2020 Western Cowboy Hat Shaping Pt.1. Top Mens and Woman's creases at Emporium Western Store.

The Emporium Western Store in Bakersfield, CA is a landmark establishment that has a long history of shaping cowboy hats. Home to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, many country legends and celebrities have stopped by to have their hats shaped. Big Al was a fixture there for years. Now Ronda Lemons is the shaper after Big Al's passing. We have two parts to this. In this video, we look at the top shape for men and women. She forms 2 cowboy hats and talk about what goes into shaping. In the next video we talk about the top Hispanic cowboy shape and a few cowboy hat techniques to keeping beaver skin hats looking like new. Please subscribe and click the bell icon for more.

[@davefarrar7435]

My daughter bought the first hat yesterday right after you shot the video. It's now a famous hat. Thanks Rhonda for the great service.

[@cowboybigfoot6577]

I learned my favorite style is a girls hat lol

[@UrMom-vo2mt]

Cowboy Bigfoot is it called the UN crown?

[@angelfabian5025]

How much did she pay?

[@lowes891646]

The style of Hoss's hat, fit him perfectly. Dan Blocker... What a treasure.

[@cowboybigfoot6577]

Thanks you for acknowledging Bakersfield is still a western town.

[@btuff]

It is but it's losing its history.

[@cowboybigfoot6577]

@@btuff sadly, I miss our podunk days

[@randomchannel4886]

Hows the crime rate.. might be up there in january for a job

[@aquapros916]

@@randomchannel4886 its a shithole these days....

[@randythompson1957]

Glen Orms taught me how to shape a hat about 40 years ago. I still find very interesting.

[@paulafranceschi]

She's an amazing craftsman!!!

[@1975ELBRAVO]

Gifted hands...those hat shapes are amazing.

[@erveybarragan1140]

You did an awesome job ma'am.Perfect👍

[@edbeale]

This is so cool! I’ve never watched someone shape a hat before!

[@jessedavis7555]

Great job thank you for sharing ☺️👏

[@thomasjml82]

Super cool! I love you lil lady. Keep doin what you do.

[@Doc.Holiday]

I have used straw hats in the summer for years. I recently had a Palm cowboy had shaped and fitted to me at Double H in Darby Montana. I find Palm to be much more durable and cooling.than straw. You can dunk it in water to cool you down with evaporation without losing shape. It just keeps getting better and better. I’m forever here forward sold on Palm cowboy hats.

[@drwisdom1]

They quit making straw hats decades ago, it became way too expensive. For a long time cowboy hats have been made from "shantung" which is a high quality paper that is more durable that straw. I do have a Resistol hat from the 1950s or 60s that is a Panama straw hat (which are hand weaved in Ecuador) and it is different and nice.

[@Doc.Holiday]

@@drwisdom1 interesting factoid… they feel like paper now that I know that. In addition to my Double H Palm, I have an Akubra Range Hemp that I wear to town and for bourbon hour on the veranda. That hat has worn well for a long time.

[@frantictats1676]

Patiently waiting for part 2

[@btuff]

It’s up, look at my new videos.

[@michaelfox2989]

Awesome how this is done..Thank you

[@GwenMotoGirl]

This is so interesting!

[@lukeescamilla9386]

I once had a straw that was going strong for almost 8 months but a 400 pond Bramen calf put that to an end real quick

[@Hear4Metallica]

My record is almost 2 years for a straw worn daily in hot humid Florida. I now wear palm. You can soak em.

[@shannonpattenthetexasbb]

That hat reminds me of one back in the eighties

[@shane8037]

this chick is great, I'm going to ride up to Bakersfield tomorrow and get me a hat

[@jeffhill1708]

Beautiful Lady making beautiful hats

[@rondarlemons6429]

Thank you!

[@justindenson1235]

Cool hand Luke is very popular here in Texas I work at bootbarn shaping hats

[@tctn615]

I was actually wondering if Boot Barn shaped hats.

[@brunningwolf]

The best of the best trust me’’

[@beastlyidiots9232]

Rhonda rocks!!!!

[@John-ql2qr]

Can you go over what hat shapes work with different face shapes?

[@itumelengmokoena6886]

Am from south Africa and I love cowboy hats and bull riding

[@brunningwolf]

My favorite

[@Myrghomes]

I like the look of a cattleman's crease but I find that in most hats the center crease hits the top of my head and prevents it from sitting correctly on my head. What adjustment or different crease choice can I make to help me have the look I liike?

