Or maybe a Navajo Indian? Because I desperately need a Billy Jack hat.
Not for me, though. For a friend.
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’Dillos don’t look good in hats.
I’d Photoshop an example, but the lighting is bad here.
I’m serious, though. One of the most famous hats in American cinema history, and I can’t find one anywhere.
Except on eBay, for $300. Which I’m pretty sure the Navajo ain’t shelling out.
If you are serious about real genuine serious hats, try Akubra. Expensive, but worth it.
But you should only go looking for trouble in an Akubra hat if you are very, very tough. Billy Jack isn’t tough enough for an Akubra hat. I’m talking monotone Chuck Norris tough.
Three words, then:
ROAD.
TRIP.
ARIZONA.
Here’s one for $42, Jeff.
Double that, wishbone. You’ve gotta use ask instead of google. It’s not a classy, but it still works.
Paul Simon doing Billy Jack on SNL was the best “acting” he’s ever done.
You might be able to find one at the next Pow Wow, but that’s not til next March. You’re probably better off with the Internet.
This is accurate to the film (and handmade with a loom on the Kahnawake Indian Reserve), though a bit more expensive.
This company’s got the basic Navajo felt hat for $32, plus various styles of premade beaded bands (none quite like the Billy Jack, sadly).
http://www.greyowlcrafts.com/clothingACC/hats.htm
Good luck in your Billy Jack quest!
You get good quality with the Aussies.
Good luck. About ten years ago I asked my dad if he could find me a Billy Jack band for my Stetson he bought for me when I was nineteen. My dad has been a premiere gun maker for the past thirty years so I figured he would find one easy. It took him three weeks and a lot of favors before he got one special made by a native American lady in Kentucky. Apparently, any true native American hat band has to use horse hair which was the reason for the delay.
Here is a serviceable wool version for an afforadable price (although they are most certainly out of stock).
My cousin is a milliner in Oregon. Here is her website:
<a href=”http://www.pinkhammillinery.com/” target=”If you don’t mind a lovely lady’s hat”>
Well, I seriously botched that, didn’t I.
just go to http://www.pinkhammillinery.com.
If you don’t mind a lovely lady’s hat, that is.
http://www.millerhats.com
Should have what you want. But these are the real deal and do cost some green.
Huge sale at Ernstlicht to complete the look.
Can’t have a big tall stovey hat without ebroidered shorts.
Is this new hat in keeping with your new ‘superlative’ label? Just wonderin’.
Jeff must be angling for that upcoming open slot in UC’s ethnic studies department.
Don’t forget to grow your hair long and resent whitey!
’Don’t get cocky, kid’ – Han Solo
What? Other than Ward Churchill, you mean…?
Before she got married, my grandma was a milliner.
Course, she’s been dead for 27 years now, so I don’t think that’d help you, Jeff….Sorry.
TW: out – guess that puts her out of the picture.
And anyway, why the interest in such a dated fashion? I hear green helmets are all the rage these days.
Title: The Ballad of Billy Jeff.
Speaking of Hans, can anyone tell about where I can get a the classical Hans Solo hat? I’m looked everywhere, and I’m just not finding.
Aslo, the whip.
Actuaully, to be TOTALY honest, what I’m relly the market for is the Boy Geroge hat, which, if you think about, is pretty close to Billy Jack in styles, worn a little higher up the head.
I’m surprise that is not more still in the fashion, the classical Boy George look of 1980’s or circa thereabouts. Maybe a come back?
Withheld:
I have searched without success for the Han Solo hat, but I did manage to find the Princess Leia Wig (TM) described thusly:
Does that help? At $14.99, it looks like a real steal.
Somebody got up early this morning in Oregon to posts legal letters on thie blog.
Yeah, I know. I wasn’t going to mention it.
Let me put it this way: we’re probably doing Jeff a favor by giving her as little airplay as possible right now. Just my opinion.
sorry for the typos.
For a moment there, I sounded Batfrisch Crazy.
Is hat-blogging comparable to cat-blogging?
Just asking.
Yeah, right. C’mon, folks – it’s a goof. Nobody’s gonna buy a goddamn Billy Jack hat.
And if you keep pointing out haberdashers, y’know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna take my left foot and kick you on the right side of your pointy head.
And there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it.
SB: plans
Jeff, try Shepler’s. A Billy Jack hat is just a black cowboy hat unformed.
Is this friend of yours going down to Crawford Texas wearing a Billy Jack hat to have talk with St. Cindy the peace mom? Because if that is the case I would pay to see that.
TW: I can “picture” that.
I got mine here:
Arizona Hatters & Western Apparel
Contact: Ms. Grace Dix
Address:
2790 N. Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719-3144
Map it!
