Sweat stains on the fedora
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Sweat stains on the fedora
My first Indy hat was a Miller. I wore it all over the place last summer and my head would sweat into the hat. After awhile, a whitish stain from, I imagine, the salt of my sweat appeared on the front of the hat on the ribbon. I tried cleaning it, but there is still a small stain there.
With my newer Keppler, I cut up a white cotton rag into a piece about 1 inch by 8 inches and put it between the liner and the sweatband in the front of the hat. So far, no sweat stain has appeared as the rag is soaking up the sweat.
Any other ways to avoid the sweat stain??
Thanks, Kaleponi Craig
With my newer Keppler, I cut up a white cotton rag into a piece about 1 inch by 8 inches and put it between the liner and the sweatband in the front of the hat. So far, no sweat stain has appeared as the rag is soaking up the sweat.
Any other ways to avoid the sweat stain??
Thanks, Kaleponi Craig
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You're doing about the only thing I can think of to avoid the marks. Hat makers USED to sell and/or supply those inserts made of cotton for just this problem, so you're not that far off the mark. What most have discovered is, though, that this is just one of those things that occur, and necessitate the need to occasionally send your hat off to a hat shop for an annual cleaning and reblocking. Refreshes the hat, extends it's life, and removes those stains. Regards. Michaelson
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The old time hatters used gasoline to get the stains out. White gas. In fact, all hats were cleaned in gas back in the day. Perhaps that is where the term "hot head" came from. The customer rushed the hatter up, received a not quite so dry hat, and immediately lit up a cigarette. The original Richard Pryor stunt. Running down the street with the head ablaze. Fedora
Back in the days, some sweatbands had a thin thin thin layer of plastic sewn behind the leather. There's a name for it... onion ring or something like that, but I can't remember. Those seperated the sweat from the felt. Good thing, if you ask me, but they've become pretty rare nowadays.
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Marc
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I have a wool, eight-panel newsboy cap that I bought in 1981 that had that thin layer of plastic...but it was behind a grosgrain band, not leather. I just had the sweatband replaced for comfort's sake.Marc wrote:Back in the days, some sweatbands had a thin thin thin layer of plastic sewn behind the leather.
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I think they call it onion skin now.Marc wrote:Back in the days, some sweatbands had a thin thin thin layer of plastic sewn behind the leather. There's a name for it... onion ring or something like that, but I can't remember. Those seperated the sweat from the felt. Good thing, if you ask me, but they've become pretty rare nowadays.
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Marc
Very simple preventative. Take a $20 bill (or any other denomination you like), fold it lengthwise and insert it under the front of your sweatband. This should help absorb sweat and you will always have a twenty in case you lose your wallet or fall on hard times. If you don't want it to show from the inside then fold it in threes rather than in half. This should not take up enough space for you to notice in the fit but if your hat is a bit too large you could put them all around!
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Shiva, big advice to you. <Shhhhhhh> Don't let Jess or Michaelson look at your hat if you ever show up at any of the Queen Mary summits. They may show great interest in your liner and sweatband and quickly run off to the coffee shop yelling - "Coffee is on me boys!". )Shiva wrote:Very simple preventative. Take a $20 bill (or any other denomination you like), fold it lengthwise and insert it under the front of your sweatband. This should help absorb sweat and you will always have a twenty in case you lose your wallet or fall on hard times. If you don't want it to show from the inside then fold it in threes rather than in half. This should not take up enough space for you to notice in the fit but if your hat is a bit too large you could put them all around!
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Right. Onion rings make different kinds of stains.SHARPETOYS wrote:I think they call it onion skin now.Marc wrote:There's a name for it... onion ring or something like that, but I can't remember.
Ooh...I don't know. Indy-On-A Budget will be using either a $1 bill, or a reasonable paper facsimile thereof...Shiva wrote:Very simple preventative. Take a $20 bill (or any other denomination you like), fold it lengthwise and insert it under the front of your sweatband.
...can I borrow your hat? (EDIT: I was in such a hurry to ask to borrow it, I didn't even see Michaelson and Bink in line in front of me. Sigh...the early bird gets the coffee money!)
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