Hat Care Tips
- To remove dust and surface dirt from your hat; if you own a straw simply wipe it clean with a damp cloth. If your hat is fur felt, use a soft brush, starting at the left side of the hat and brush it counterclockwise toward the back and around again. Brushing a hat clockwise is like trying to stroke a cat from tail to head- it isn’t satisfying for the hat, the wearer, or the cat
- If your hat gets wet, shake off the excess water. If you have a fur felt, turn down the leather sweat band and stand the hat on the sweat band to dry naturally.
- Avoid exposing your hat to heat from stoves, lamps, radiators, and car windows. Heat will make your hat shrink.
- Don't pick up your hat by the brim as the weight of the rest of the hat will weaken the set or angle of the brim, be it flat or curved. Picking the hat up by both front and back brims is preferred.
- The best way to pick up a hat is, of course from beneath. If the hat is on a hat stand, hook, or block, this is done quite easily and puts the least strain on the brim or crown. Never rest the hat, brim down, on a flat surface.
- To preserve the pitch, of the hat brim, the downward bending front part should always hang over the edge of the resting surface. Thrown carelessly on a table, the brim will curl upward, front and back, drawing the sides down, ruining the brim shape.
- Another way to put your hat down is to rest it upside down on its crown. Just be sure the surface is clean
- One last note: Never stack your hat on another hat. This practice will stretch or buckle the crown and brim; a problem that requires a professional hat blocker to properly resize, (if it can be done at all).