Phone: 520-881-3950
Fax: 520-881-3269
Website: http://www.azhatters.com
Category: Hats – Retail
Maybe you should just hire Chuck Norris.
Just sayin’.
Wait, is Chuck this ‘friend’ of yours?
Or, maybe its zombie Billy Jack?
<insert Billy Jack quote followed by “brains…”>
You know what they say about playing with the dark arts…
Though, personally, I think Billy Jack’s zombie would remember where to get one of those hats.
TW: Honestly, I’m not helping at all.
“There’d better not be any living dead up there, son!”
“Awwww, DAD!…”
— Invader Zim
SB: water
freeze-dried
Jeff,
I’ve got a black Tom Mix that is similar.
Oh, if you want to roll down to Crawford, get to Dallas and we can road trip right down to Waco and over to Crawford. I can score a few paintball guns and we can do a “hot pink” driveby on Mother Moonbat’s Ranch.
Afterwards, we can stop at Baylor and tempt the Baptist girls to drink Zima and do the Lambada. (It’s the forbidden dance, you know. And as far as the Zima, I know, but they drink it. I usally just keep a Zima bottle loaded with gin and tonic.)
Think of it as a guided moonbat safari.
As a professional southern baptist, I have years of experience.
TW: If one was looking for some strange, it ain’t gonna get any stranger than Sheehan’s ranch.
Jauhara- That’s your cousin!! Pinkham millinery is like, one of the last, best milliners in the whole US. I’m impressed.
Hey, that’s ok, Jeff, I’m sure your friend knows kung fu. I’m sure he can peacefully snatch the pebble from one’shand, or open up a can of serious whupass, as required. And play the flute.
The Google to the Village Hat Shot brings up an item they no longer sell. Try placing it in the basket and a different item comes up.
You’re getting an old item. I know, because I called yesterday.
I think if my store was named “Azhat”, I would change it.
Just saying.
You could try a plimoth plantation hat if desperate. They are cheap – 37 bucks. But you’d have to improvise(or purchse somewhere else) a headband.
For 89 bucks, you can have http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/page/H/PROD/hh/35-indian (very billy jack, with headband) through hats-in the-belfry. It’s made by a well-know theatrical hat maker, and it comes in custom hat sizes.
dirty billys hats has this high-crown fur-felt number. The nutria version will set you back about a 100 bucks.
Beaded Navajo hat bands here, if you want to dress up a hat with no hatband or a stupid hatband.
But, forgot to add, they are kind of pricey. Might as well get the Ebay hat as one of those hatbands.
Ooh, ooh, look at this 100 buck one at Dirty Billy’s hat’s. It’s a ringer, and a very good quality hat.
Ok, I guess that’s enough.
Stupid apostrophes.
Just to be clear, that last one is a totally different Dirty Billy’s hat.
Cool hats. Yay, I’ve been looking for a good china flat.
I’m no help with a Billy Jack hat – but if you ever need a pakol, let me know.
Make him wear a Rockies ball cap and like it.
wait…….that’s Oprah.
Hmmmm.
Ebay has one for under $90.
WOOL FELT – BILLY JACK Navajo Indian Reservation Hat
On the other hand I’ve learned more about hats than I think I’ve ever wanted to.
BTW the “Billy Jack” hat style is called either:
1. Open Crown Western
The “open crown” is a description of the crown, or top, of the hat that doesn’t have any creases.
2. Plan Indian Hat
Evidently when these hats were first sold to the plains indians they were shipped with an open crown, i.e. uncreased, and with a flat brim because this shape was the easiest to stack and ship in crates. It was assumed the final buyer would roll the brim and/or crease the crown himself though it seems that many indians didn’t care about rolling the brim or creasing the crown.
*shrug* in case anybody really cares.
Hmmmm.
Arrrgh.
“Plan” = “Plain”
sigh. coffee. more need.
Contact the Choctaw Museum in Choctaw, Miss. Or just hit a powwow. That kind of hat is traditional for the Southeastern (“Civilized”) tribes. And the Blackfeet of Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. And (I might be a little fuzzy here) the Hasidic Jews of New York City.
Tom on the rez.
TW: Don’t WANT ya to like us, but ya better f*ing respect us.
Our Website: http://www.pinkhammillinery.com
Our Location:
PINKHAM MILLINERY
515 SW Broadway (Morgan’s Alley)
Portland, Oregon 97205
Phone: 503.796.9385
I have one for sell on ebay!
Paintball guns are sometimes painfull when you are hit by a paintball*–
my paintball gun is made in germany and it is very good”’