This Vintage EXCELLENT 1950 Stetson TWENTYFIVE “Open Road” was found inside that Older Stetson box! The size is 7-1/4+, read below for explanation. It could easily be stretched to a Perfect 7-3/8 at 23-1/8 inches, it just takes time and patience and any inexpensive Amazon $14 hat stretcher. So rare to find this in such great condition too!
That beautiful Bound Brim edge really stands out on this Open Road. It could easily be shaped into a Wide Brim Fedora or a standard Open Road Cattleman shape. The only shaping that we NO longer do is that Pencil Roll! So take a minute and decide if you like to keep the Open Crown or if you’d like this custom shapes and write to us with what shape you’d like?
You can see that the hat is from the 1950-1952. The size tag (1/4 and NOT 7-1/4), the leather sweatband design and the logo and that thin plastic overlay on the hat liner and the printed STETSON TwentyFive on the leather sweatband. This plastic overlay is the ones that were used after the “Onion-Skin” liner covers.
This was their best and highest quality hat made at that time! Actually made by the original Stetson Hat Company and NOT HATCO! This is an OUTSTANDING hat! That 25 Beaver quality is EXTREMELY Soft and Thick! It’s so easily “Hand Bashed” and the shape you hand bash it will stay in that shape! Nothing like it in today’s market! Even the new “PURE BEAVER” hats cannot compare to these older vintage TwentyFives! The new ones are just to stiff and not pliable like this one!
It’s easily “hand-bashed” and easily steamed into nearly any style you’d like!
This is an outstanding wide (2.9 inches) brim, that’s when it’s shapes as a fedora. As a cattleman Open Crown it’s 2.75 inches, because of the rolled brim.
The color is the vintage Stetson SilverBelly color. The picture of the whole underside is the best representation.