Follow up  Hi Gold  Im OK with content writing when Im motivated to do the research but on this article given that my attention is mostly elsewhere Im better being the wordsmith format fixer ref reformatter content questioner and general cleanerupper  I guess if you have an issue with something in there now either tag it with fact or dubious or use  to explain your concerns rather than deleting or blanking stuff  I can do the same  Other than that whatever you dig up we can toss it around and get it into shape  I reworked and rearranged some of your stuff but overall I was pretty comfortable with what you found    First off if you can find photos you want to use and they pass the wikimedia commons copyright stuff to be uploaded here thats fine  I havent the time nor motivation to go do any of that digging but I do see the value in showing some style variations  We can start a little gallery here on the talk page of what is out there and decide which images are best  Use the  tags to place all the images in a thumbnail format its frowned upon in articles themselves but OK for here    Second if you want to toss the Reagan image I dont care i was just looking for a good movie cowboy hat sort of thing to be a contrast to the working cowboys image  Im personally no Reagan fan but he actually DID know how to ride a horse and was at home in a cowboy hat  We can use Tom Mix Roy Rogers whoever no big deal  But I see no reason to toss the other cowboy photo its not lame thats one of the looks out here in the modern west for real trust me  And its good article design to use images with people in them when it is appropriate which I think it is here  And the image beats most of the other photos on wiki of people wearing cowboy hats  The lead images that you kept by the way were taken by a person on wiki who also does professional photography specifically so wed have a solid basic cowboy hat photos    Third If you want to draft sections on more kinds of hats first do take a peek at whats already in the Stetson article as there is some duplicative material there they mention cavalry hats and the Mounties for one thing  We are focusing here on the cowboy hat not every broadbrimmed hat with a crease that exists  Last I checked almost ALL state troopers wear that Smokey the Bear hat that is a sortof cowboy hat but not really grin  But once you look at the other hat articles    Fourth we can draft up stuff on various types and uses if you want just has to be balanced per WPUNDUE as for the Hawaii thing see the cowboy article where theres a history on them  The Paniolo is not the first cowboy the Mexican Vaquero was Paniolo may well be a corruption of Espanol and it was vaqueros who came to Hawaii to teach cattle handling skills to the locals After all the cow was not native to Hawaii and remember Spain and then Mexico controlled the southwestern US until the s    Next if the source says twenty dollars we say twenty dollars  To do more like comparing it to gold is to stretch the limits of WPV What year specifically was gold  and ounce  Was the the consistent price across the entire USA You see the problem If you want to point out that  was a lot of money in those days a good comparison is not so much to gold but to other itemsa saddle a pair of boots etcOf course there ARE hats today that are selling for several hundred dollars Probably a pure Beaver felt hat STILL is worth about an ounce of gold O  You can drop  bucks on a hat and still have a lot of wool felt in it  And there are real cheap hats selling for fifty bucks too    As for felt quality and other materials the modern cowboy hat IS made out of a lot of different things Straw is as legit as felt   This is a good article explaining it all  httpwwwcowboywaycomHowToFeltCowboyHatCarehtm  Most furbased felt today is actually rabbit fur  We could discuss that some hats have better waterrepelling qualities than others but you STILL shouldnt use a good hat to water your horse  The hats Ive had over the years have been sort of middleof the road quality with some fur felt content and when they have gotten soaked in a rainstorm because I forgot to add a hat cover I show horses sometimes it rains they usually lose their ability to hold a crease  A good hat takes longer to get floppy and will regain some shapeability if sprayed with laundry sizing or something but I dont recommend it   The cheapos they sell little kids will indeed just disintegrate I dont know when the first straw cowboy hat was produced but straw hats in general have been around longer than felt