[Why?]

How do you guys tie a string thing to your cowboy hat so that it goes under your chin? I want to see the differnent ways.

[sorrell]

In Western circles, tying your hat under your chin is the equivalent of wearing your pants tucked in your boots. You don't do it. Better to have a well fitted hat or use add on padding to the brow band to help it stay put.

[Moostang]

I have to have a string for cowboy mounted shooting (galloping + cowboy hat = dirty hat on ground). The strings do not "tie" it has a bolo of sorts.

For everyday wear or pics, I put the string behind my ears and down my back.

[Moostang]

Here is what I have, you can see the bolo near the end by the tassels
http://www.sheplers.com/hats/hat_acc...items-rank-all

[Sliding4ever]

Originally Posted by sorrell

In Western circles, tying your hat under your chin is the equivalent of wearing your pants tucked in your boots. You don't do it. Better to have a well fitted hat or use add on padding to the brow band to help it stay put.

Why aren't you suppose to tuck your jeans into boots? I do it everytime I ride. It keeps my jeans from twisting up on me. I could see why you don't do it at a show though.

[LateralFlexion]

They are called stampede strings and they attach with cotter pins. Most strings come with the pins. But if you are making your own, you can find cotter pins at the hardware store.

http://www.outwestsaddlery.com/html/...e_strings.html

[Why?]

I do have a well fitted hat but the way the wind is here it doesn't care how tight or fitted your hat is it is coming off. But I might just deal with it and keep my face down more then the wind doesn't get under my hat as easily.

[Tack Collector]

Could you put something inside the hat between the sweatband and the hat to make it fit snugly? Run bobby pins through your hair and into the hat so that they grip the sweatband on either side? Then also have the strings, even if they are mostly for show.

LOL at "Why aren't you suppose to tuck your jeans into boots? I do it everytime I ride. It keeps my jeans from twisting up on me. I could see why you don't do it at a show though." Yeah. When you look at all those '30s movie cowboys and the western swing bands of the '30s and '40s, they all have strings on their hats and their straight leg pants are tucked into elaborately decorated boot shafts. Personally, I'd rather dress like that at a show than be all bound up in those contemptible chaps, LOL! Let's all go Retro.

[sorrell]

Wearing your pants in your boots signifies you are city-fied, not country-fied as city slickers want to show off the tooling on their boots, whereas the real deal wears boots for practicality, not show.

[iridehorses]

Originally Posted by sorrell

Wearing your pants in your boots signifies you are city-fied, not country-fied as city slickers want to show off the tooling on their boots, whereas the real deal wears boots for practicality, not show.

Totally untrue. Open any issue of Western Horseman and count the number of ranchers that tuck their pants in their boots. It's not a style I like personally but it is not reserved for city slickers at all.

A business associate of mine is a cutting horse trainer in Texas and that is the only way he and many like him will wear their boots and Wranglers.