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Your Guide To The White Cowboy Hat
The white cowboy hat is an icon of North American Western culture and is most closely associated with the cowboys of the old west. Here is a quick overview of the history of this fascinating–and highly symbolic–fashion accessory.
Significance of the White Cowboy Hat
Calgary, Canada has a tradition of placing a white cowboy hat on every visitor that is welcomed to the city by the mayor. (Instead of a key to the city, visitors receive the hat.)
It is a representation of Western hospitality and every mayor of Calgary has offered it to visiting superstars, officials and athletes since the Second World War.
The white cowboy hat is likewise a symbol for the nice in people. The hero in Western films puts on a white hat and the bad fella puts on a black one.
White Cowboy Hat and the PBR
Every year the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) issues a calendar that generally highlights their professional riders sporting white hats. The late Lane Frost really loved wearing a white hat with a turkey feature on it when he rode and his closest friend and fellow bull riding champ, Tuff Tedeman frequently wears a white when riding also.
2009 PBR World Champion Kody Lostroh used the white hat all through most of his rides in his final season win as did two time PBR World Champion Chris Shivers. It is really a favourite bull riding gear accessory for the bull rider because it signifies everything good in a western champion.
Origin of the White Cowboy Hat
Cowboy hats were first made to safeguard ranch workers from the rain and sun while doing work outside. John Batterson Stetson was the son of an American hat maker who was brought up working in the family business.
Right after being diagnosed with tuberculosis during his early age, he left the family business to see the Wild West before he was too sick to travel. He met gold miners, ranch hands and livestock drovers towards his journey and noticed that they were wearing top hats, coonskin caps, derbies and also old military caps to keep the suns heat and rain from their heads.
Making use of his familiarity with hat industry, he created a hat that had a straight-sided crown and a broad flat brim with circular corners. In 1865 he transferred to Philadelphia were he manufactured a hat known as “Boss of the plains” but soon, the ones he sold it to simply called it a Stetson.
It was a significant piece of equipment for the working cowboy. The Stetson was basically a symbol of top quality and many Old West figures wore it. Buffalo Bill, Will Rogers, Tom Mix and also Annie Oakley wore Stetsons, however it was the Lone Ranger who caused the white cowboy hat renowned. He was never without it as he faced the bad guys and he always won.
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