Cheap Cowboy Hats

Cheap Cowboy Hats For Sale On

The cowboy hats below are for sale on eBay.com, and have a current bid of $20.00 or less.

A cheap cowboy hat does not mean it has to be a poor quality hat. If you shop wisely and patiently you can often find what you are looking for in good quality at a low price.

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What Is A Felt Cowboy Hat?

Felt is a dense collection of short, single animal fibers pressed together with hot water and steam so that they interlock. Felt is a fabric but it is much stronger than woven fabrics because with felt each individual fiber is interlocked with other fibers in several different directions. Woven fabrics, on the other hand, are made from fibers that are first twisted into threads. When the threads are woven together the result is a fabric that can be torn apart in a straight line. Felt does not have this inherent weakness. Felt makes a superior fabric for a cowboy hat because it is much harder to tear or damage than other fabrics, is naturally water resistant, and is light weight.

Felt Cowboy Hats - About Those Xs

Xs are the measurement of quality for a felt cowboy hat. The more Xs, the higher the quality. Years ago the number of Xs stood for the amount of beaver used to make a hat (more Xs meant that more beaver fur was used) but this old standard is no longer true. Today, each hat maker uses Xs as a relative rating of quality for their own line of hats, both felt and straw, but there is not an industry wide standard rating system. For example, one hat maker may make a hat they rate as a 5X but this does not indicate that there is or isn't any beaver fur in the hat, and the hat may be of greater or lesser quality than another hat maker's 3X hat.

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