Very glad you’ve made it through the cancer. I’ve gone through the cancer beat-down myself. Actually the cancer never hurt but the treatment was brutal.
Sage advice, Sir. 20+ years ago I was on holiday in Malaysia, when I got back to my office I was dusting off dead dry skin for 2 weeks, the whole office looked like it was snowing. Since then, always a shirt and sombrero on.
I have had 7 skin cancers removed from my face in the past on one more about to come off next month..Dermatologist kept telling me to wear broad brim hat when going outside and I finally listened...decided on western style....found your channel which created additional problem of me wanting most hats you review....now at 6 Western and four other types and running out of space...keep up the great content!
You and me both are running out of room, Bubba. I visit the dermatologist on Monday to have another skin cancer removal outpatient procedure. Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative. Thank you for watching.
Thanks for this review. I enjoyed this one and many of your others. I actually like this hat. It works for my particular needs. I live at high-elevation--the sun and glare are brutal and "felt-temperatures" are much greater than ambient. Big hats and sunglasses are essential to my daily outdoor activities. The Digger has been a good warm-weather hat and suits my activities and style-preference. It is well ventilated, provides shade, and light rain protection. Style wise, I prefer the flattish outdoor look vs. western or city. My primary cool weather hat is a 100% beaver Resistol manufactured between 1935 & 1944. The original Cattleman's crown & 3 1/4" brim have been modified for my purposes and style preference. This improves shade & moisture run-off. It has lots of character marks. For me, function outweighs form (style). To each his own!
I wore this hat today while on a bourbon hunting trip in Kentucky because there was full fun. It ain't the prettiest hat, and I do look like Panama Jack when it's on, but it'll keep the cottonpickin' sun off of you.
Hey, it keeps the sun off, at that price point you can buy a new one every year. I have a Twister “Jute” straw western hat. Think I paid $30.00. Use it for mowing and have had it 3 years. Love your videos 🤠
I'm a portrait artist and I notice proportion, style and fit (good-character-attributes). The hat looked good on you. Size-wise it fit. I think you could wear it in public without drawing awkward notice, unwanted attention to it.
Not particularly attractive from a fashion sense, but it looks like a good hat for mowing the lawn or working in the garden. If you don't do either of those activities, probably take a pass. Thanks for this video review History Nerd! UPDATE: Great information about your MM surgery. You had a good plastic surgeon. I diagnosed several of my dental patients with MM and basal cell carcinoma. You can't have too many hats!
I have one of these and it is a lil snug, HAD IT for couple years just do not like mine I wear it just because I own it, I too developed a melanoma on my nose fortunately not as extensive as yours and was able to be removed in the dermatologist office and took several weeks of radiation treatment and my dermatologist always comments about my hat when he sees me with it on, prior to that mostly I wore caps but since then I do still wear an occasional hat but everyday you see me wearing a hat these Texas sunny days are to brutal to not I own several straws and several felts and I am proud to wear them, those old cowboys, my grandfather being one, wore them for a reason
The Digger is a less expensive version of the AirWay Panama Hat. they use the same block and flange in production. The crown is a Center Dent with a Pinch. Remember you get what you pay for a $41.00 hat is going to be a $41.00 hat
I’m glad you’re cancer free after the man-thing of ignoring the obvious. This is a wake-up call for anyone who spends a lot of time in the sun. Personally, after a similar scare without a malignant result, I go to the dermatologist every 6 months for “mole patrol”. Take care all.
Yeah, I'm on the six-month schedule with my dermatologist, too. Mine is a woman, and she has no hesitation in yanking down my boxers to check the undercarriage, which has never seen even one ray of sunlight.
I'd return the hat. For all the hats we've seen you wear, this one just doesn't work for you. Thanks for sharing your story. I'm now wearing hats, too.
Yeah, it's the first hat that makes me feel like a doofus when I wear it, but I'll just keep it as a yard hat. Glad you're taking precautions from sun damage, which I assume I should've done when I was much younger.
