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ok i must be one step above and ape. i wore my fedora outside doing yard work. i sweated through the hat and stained the ribbon is there any way of cleaning the ribbon without the whole hat? it dried and stained the ribbon
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What you have on the ribbon are salt stains from the salt in your sweat. You can take a wet rag or some wet q-tips, and the stuff should rub out.
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Or you could call it distressing, hope Michaelson doesn't see this. :D
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I recall Fedora once mentioning that you can use naphtha to clean salt stains. I'd do a bit more research though before trying this.
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Indiana Croft wrote:Or you could call it distressing, hope Michaelson doesn't see this. :D
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Why! It's discussed here too....I just don't personally recommend it! :lol: At least this is NATURAL distressing, which I DO recommend. :wink:

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HahHaaahaaHahah, yes natural. Ya know sometime I wear my Fedora when it hot and humid just so I can sweat in it. 1) it shrinks the sweat band (for a snugger fit) and 2) natural distressing.

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Hmmmmmm note to self: start sweating in my Wested and Todds. :lol:
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That's why I wear my straw PB fedora in summer, old friend. :lol:

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Yaaaaaaaaaa, gotta get me one of those one day soon. I've been watching a paticular thread on the Camptown straw fedora, sounds like he's coming out with one soon.

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He is. 8)

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the hat looking fithy i like cause it is filthy but those sweat marks i think makes it look bad it looks patchy for lack of a better term. would post pics but in hong kong right now. gonna look for a different one over here. hopefully i can find an akubra or something
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