JohninKansas: My mother still has the gray felt unfinished Stetson she got at Girl Scout gathering in 1965. We joke that it looks like the last Confederate to surrender--stained, holey, and rumpled--but it still functions as a hat. It's a bit of a family heirloom now.

I don't know where to get a new one, though (or I would have). At least not a felt one. We do know a guy who sells palm hats, though. My mother has one. Very nice.