Not to rain on your parade but I purchased an Akubra, Coober Pedy style Australian digger hat in Perth, Western Australia several years ago. Your straw hat looks like astonishingly like mine. Same brim, same crown and same hatband although mine has a small white opal on it. The wide brim sloped down on all sides is purposely done to keep the Australian sun off your face and neck and are worn by opal miners in the central Australian opal mines in the outback where temperatures soar to and well over 104 degrees F. You should really look up Akubra hats before reviewing Stetson’s Australian style offerings so you have some idea of what you are reviewing. Even at $80 you would have gotten a deal. Mine was about $300 AUS.
My father was born dirt poor two years before the start of the Great Depression, and often said he knew he'd made it in life when he bought his first Stetson hat and his first Lincoln Continental. Though several folks have suggested Akruba hats, I pretty much stick with Stetson hats in honor of my father. Thanks for watching!
Sorry you got a dud of a hat, we look forward to reviews of better hats. Also glad your wife convinced you to go to the doctor, the sun is nothing to mess with. I had to have a hunk of my left temple sliced off but after seeing your pictures you were lucky you didn't wait longer...wow and good luck. .
I actually wore this hat a good bit during a recent vacation to Kentucky. It did a great job of protecting me from the sun as I toured distilleries and thoroughbred horse farms...but my wife kept telling me that I looked like the dude on the old Panama Jack t-shirts when I had it on.
@@historynerdsmancave7567 The hat did it's job, that's the main thing. My wife always seems to have an opinion on what I wear too but not always the same as mine. I thought the hat looked good in the video !
I would certainly review Resistol since they're owned by the same Hatco folks as Stetson, but I cannot find them in the giant 7-3/4 size that my massive head demands...
Very glad you’ve made it through the cancer. I’ve gone through the cancer beat-down myself. Actually the cancer never hurt but the treatment was brutal.
Sage advice, Sir. 20+ years ago I was on holiday in Malaysia, when I got back to my office I was dusting off dead dry skin for 2 weeks, the whole office looked like it was snowing. Since then, always a shirt and sombrero on.
I have had 7 skin cancers removed from my face in the past on one more about to come off next month..Dermatologist kept telling me to wear broad brim hat when going outside and I finally listened...decided on western style....found your channel which created additional problem of me wanting most hats you review....now at 6 Western and four other types and running out of space...keep up the great content!
You and me both are running out of room, Bubba. I visit the dermatologist on Monday to have another skin cancer removal outpatient procedure. Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative. Thank you for watching.
Thats some impressive pictures, glad you're still kicking
Thanks for this review. I enjoyed this one and many of your others.
I actually like this hat. It works for my particular needs. I live at high-elevation--the sun and glare are brutal and "felt-temperatures" are much greater than ambient. Big hats and sunglasses are essential to my daily outdoor activities. The Digger has been a good warm-weather hat and suits my activities and style-preference. It is well ventilated, provides shade, and light rain protection. Style wise, I prefer the flattish outdoor look vs. western or city.
My primary cool weather hat is a 100% beaver Resistol manufactured between 1935 & 1944. The original Cattleman's crown & 3 1/4" brim have been modified for my purposes and style preference. This improves shade & moisture run-off. It has lots of character marks.
For me, function outweighs form (style). To each his own!
I wore this hat today while on a bourbon hunting trip in Kentucky because there was full fun. It ain't the prettiest hat, and I do look like Panama Jack when it's on, but it'll keep the cottonpickin' sun off of you.
History! you did excellent - have a good one, ;))
Hey, it keeps the sun off, at that price point you can buy a new one every year. I have a Twister “Jute” straw western hat. Think I paid $30.00. Use it for mowing and have had it 3 years. Love your videos 🤠
I'm a portrait artist and I notice proportion, style and fit (good-character-attributes). The hat looked good on you. Size-wise it fit. I think you could wear it in public without drawing awkward notice, unwanted attention to it.
Not particularly attractive from a fashion sense, but it looks like a good hat for mowing the lawn or working in the garden. If you don't do either of those activities, probably take a pass. Thanks for this video review History Nerd! UPDATE: Great information about your MM surgery. You had a good plastic surgeon. I diagnosed several of my dental patients with MM and basal cell carcinoma. You can't have too many hats!
