow for armor. This was mid-1970s and did not last long. Branch colored baseball caps. As the Cavalry squadron the enlisted wore black berets and officers, aviation section and horse platoon, yes we had a full time platoon of horses. They were used for parades. Lasted about until 1968 when we went to black berets.

All men wore hats until about 1962. The western men must wear some short of hat to keep flies off their hair.

It depends -- white townsfolk have all manner of contemporary hats, stovepipes, bowlers, skimmers, a few slouch hats. But outdoors fellows -- outlaws, cowboys -- definitely all have pretty much "cowboy " hats.