I have a black, beat-up Dennis Hopper-on-drugs cowboy hat, but I wanted a classic cowboy hat with nice trim lines…the kind that Hopper wore in The American Friend…the kind that country music stars wear when they perform…the kind of hat that Ringo Starr wears on the cover of “Look Up.”
My mistake was buying an El Cheapo Chinese cowboy hat, which arrived yesterday. The basic problem is that it’s not a cowboy hat, or certainly not my idea of one. The brim isn’t wide enough. It ain’t buckaroo…looks like a modified panama. The Chinese burned me. Tied a tin can to my tail. Humiliating.
