His hat is faithful to “Kemo Sabe’s” original style-if not to the frontier era. Hat makers eventually built those shapes into hats.ĭisney’s version of The Lone Ranger, out this summer, tips its immaculate silver Tycoon hat to the real Old West by getting the masked man out of that tight, lace-up pullover and into a period-correct morning jacket and waistcoat. Such inadvertent shapes added character and were eventually copied, exaggerated or refined by admirers of the hat or its wearer.
The dipped brim came from snugging the hat down by the brim when protecting yourself against wind or when rain ran off it. Side dents appeared as the wearer picked the hat up by its crown-slightly pinching the front sides with his thumb and index finger. Typically, a hat in the Old West just showed dents and dips from the way it was handled by its owner and how much weather it saw. Rogers’ slope was steeper, with a double teardrop crease and a sharper front pinch. Both hats featured pinched fronts and crowns that sloped to the back. They didn’t necessarily distinguish between the Lone Ranger’s Tycoon crease and, say, the similar-but more complicated-Association/Slope crease worn by Roy Rogers. Nearly every kid growing up in mid-20th century America wanted to be a cowboy. A matched color one-inch grosgrain hatband and a braided leather stampede string finished the look.ĭespite-or perhaps because of-the inaccurate depictions rampant in Western movies, the hats worn by the heroes and villains have always resonated with fans. His triangular Tycoon crease required at least a six-inch crown the four-inch brim had a pencil roll. Moore’s Lone Ranger hat was dyed to silver belly.
came in natural mottled-grey beaver fur, with a four-inch unshaped or “open” crown and a flat four-inch brim stiffened with shellac. Stetson’s popular Boss of the Plains-were too soft and low to take and hold that shape. The crowns of most felt hats from the 1800s-like J.B. Will Rogers would have raised a skeptical eyebrow. Likewise, his pinched-front felt hat-essentially an oversized nearly white fedora-was directly out of central wardrobe. As for the rest of his ensemble, that powder blue leisure suit would have gotten actor Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, laughed off the frontier. The mask alone would have earned the Texas Ranger, John Reid, a necktie party by one vigilance committee or another in the Old West. Despite the television show’s invitation to return to “those thrilling days of yesteryear,” The Lone Ranger of the 1950s depicted times, places and things as they never were.
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