Get a custom hand made cowboy hat at staker custom hats and it will be your favorite hat. You will never want to take it off. You can’t beat the high quality finish and it fits like a glove.    

Staker Custom Hats purchase’s three types of hat bodies I use to make our hats from, most if not all custom hatters use the same hat bodies. Staker Custom Hats makes a 100X ( 100% beaver), 50X ( 50% beaver and 50% European hare) and a 10X ( 100% European Hare.) Ultimately the quality of a […]

The cowboy of the old west had a certain wardrobe that was standard among cowboys. He wore his boots that were to small for his feet. They weren’t for walking because he didn’t do much walking just rode his horse every where. He didn’t wear a starched collared shirt. His shirt was loose fitting and […]

The old western cowboy hat is the Boss of the Plains hat. It is the hat that cowboys in the 1800’s wore. It has an o[pen crown with a flat brim and the only creases were dents that the cowboys put in them by grabbing their hats by the crown. Sometimes the brims were shaped by the […]

There are many stories which recount the wild delight with which the cowboy greeted the appearance of silk hat in a frontier where they and the owner of such hat happened to be sojourning together, and it is literally true that in the earlier days of the frontier such hats were often shot ” full […]

It’s the weekend and time for a little R & R.  Get out there and wear your hat!

The working cowboy needs a cowboy hat that will hold up to the cowboys lifestyle and work load. The cowboy hat has to hold up to the harsh weather and hard work. Cowboys work hard and his cowboy hat needs to hold up. With a custom 100% beaver fur felt hat  it will hold up […]

Today there are many styles of cowboy hats and there aren’t as many working cowboys as there was in the 1800’s. Back in the 1800’s the cowboy didn’t have many choices of different styles. They had the Boss of the Plains hat which had an open crown and a flat brim. The creases were dents and […]

The American Cowboy in the 1800’s had a certain wardrobe that was common among the cowboys. One of the most important item of there wardrobe was there hat. The Cowboy hat was important because it protected them from the weather. In the summer the blazing sun tried to bake and burn them. There were no recorded […]

The word fedora comes from the title of an 1882 play by dramatist Victorian Sardou, Fedora , written for Sarah Bernhart. The play was first performed in the United States in 1889. Bernhardt played Princess Fédora, the heroine of the play. During the play, Bernhardt wore a center creased, soft brimmed hat. The hat was fashionable […]