Crushable wool felt is the trick — most felt hats hold a crease until something crushes them and then the crease is gone forever. The Explorer’s wool blend is treated to spring back, so you can roll it, stuff it in a backpack, sit on it, and pop it back into shape with a thumb in the crown. Water-resistant treatment sheds light rain.
This is the hat for travelers, hikers, fly fishermen, and dads who throw a hat in the back of a truck and don’t care if it gets sat on. Pack it, wear it, lose it in the back of the closet for a year, find it, wear it again. Looks the same.
Stetson manufactures wool-felt and fur-felt hats in Garland, Texas, with hat-making operations going back to 1865.
