Texans were inclined to wear the "ten Gallon" model. Stetson embraced the fedora in the 1940s and 1950s. Frank Sinatra wore a Stetson, for crying out loud. The hat as a nearly-required bit of male ...

that Hero of Haberdashery, Champ of Chapeaux, el Senor de Sombreros and Fliest of Fedoras — my hat ... the Ultrafino Panama or the genuine Stetson, the latter a prized present from world ...