surprise_i'm_armed wrote:
When I wear my 4" brim white Stetson, which is often, I am irked when people call me Tex, or cowboy.
This is Texas, and to think that my hat is so unique in the DFW Metroplex that these comments are made
tells me that too many of the "city" Texans I live amongst have forgotten their roots...or that transplants
don't even have a clue that they are in Texas.
SIA
There is definitely a divide from the eastern part of the metroplex, and the western side. Nobody looks twice at a cowboy hat in Ft. Worth, and from there all the way to El Paso, but a lot of non-Texans have moved in and still think that we stand out from the crowd. There is also the issue of recent transplants buying tourist trap hats made in China, who look ridiculous in my opinion.
Lyle Lovett says it pretty well:
