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Flying With Cowboy Hat
October 28, 2024, 11:15 AM
KyjondeereFlying With Cowboy Hat
I’m on a work trip to Fort Worth and would like to get a custom shaped felt hat. I’m a little concerned about getting home with it on a plane. Do any of you fly with hats and how? Put it on your lap? Hat tin? Thanks.
October 28, 2024, 11:19 AM
jhe888Wear it?
But you might want one of those hard plastic hat box/cases if you get a nicer hat anyway. Even the cardboard hat box it comes with will fit in the overhead.
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PASigShip it home, things are too cramped and crowded nowadays on flights with everyone trying to cram everything in as carry on now.
October 28, 2024, 11:33 AM
YooperSigsI flew to Oregon and back with an Outback style hat. Different in size, maybe, from your hat. No issues.
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October 28, 2024, 11:38 AM
ibandaCheck out Peter Brothers Hats downtown. Store has been around more than 100 years.
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October 28, 2024, 11:39 AM
P250UA5quote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
Wear it?
But you might want one of those hard plastic hat box/cases if you get a nicer hat anyway. Even the cardboard hat box it comes with will fit in the overhead.
Those would be my 2 thoughts as well. Wear/hold it, or in the box in the overhead.
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BeancookerIf you’re in Fort Worth, I highly recommend Jobe’s Hat Shop. If Conor Cooley is there and can shape it, that would be my strongest recommendation. Conor was the in-house hat shaper for American Hat Company for ten years. To call him a pro, is a huge understatement.
I fly with my hat every time I travel. All my hats are 4.25 brims and 5” crowns ( or larger), so they’re not small.
I wear it until seated. It then sits in my lap crown down and resting on the brim.
If I have a window seat I can stick the brim between the seat and wall and the crown rests sideways on the armrest against the wall.
This works for me, but I’m not a big guy, I’m 5’10” and 165 lbs. if I was bigger, I could see this being quite uncomfortable.
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October 28, 2024, 12:03 PM
AglifterI wear mine. The permanent hat boxes are too small to fit mine.
The cardboard ones do work for shipping one, which doesn’t have sentimental value, yet.
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October 28, 2024, 12:12 PM
Kyjondeerequote:
Originally posted by Beancooker:
If you’re in Fort Worth, I highly recommend Jobe’s Hat Shop. If Conor Cooley is there and can shape it, that would be my strongest recommendation. Conor was the in-house hat shaper for American Hat Company for ten years. To call him a pro, is a huge understatement.
I fly with my hat every time I travel. All my hats are 4.25 brims and 5” crowns ( or larger), so they’re not small.
I wear it until seated. It then sits in my lap crown down and resting on the brim.
If I have a window seat I can stick the brim between the seat and wall and the crown rests sideways on the armrest against the wall.
This works for me, but I’m not a big guy, I’m 5’10” and 165 lbs. if I was bigger, I could see this being quite uncomfortable.
Good to know, thanks! Jobes is my destination!
October 28, 2024, 07:45 PM
TMatsNot easy. I won’t wear it on the plane because I feel it’s intrusive on the passenger seated behind me. Most of the time, on its crown under the seat in front of me.
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October 28, 2024, 08:28 PM
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scratchyI have some very cool panama hats. I wear them onto the plane, then store under the seat like TMats. If the flight is not crowded, I'll put it in the overhead. A hatbox is a great investment.
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