[@thomasallen3818]

In Texas we call the girls brim a snow plow. It’s more for drugstore Cowboys and girls.

[@jwhandmadebali]

nice....❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@hansbaeker9769]

I've had problems with sunburning eyes and so I do like a more or less flat brim to try to cover them better. In the 1970s, I wore a flat brimmed black hat with a mild telescope crown and a red, white, and blue hat band. Some people even though it was like Billy Jack's hat in the tv show even though his had an open crown and a blue and white hat band. As a result, I got called Billy Jack a lot. I really liked this hat and am tempted to get another similar to it. I have looked at some of the pre-made gambler hats, but they are so cheap and flimsy that I don't like them so the next time I'm in the city where there is both a Cavender's and a Boot Barn and I'm tempted to have one shaped for me at one of the two stores. I think I still have that hat from the 70's somewhere, but I'm not sure where -- if I can find it, I may take it with me. One thing, though, about having one shaped since I've never had one shaped before. Is the shaping part of the hat or is that extra? Do you tip the hat shaper? If so, how much is normal?

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

Because I have such a small head {{ compact intelligence }} I had a hard time finding a good hat in my size. {Beaver} I have had that hat for decades, you get what you pay for! Question: I would like to know if it can be stretched out just a bit. It gets just a might tight when the weather gets warm. Just a touch but I would like it loosened up a bit?

[@drwisdom1]

I collect vintage Stetson hats. Back in the 1960s styles changed such that when you see a 1960s hat you say it doesn't look as good but it has that 1960ish look. Similarly, today's trend is to have a very flat and wide front of the brim which then turns up aggressively with a sharp bend. In the old days hats were never creased that way and I don't find that style appealing. I prefer that the brim forms a smooth tasteful curve rather than have straight and sharp edges. I suspect that in ten years hats will return to traditional non-aggressive creasing and we will look back at the current style as early 2000s.

[@jamesjudice5347]

Hi Kev! I have an olive colored crushable but, on the inside it is brown colored. Is that due to fading, sun-damage or we’re there hats that were made that way?

[@anthonysteelman7330]

Does the emporium have a website to order from. I’d love to buy a hat an have it shaped by Rhonda

[@brunningwolf]

Wow girl’’

[@manuelalejandroreyesloya5541]

Exelent hane work im laked het vaquero im usin 2 het of year

[@bigjay123]

Get one with the 'Pringles' curve in it.

[@cowboybigfoot6577]

I still remember a time when people would ride horses down rosedale

[@rumisfordrinkingnotburning]

What height was the crown? A 5'?

[@masonwiese2883]

What is the brim style for the women's hat

[@mikemorgan8895]

Can you change a crown from pinch front to cattleman?

[@phillipbustin8349]

i saw a hat in siverton colo. had this huge high crown on the front like a mountain with big brim tryin to find what it ws called the cowboys riding in the show were wearing around the stagecoach..and cowboys in colo who driving transporting livestock?

[@robertclark4509]

I tried to order online from there. Emporium Western Store. How would you suggest I pick a hat from just a telephone conversation ?

[@rondarlemons6429]

You can call me and I can tell you what we have and colors and take some pictures and send them to you and then you pick one we can do everything over the phone if you want

[@querolloconel4346]

I’m driving back from Oklahoma and I got a hat for a gift and I’d like to shape it back to what it was. What part of Bakersfield??? I’m going back to Fresno

[@btuff]

Downtown.

[@claudiopellerito2878]

Which material is that? Palm leaf?

[@rlin2648]

Can anyone tell me what kind of cowboy hat Billy gibbons wore in concert tour 1982? It had a really tall crown. I want one badly. Thank you! 😊

[@toxichydro8771]

I like how you got a picture of my 8th cousin buffalo bill on the wall

[@EducatedanBlack]

Great video and tutorial

[@rondarlemons6429]

Thank you!

[@michaelschulze6545]

She knows her trade.

[@rondarlemons6429]

Thank you !

[@lobohats6426]

What hat steamer do y’all use ??

[@rondarlemons6429]

Hoffman

[@albertorodriguez4289]

I’d like to buy one for my husband, where is the store and how much does the first hat cost?