I have one of these and it is a lil snug, HAD IT for couple years just do not like mine I wear it just because I own it, I too developed a melanoma on my nose fortunately not as extensive as yours and was able to be removed in the dermatologist office and took several weeks of radiation treatment and my dermatologist always comments about my hat when he sees me with it on, prior to that mostly I wore caps but since then I do still wear an occasional hat but everyday you see me wearing a hat these Texas sunny days are to brutal to not I own several straws and several felts and I am proud to wear them, those old cowboys, my grandfather being one, wore them for a reason
Jeff the coonhunter from indiaña, love your unboxing vids. Thank you
The Digger is a less expensive version of the AirWay Panama Hat. they use the same block and flange in production. The crown is a Center Dent with a Pinch. Remember you get what you pay for a $41.00 hat is going to be a $41.00 hat
If anyone would know, it would be you, Chief.
I’m glad you’re cancer free after the man-thing of ignoring the obvious. This is a wake-up call for anyone who spends a lot of time in the sun. Personally, after a similar scare without a malignant result, I go to the dermatologist every 6 months for “mole patrol”. Take care all.
Yeah, I'm on the six-month schedule with my dermatologist, too. Mine is a woman, and she has no hesitation in yanking down my boxers to check the undercarriage, which has never seen even one ray of sunlight.
@@historynerdsmancave7567 That’s your control group…
I’ve had squamous cell removals 3 times in the last 3 years……now I’m also a hat guy. We never heard of sunscreen in the 1960s…..
I'd return the hat. For all the hats we've seen you wear, this one just doesn't work for you.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm now wearing hats, too.
Yeah, it's the first hat that makes me feel like a doofus when I wear it, but I'll just keep it as a yard hat. Glad you're taking precautions from sun damage, which I assume I should've done when I was much younger.
Not to rain on your parade but I purchased an Akubra, Coober Pedy style Australian digger hat in Perth, Western Australia several years ago. Your straw hat looks like astonishingly like mine. Same brim, same crown and same hatband although mine has a small white opal on it.
The wide brim sloped down on all sides is purposely done to keep the Australian sun off your face and neck and are worn by opal miners in the central Australian opal mines in the outback where temperatures soar to and well over 104 degrees F.
You should really look up Akubra hats before reviewing Stetson’s Australian style offerings so you have some idea of what you are reviewing.
Even at $80 you would have gotten a deal. Mine was about $300 AUS.
My father was born dirt poor two years before the start of the Great Depression, and often said he knew he'd made it in life when he bought his first Stetson hat and his first Lincoln Continental. Though several folks have suggested Akruba hats, I pretty much stick with Stetson hats in honor of my father. Thanks for watching!
Sorry you got a dud of a hat, we look forward to reviews of better hats. Also glad your wife convinced you to go to the doctor, the sun is nothing to mess with. I had to have a hunk of my left temple sliced off but after seeing your pictures you were lucky you didn't wait longer...wow and good luck.
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I actually wore this hat a good bit during a recent vacation to Kentucky. It did a great job of protecting me from the sun as I toured distilleries and thoroughbred horse farms...but my wife kept telling me that I looked like the dude on the old Panama Jack t-shirts when I had it on.
@@historynerdsmancave7567 The hat did it's job, that's the main thing. My wife always seems to have an opinion on what I wear too but not always the same as mine. I thought the hat looked good in the video !
You ever review Reaistol?
I would certainly review Resistol since they're owned by the same Hatco folks as Stetson, but I cannot find them in the giant 7-3/4 size that my massive head demands...
Put a mirror up behind your camera set-up.
PS. 41 bucks delivered -- and good enough for touring hooch-makers? What's to complain about?
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Panama Jack???
Good call, Chief. All I need is a monocle and a white suit...
What would be the difference between the Stetson Digger vs the Stetson Airway Panama hats?
Quality. The digger is made with manufactured Shantung paper straw, while, I believe, the Airway is made from genuine straw from Panama.