What’s the right way to wear your hat when you are inside your auto??? When I wear mine in the truck it strikes the head rest.Never see anybody on TV wearing a hat take it off inside the cab.

Stetson in an auto? LOL where's the truck? Just kidding.

This might help.

But seriously, you can buy a spring loaded wire hat holder that will hold your hat up and out of the way. There are also simple wire shaped holders that hang from the back side of the headrest, you just slip the hat in to secure it safely while driving.

The State Troopers around here us a spring loaded hat holder that is fastened to by the headliner.

A pic, or a video, is worth a thousand words typed out.

Good luck to you.

Here are two examples:

Check out this link

Here is a video of another type:




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/M3CboEEWEvA

The unmarked state trooper cars usually have the hat over the blue light on the dashboard.

Roof rack

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Originally posted by roarindan:
Never see anybody on TV wearing a hat take it off inside the cab.

That’s because the actors are 3’9” and sitting on a stack of phone books and the cowboy hat is there to make them look bigger. Like Chuck Norris, as Walker, Texas Ranger.

Either the wire hangers suggested, or remove it and place it on the passenger seat or front dashboard. This is what man-sized men do. Munchkin-sized men wear cowboy hats when they drive to not look like munchkins. You know, tall boot heels, huge truck, tall hat... little guy. Sounds like you’re man-sized, embrace it and take your hat off to drive.

Growing up in West Texas, the “etiquette” I was taught by my grandfather, uncle, and my best buddy’s dad was that a man removes his hat when entering a vehicle or a building. It’s to keep the sun and rain off your head, not wearing in the car or indoors. They ranged all over in size. TV has nothing to do with the etiquette. I’ll never forget my friend’s Dad admonishing me for wearing my hat in church the one time: “You’d best bare your head to God when you’re in his house, boy.”

Like OKCGene said, you should be driving a truck with your Stetson...

unless you are driving this auto, and this auto only, complete with longhorns, in which case, nothing will obstruct your hat.




But you may need to hire someone to hold your hat in case the wind tries to remove it.



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Watch closely and you’ll see the headrests are generally out when they shoot the in car scenes.

In Sicario Day of the Soldato when they get in the pickup the rests are our, then back in on the next scene

Can your headrest be adjusted to solve the problem?

One of the reasons that Fedoras and Stetsons fell out of common use: Vehicle headrests.
So I was told by a hat shop, anyway.
I just lay mine on the seat.

Can't help much on the vehicle / hat etiquette, but as far as wearing the hat, Jerry Hill gave me some memorable advice in September 2016 ...

A thumb high above my ear and a finger above my eyebrow. I don’t want to be Deputy Dawg but I don’t want it touching my ear either. And then across the eyebrow? That’s a cowboy thing, a little social thing. No man can see what I’m looking at unless I want him to see my eyes.

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Never see anybody on TV...

Hehehehe, TV not reflecting reality???

Oh the HORROR!!!!

So this will sound odd, but I had a glass mounted one on my old pick up. It used suction cups.

And, I’ve seen ones with are meant to go into the roof...

My Tesla has a glass roof, so I need one which uses suction cups, but is oriented for the roof...

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Originally posted by Woodman:
Can't help much on the vehicle / hat etiquette, but as far as wearing the hat, Jerry Hill gave me some memorable advice in September 2016 ...

A thumb high above my ear and a finger above my eyebrow. I don’t want to be Deputy Dawg but I don’t want it touching my ear either. And then across the eyebrow? That’s a cowboy thing, a little social thing. No man can see what I’m looking at unless I want him to see my eyes.

That would be Jerry from Saba’s. That man has forgotten more about boots and hats, than I will ever know.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
That would be Jerry from Saba’s. That man has forgotten more about boots and hats, than I will ever know.

Yup. Here he is talking about hand-crafted and lemonwood pegs and such:

Used to wear a campaign hat in uniform...we took it off in the patrol car and I jerry rigged a hook wrapped around the passenger seat headrest, so the hat hung behind the right seat.

My FIL wears a Stetson and he has one of those hooks for his hat.

Also the military taught us not to wear a hat indoors unless you were armed. Vehicles too.

your truck, your rules

I raise my headrest the brim tucks nicely under the headrest.

I put mine on the passenger headrest, do the same for ball caps and my hard hat if I am going between sites.
Otherwise I use a bent coat hanger behind the driver headrest.