Shiloh | $295 | Pecan Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 3 & 1/2in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
*This hat is a Slouch base with a curled brim
Slouch | $295 | Coffee Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 3 & 1/2in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Antietam | $295 | Black Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
General Lee | $295 | Pecan Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 3 & 3/4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Mosby | $295 | Black Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 2 & 3/4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Beehive | $295 | Pecan Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 3 & 1/4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available | Please reach out for additional colors.
Top Hat | $350 | Only offered in black | 4in-6in Crown
Derby | $295 | Granite Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 2 & 3/4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Pork Pie | $295 | Coffee Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 2 & 1/2in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Plug | $295 | Coffee Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 2 & 1/2in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available
Gettysburg | $295 | Coffee Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 3 & 1/2in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available | Please reach out for additional colors.
Plantation | $295 | Black Color Shown | 4 & 1/4in crown | 4in brim | Coffee, Pecan, Black, and Granite colors available | Please reach out for additional colors.
History on the Slouch
The slouch hat was introduced in America by a Hungarian patriot named Louis Kossuth. In 1852, Kossuth completed a speaking tour of our country where he sought and received a great deal of support for Hungarian liberties after Hungary was conquered by the Czar of Russia. Kossuth was described by William Cullen Bryant during a banquet in honor of Kossuth with the Press of New York, December 9 1851 as, “fearless, eloquent, large of heart and of mind, whose one thought is the salvation of oppressed Hungary, unfortunate, but undiscouraged, struck down in the battle of liberty, but great in defeat, and gathering strength for triumphs to come.”
Initially, the slouch hat was defined as a fairly soft hat with a low crown and a medium brim. However, by the start of the Civil War, the term slouch hat came to be associated with hats of various types of crowns, crown heights, brim widths, and degrees of softness.
The romance of the slouch hat adapted easily to American fashion and the ribbon on the brim and rounded crown added to its charm. Our Slouch Hat comes with a hand sewn leather sweatband and includes a historic cotton lining.
The photo to the right shows an individual member of the 55th Tennessee Infantry wearing the Antietam style hat.
History on Sewing
All of our Civil War styles have grosgrain ribbon either hand sewn or sewn with an original historic sewing machine on the brim. The sewing machines that historically enabled the ribbon to be sewn on the brim popular among hatters in the 1850’s.
The Shiloh hat can be seen in the left side of this drawing. The confederate soldier is leaning over General Albert Sidney Johnson after he was wounded at the battle of Shiloh.