O.K., so you want to get yourself a cowboy hat.  Here are some guidelines.  Early cowboys spent as much as a month’s pay for their hat.  Today it should not [ … ]

Strong winds tended to create problems for cowboys whether their hats were wide brimmed or narrow brimmed.  Originally the brims of cowboy hats were soft so they would fold back [ … ]

In the history of Western hats it is known that the earliest cowboys were young rejects from Europe who decided to keep traveling west after they reached New York, or [ … ]

More and more within the fashion industry, designers have been embracing the appeal of gothic western fashion, merging two seemingly unlikely genres into an iconic and powerful fashion statement. As [ … ]

Bronco Sue has been making hats for 21 years and has just won True West Magazine’s Best of The West Readers Choice award for Best Western Hat Maker 2017. They [ … ]

Next to his hat, a cowboy’s footwear has traditionally been the most important symbol of his identity. Here are some little known facts about Old West Cowboy Boots in the Victorian [ … ]

    In our previous two-part blog, we delved into the fascinating realm of gothic westernwear and provided guidance to both men and women as to how to create a [ … ]

   “Gunner Foxx is one of the last remaining few ‘true’ Traditional Hatters left in existence by use of the early 19th Century felting methods and Hat Making techniques, handed down in name [ … ]

   In our previous blog, we sought to introduce the concept of gothic western fashion (in particular, with regards to womenswear, to read click HERE). However, we could not consider [ … ]