- Title: UNITED STATES: FAMOUS STETSON HAT COMPANY FORCED TO CLOSE BY DARE HEADED MEN.
- Date: 29th January 1971
- Summary: 1. CU stills Tom Mix, John Wayne, Churchill, Roosevelt wearing Stetson products 0.13 2. MV & CU streets (men with no hats) 0.19 3. MV & GV Hat factory showing thousands of hats on work benches (2 shots) 0.35 4. MV & CU hat being shaped and steam pressed (2 shots) 0.43 5. CU hats being turned on machine (2 shots) 0.53 6. MV wom
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- Location: PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVAD5EOEUMI7TWCUYXECVBZKNFV8
- Story Text:The Stetson Hat Company, whose name became world-famous on the ten-gallon hats worn by generations of film cowboys (and quite a few of their real-life counterparts), is to close down its main factory in Philadelphia. The move follows a desist our drop in the number of Americans who wear hats.
Stetson hate have been worn by many world-figures during the company's hundred-year history. At the peak before World War Two the main plant at Philadelphia was employing a huge workforce to produce 60,000 hats a day.
But after the war, a more casual style came in and many men took to going bare-headed. In the sixties long-hair dealt the hatters another blow. They fought back with new styles and fabrics, but the decline continued.
Two years ago workers at Stetson's agreed to forego a pay rise in an attempt to delay the closure. Now they must seek other work. As one woman employee commented with obvious regret: - Copyright Holder: REUTERS - SOURCE TO BE VERIFIED
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