Also I dont know if you can see but there is a little hump where the frunt of the brim starts to turn down.
That same thing is on the Raiders film hat. It comes from the brim flange. We call it a bird's beak, for some reason.
Also, the hat was turned slightly, ala Raiders, and this is causing the brim to be uneven(in curl) in the back. All of that can be worked out, using just a little steam on the back and sides of the brim. When you turn a hat, you get stuff like this, but most folks learn over time, how to make it look right, that is, the back to become more relaxed from the curl the flange put into the brim.
If yiou steam the brim, do it from the top side, and not the bottom. That is, keep steam OUT of the insiide of the hat.
Keep the birds beak though, it is film accurate. But it too ,with time and wear, relax and become straighter.
Being a new hat wearer, you are nervous about tweaking. And you are not alone. Many of us went through that. Play with the brim, and have fun doing it. You won't hurt the hat.
Sure looks better than the way it looked when you sent it back to me last week.
The box was crushed enroute to Caleb, and he did not know how to punch it out to open crown and recrease it, so he sent it back. He also wanted gray ribbon instead of the stock black. I had to use my personal vintage stock iron colored ribbon on it, as this was as close as I had to gray(his preference)
Looks like reinforcing the box got it there in much better shape, the second time around!
Once you learn those creasing skills, you will become an old hand at at. And learn you will. The time will come when something happens to the hat, and you will have to recrease it. Especially on this older soft HJ felt. (although I did add just a tiny bit of stiffener to the crown upon its return since I knew you were a newbie with hats. But the brim has stiffener already in it, so steam will help there. The turn does funny things to the brim, like your rear of the hat shots show. This is normal. The curl just needs to be relaxed, which will actually happen with wear, and handling the brim. Or you can speed it up using steam and your fingers to work it out.
Don't be intimidated, just don't steam the crown very much, which you should not have to do anyways, due to the softeness of this felt. Best of luck! Fedora
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