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Straw cowboy hat from 1 April through 30 September. Felt cowboy hat from 1 October through 31 March. I prefer a chocolate brown or wheat color for my felt hats. ALL of my hats are made by Mister Roy Jackson of www.jaxonbilthats.com.

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Whilst I like the lightness of a straw hat I simply don't get the durability out of it I require, whereas my current felt hat is nearly in its last legs but has lasted a few years. Straw hats don't do that when you use them on the farm

Love my brown felt cowboy hat...

Black Felt all year long. straw is too sissy....

Winter time a nice white or black felt and sumer time a palm leaf. In extremely cold times a kroner.

6 degrees is too cold for a cowboy hat, i don't care who you are. so i switched to a stormy kromer, a wool hunting hat, it sort of looks like what elmer fudd wore but my ears are warm now.

Straw for a hot summer day, felt all other times, currently I favour my brown felt hat.

I prefer a straw hat over he felt cowboy hat any day. Just something about it seems more traditional

Straws are ok but palm leaf is where its at now. Strong, sturdy hats that last forever. you can't sweat through them and water doesn't hurt them. its a great hat for someone that uses their hands for a living. it stays hot just about year around here so felt season is short but I do have one, its a resitol silverbelly but next week im going to capitol hatters in stephenville tx to have one custom made. pretty excited...

We get a hot and sticky summer here in Nebraska, so a straw hat in the summer is a must. I also have a felt silverbelly for the usually brutal winters. I like the feel of the felt hat more but the straw is nice and light for the 4-5 hot months we get. We've got some pets so the black felt is a real pain to keep looking good.

Black felt all year round..... If you work with horses you can´t wear straw.....they just steal it and try to eat it....

I like straw cowboy hat and love the yellow

since im from texas and particularly the panhandle.im qualified to voice my opinion,some cowboys wear hats some wear ball caps,and some wear nothing at all.My personal preference is black felt year round,my head my choice,my hat.As one hatmaker said "you do the walking,let the hat do the talking.

I always love this discussion - especially the igits that say only real cowboys wear felt. A real cowboy wears anything he wants to. But it would typically be felt in winter and straw in the summer. Around here you are just asking for heatstroke by wearing a black felt in the summer - that is just plain silly. But I have known many friends that do it just because they think they need to fit some kind of mold. A real cowboy doesn't need to fit a mold - that's the whole idea of being a cowboy.
I knew many women in my life that would judge a man by his hat - and it was so silly. Several have said that only black felt should be worn and wranglers (but only if the wranglers were bought at a western store and not walmart LOL). They would date the dudes because they wore black felt and miss out on the real thing because we were wearing what we liked - most of the time a ball cap.
Anyway, thats my 2 bits.

I always love this discussion - especially the igits that say only real cowboys wear felt. A real cowboy wears anything he wants to. But it would typically be felt in winter and straw in the summer. Around here you are just asking for heatstroke by wearing a black felt in the summer - that is just plain silly. But I have known many friends that do it just because they think they need to fit some kind of mold. A real cowboy doesn't need to fit a mold - that's the whole idea of being a cowboy.
I knew many women in my life that would judge a man by his hat - and it was so silly. Several have said that only black felt should be worn and wranglers (but only if the wranglers were bought at a western store and not walmart LOL). They would date the dudes because they wore black felt and miss out on the real thing because we were wearing what we liked - most of the time a ball cap.
Anyway, thats my 2 bits.

Depends on the season but I love my black felt more.

Ithink it depends on the time of year, summer straw winter felt

First off, lets be realistic. Felt hats are "traditional cowboy". It's impossible to fill a straw hat with water for your horse and not ruin the hat. So, felts are the "true choice" of a real cowboy. However, as times have changed, the straw has become a popular choice. Yes, they are cooler for Summer. As for my routine...I was raised "old school" that meant Straw hat after Easter and Felt hat after Labor day.

Straw hats are nice, but you have to wear felt if you are a real cowboy, when you are rounding up cattle and riding in the brush straw gets torn up pretty easily, also straw does not hold water if you want to give your horse a little water, also straw crushes if you want to put it under your head when you are on the trail and getting a little sleep. White in the summer, black or brown in the winter. A nice straw hat is good if you want to take your lady out dancing.

Western Straw Hats for Summer & Felt Hat for Winter !! No question!!

Both, Straw in the spring/summer, and felt in the fall/winter.

I have a confession to make. I am not a cowgirl. I am an Eastern urban/tenderfoot/dudette who's been on a horse ONCE. (It did not go well, I was terrified.) I have never owned a cowboy hat -- until now. When I went to Oklahoma earlier this month my friend from there greeted me at the Tulsa airport with a black felt Stetson hat. (!!! What a gift!!) It is my favorite present EVER. I don't wear it in public because a) I don't feel I have the right to wear it, b) nobody around here wears cowboy hats, and c) I look silly in hats, even a gorgeous black felt Stetson. (I sometimes wear it inside the house just for the thrill.)

But to answer the question, I think if I were a working cowgirl, the black felt would definitely be a winter hat, and I'd want a light-colored straw one for hot weather.

Hahaha - I find this topic and some of the comments so funny... I think I can speak from experience of the last oh - at least 40 years to say a few things. The first and most important would be to answer the poster above who said "REAL COWBOYS WEAR FELT ALL YEAR LONG" - NOT. Real cowboys will usually wear the dirtiest, most worn comfortable one they have that fits the season and the work they are doing period. The hat of choice for my husband was most often: Winter - black wool 20X for work but loved to dress up in his gorgeous Silver Belly if going out or to church. Spring/Fall - A good straw (the more worn the better) and his hat preference because of its cooling ability for Summer work - A handmade Palm. Nothing cools like it. I/we could dunk our palms in the cool stream or water trough and wear it dry and it will keep you cool when nothing else can!! It too makes a wonderful water bucket.

My two SENSE worth :) LOL

i love a good, soft, white straw hat in the summer. i was never a fan of felt hats because i wrecked them to easy but the wool ones that you can crush and they spring back to shape are the best in my book.Wool ones make great water buckets in a pinch too.

up north here we wear staw in the summer, wool and felts in the winter, spring and fall.

Real cowboys wear felt hats all year round.

Brown Straw spring, & fall. White Straw summer. Black Felt winter.

Palm leaf straw in the summer, they are cooler than the white straw hats , it gets HOT here in Florida. Brown felt in the winter .

White straw hats!!!

I always go Brown Felt Labor Day to Memorial Day, Straw the rest of the year.