[@btuff]

Call down to the Emporium Western Store in Bakersfield and ask for Ronda

[@thomasjml82]

You’re in Bakersfield California? Imma come buy a hat from you little lady!

[@Cowboy-e1c]

I am back after watching BIG AL😊, my heart was bounding the whole time seeing those beautiful cowboy hats😍😍😍😍😍 ooooh my gosh😂. By luck and by chance I got a hat {5x} made in Columbia, from a colleague of mine who's aunt lives in AMERICA sent me a hat which was too tight to wear😂 so I had to remove the leather inside the hat and steam it with my rice cooker 😂 and shape myself after watching KZbin, and when I asked my colleague for another hat he said there was no chance since he didn't want to trouble his aunt!!!!! Please watch my channel you will see me wearing that troublesome hat😂. Love watching this video 💖💖💖

[@skydayang]

Hello, how much does it cost to get a hat shaped?

[@perryanderson9127]

Where do you get a Steamer like that

[@Abbysteel3456]

Beautiful, do you ever donate to the ones you don't use.. I like to promote new products in Toronto.

[@TheTravAbides]

When streaming this to my tv it just stutters. Anyone else have the problem? Only in this channels videos.

[@christianmaldonado3953]

How much for the straw hat

[@parkerhorton8318]

Americans are usually $130-$170 for the straws

[@layudbahi5670]

How to order

[@rondarlemons6429]

Please give us a call 661-325-8476 and ask for Ronda

[@HOOSH69]

A good lookin ol gal shaping hats is pure eye candy! Lol

[@scott76421]

I only go to Ronda and I don't even live in the same state.

[@angelvelasquez7355]

Still waiting on the Hispanic shape

[@LuvMyCardiKids]

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[@leohthelion8485]

I was waiting for the Hispanic one..what happened?

[@blakecoleman4896]

Fun fact, his name was not hoss, that was the nickname, his name was Eric Cartright

[@nicholasgarza7913]

This is in bako

[@trevino37]

I just can't see how you talk and shape a hat at the same time......i'd be worried if that was my hat your shaping...lol..lol...lol.

[@mathewshoyt1763]

fire hazard blocking the fire exit

[@twinsonic]

11:00 absolutely hate that snow shovel shape. I know it is all custom, but that is just ugly.

[@shortstack343]

It's not a brick top, it's an R.C.A. crown

[@jakewashburn4426]

I say if you ain’t going cowboy style for the brim then why wear one

[@tom7601]

To shield your head from the sun?

[@Daniel-yt6sc]

The Hispanics? Mexican people invented this shaping

[@kevinreeder925]

You never steam a crown from the inside .

[@evergreenrider]

Lmaoooo. A youtube comment trying to tell a professional how to do their job. Maybe YOU don't steam a crown from the inside. Maybe it doesn't matter on a straw hat without the silk lining. But I assure you, she's forgotten more about shaping hats than you've ever known.

[@dangeloflores5134]

@@evergreenrider I shape hats professionally and you can steam the hats from the inside of the brim or crown but if the sweatband is leather there’s a big chance that it can crack

[@kevinreeder925]

Bro I build hats for a living. I know how the tolerances for these leathers are.

[@crobledo89]

we are not hispanics we are mixed natives sir

[@josesalinas7957]

I can’t take my hats to shape with tha lady I don’t like the way she did

[@ethanaltovilla374]

huh?

[@ethanaltovilla374]

she shapes them however you want bro...

[@josesalinas7957]

@@ethanaltovilla374 I don’t think so, I see how she did in the video and I don’t like the shape looks ugly

[@ethanaltovilla374]

@@josesalinas7957 then don’t get that shape?? You can do any shape you want bubba. Just because she didn’t in the video doesn’t mean you have to get it. She can shape into whatever crease you want

[@josesalinas7957]

@@ethanaltovilla374 I don’t think so

[@tonytorreano6476]

Good video, but the audio from her was very poor and in some instances unintelligible.

[@joshelford8259]

Good stuff, but learn some manners, bud. Let her finish her response, lol. Interrupting is disrespectful, especially toward a woman.

[@clint3287]

Hey Rhonda I need to get in touch with you but wish with you but I don't do Instagram or Facebook or anything like that so I would love to talk to you. I don't know how is there any way that I can contact you?

[@btuff]

Call emporium western store and ask for Ronda