which bonnet

**Kanati** · 7th January 16, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by slothead

What seems odd to me is that for the two fellows in the center, the sun seems to be at different angles (different shade trajectory). I can't believe that anyone would fool with those images though. I suppose it is just the positioning of the bonnets.

Looks OK to me. The sun appears to be high overhead. The bump in the shadow on the chest of the left three is cast from their noses. You can see the sun on their nose. The guy to the right is hard to tell because of the boxes. The shadow angle look the same on the jeeps bumper as well.

**Lady Grey** · 7th January 16, 01:33 PM

I love the old photos however I'm sure most of them had skin cancers removed in their later lives... A bit of shade is not sun protection as we have all learnt.

We're all so off topicic and Sailortats event has been and gone (and gorgeous he looked) but this is great fun!

What's a "Shady Brady"?

**MacKenzie** · 7th January 16, 03:38 PM

Shady Brady is actually a brand...

http://www.shadybrady.com/

... but it's come to be the defacto name for name for loose-weave straw hats in made in the cowboy style. Typically with a pinched crown, a rolled/crumpled brim and an elaborate band.

**OC Richard** · 9th January 16, 04:26 AM

My point was that our modern image of the "Cowboy hat" isn't what the 19th century image of the "Cowboy hat" was.

This would be recognized anywhere on earth, probably, as an American Cowboy

but in the 1870s or 1880s his hat would look quite alien.

The 19th century "Cowboy hat" par excellence, the Montana Peak with flat wide brim, became a standard military and police hat.

**MacKenzie** · 11th January 16, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

My point was that our modern image of the "Cowboy hat" isn't what the 19th century image of the "Cowboy hat" was.

You are correct, of course.

My comment was influenced by my involvement in Cowboy Action Shooting. A lot of us in the game tend to be more (as bad as I hate to say it) "period correct" in our cowboy head gear and avoid the modern cowboy hat.

All that is opinion of course. Hats of the era for the everyday man were mostly nondescript until John Stetson...

... threw his hat in the ring.