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By 1886, Stetson's hat company was the largest globally and had mechanized the hat-making industry ("producing close to 2 million hats a year by 1906"). [2] The Stetson Hat Co. ceased production in 1968 and licensed another hat company. [2] However, these hats still bear the Stetson name, with the hats produced in St. Joseph, Missouri.
With the rise of the automobile, fashions began to change by the 1930s. In 1931, the company expanded into men's straw dress hats to adopt to evolving fashion trends. [3] In 1938, the company name was changed to International Hat Company to better reflect the growing diversity of its product lines. [3]
Golfing attire of 1930, worn by Babe Ruth and former New York governor Al Smith - State Archive of Florida. Casual men's wear with striped jacket and pleated trousers , 1930. Double-breasted suits have pocket flaps and functional buttonholes in both lapels. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934. Photo of Sydney Cup, Randwick, 1937.
It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. Often, children wearing the cap would decorate it with buttons, badges, or bottle caps. [1] In the 1920s and 1930s, such caps often indicated the wearer was a mechanic. [2] [3] Once popularized, the cap began being manufactured and sold. [4] [5]
During the 1930s and 1940s, it became the largest retail chain of men's clothing in the United States, best known for selling two-pant suits. In 1975, the company was sold to foreign investors, [2] then broken up and sold in smaller groups to its management. For instance, 13 stores were operated by the Proud Wind, Inc. company. [3]
A sea of boaters in New York's Times Square, July 1921. Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men in Western Europe and the US wore hats when out of doors, "Straw Hat Day", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer.
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