`  ==Follow up==  :Hi Gold.  I'm OK with content writing when I'm motivated to do the research, but on this article, given that my attention is mostly elsewhere, I'm better being the wordsmith, format fixer, ref reformatter, content questioner and general cleaner-upper.  I guess if you have an issue with something in there now, either tag it with {{fact}} or {{dubious}} or use  to explain your concerns, rather than deleting or blanking stuff.  I can do the same.  Other than that, whatever you dig up, we can toss it around and get it into shape.  I reworked and rearranged some of your stuff, but overall I was pretty comfortable with what you found.    :First off, if you can find photos you want to use, and they pass the wikimedia commons copyright stuff to be uploaded here, that's fine.  I haven't the time nor motivation to go do any of that digging, but I do see the value in showing some style variations.  We can start a little gallery here on the talk page of what is out there and decide which images are best.  Use the  tags to place all the images in a thumbnail format, it's frowned upon in articles themselves, but OK for here.    :Second, if you want to toss the Reagan image, I don't care, i was just looking for a good movie cowboy hat sort of thing to be a contrast to the working cowboys image.  I'm personally no Reagan fan, but he actually DID know how to ride a horse and was at home in a cowboy hat.  We can use Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, whoever, no big deal.  But I see no reason to toss the other cowboy photo, it's not ``lame,`` that's one of the looks out here in the modern west, for real, trust me.  And it's good article design to use images with people in them when it is appropriate, which I think it is here.  (And the image beats most of the other photos on wiki of people wearing cowboy hats)  The lead images that you kept, by the way, were taken by a person on wiki who also does professional photography specifically so we'd have a solid basic cowboy hat photos.    :Third, If you want to draft sections on more kinds of hats, first do take a peek at what's already in the Stetson article, as there is some duplicative material there (they mention cavalry hats and the Mounties, for one thing).  We are focusing here on the cowboy hat, not every broad-brimmed hat with a crease that exists.  Last I checked, almost ALL state troopers wear that ``Smokey the Bear`` hat that is a sort-of cowboy hat, but not really. (grin)  But once you look at the other hat articles.    Fourth, we can draft up stuff on various types and uses if you want, just has to be balanced per WP:UNDUE as for the Hawaii thing, see the cowboy article where there's a history on them.  The Paniolo is not the ``first`` cowboy, the Mexican Vaquero was (``Paniolo`` may well be a corruption of ``Espanol`` and it was vaqueros who came to Hawaii to teach cattle handling skills to the locals After all, the cow was not native to Hawaii) and remember, Spain and then Mexico controlled the southwestern US until the 1840s.    :Next, if the source says twenty dollars, we say twenty dollars.  To do more, like comparing it to gold, is to stretch the limits of WP:V. (What year specifically was gold $20 and ounce?  Was the the consistent price across the entire USA? You see the problem) If you want to point out that $20 was a lot of money in those days, a good comparison is not so much to gold, but to other items...a saddle, a pair of boots, etc...Of course, there ARE hats today that are selling for several hundred dollars. Probably a pure Beaver felt hat STILL is worth about an ounce of gold. =:-O  You can drop 200 bucks on a hat and still have a lot of wool felt in it.  And there are real cheap hats selling for fifty bucks, too.    :As for felt quality and other materials, the modern cowboy hat IS made out of a lot of different things. Straw is as legit as felt.   This is a good article explaining it all.  http://www.cowboyway.com/HowTo/FeltCowboyHatCare.htm  Most fur-based felt today is actually rabbit fur.  We could discuss that some hats have better water-repelling qualities than others, but you STILL shouldn't use a good hat to water your horse!  The hats I've had over the years have been sort of middle-of the road quality with some fur felt content, and when they have gotten soaked in a rainstorm because I forgot to add a hat cover, (I show horses, sometimes it rains) they usually lose their ability to hold a crease.  A good hat takes longer to get floppy and will regain some shapeability if sprayed with laundry sizing or something, but I don't recommend it.   The cheapos they sell little kids will indeed just disintegrate. I don't know when the first straw cowboy hat was produced, but straw hats in general have been around longer than felt 