Books for The Shootist, John Wayne wore a cowboy hat with a six-inch crown in his favored pinch-front, triangle crease style. Golden Gate Western Wear offers the Duke’s Shootist hat in 10X beaver.

To find your hat size, use a fabric tape measure and wrap it around your head about 3/4″ above your ears where a hat naturally sits. For the best-looking and most comfortable fit, please make sure that the bottom of the tape touches slightly above your eyebrows while resting straight around your head.

Can a Resistol Hat be re-sized to fit better? No, not really. A fur felt hat can be taken down one full size, but not increased. A hat retailer might be able to stretch the hat a little, but when you stretch a hat, after a time, it will go back to its original size.

Stampede strings are the most effective accessory you can use to keep your cowboy hat on in the wind. Stampede strings wrap under your chin to secure the hat to your head and allow you to adjust the tightness for a perfect fit. They can be added to any cowboy hat using grommets and a pair of grommet pliers.

A “10 galón” sombrero was a hat with a large enough crown that it could hold 10 hatbands, but American cowboys may have anglicized the word to “gallon” and started referring to their own sombrero-inspired headgear as “10-gallon hats.” Yet another linguistic theory argues that the name is a corruption of the Spanish …

The Rip Wheeler hat
The Rip Wheeler hat, inspired by the hat made for Cole Hauser for Season 1 of the hit television show Yellowstone. This hat is classic Reiner crease, with a self-band.

Greeley Hat Works
Greeley Hat Works were the offical hatter for hit television show, Yellowstone. The John Dutton hat, inspired by the hat made for Kevin Costner on the show. This hat is classic Reiner crease, with a braided hatband.