Warped Hat

I hope so, otherwise you will have to wear a check shirt and chew tobacco all the time.

I got the same effect with mine, but had to run it through the washer a few times to get there.

You might ask your cleaner if they block hats. I think that's what blocking means.

Try to find a milliner.

If you can't find one in New Jersey, I'm sure you could find one in New York that you could either take or ship your hat to.

Where in New Jersey are you? I was born there, visited there maybe 2 months ago.

Could you try to steam it; maybe hang it in the bathroom and run a hot shower (but NOT on the hat!!!) for a while?

Go online for a hatter--that is what people who make and repair hats are called. Roger is correct, "repairing" hats which have lost their shape is called blocking. You might have your best luck contacting a hatter who deals in "cowboy hats," as they would be the most numerous and sophisticated of hatters in the United States. I don't wear hats, although i've owned them for silly reasons (i.e., to have them for silly occasions) and i have had hats cleaned and blocked. That was many years ago, though, and as few men now wear hats (other than baseball caps, which ruin their hair and make them look like slobs not matter how stylish they otherwise appear), the "art" of cleaning and blocking hats is being lost.

Thank you very much for the advice.

I'm from Toms River, by the way.

Oh!

Brielle.

i was born in east orange

An ancestor who landed in New Jersey in 1676 once owned most of Monmouth County . . . wish we still did, i'd be rich . . .

crap, rich wouldn't be the word...

they'd have to invent a new one.

East Orange huh?

Wha? You got a promlim widdat?

My father was from Hackensack.