crystal and i recently went on a road
trip and we took along with us these
awesome hats from american hat makers we
actually have one more and we want to
kind of just like talk to you about the
brand and share what we liked about it
and why we chose this brand as our
choice of hats for when we went on the
road we're traveling or even like when
we're at home these are like the hats
that we uh go to now yeah
uh i think they're really great hats um
finding a hat in particular is just very
hard um
especially if you're trying to look for
hats online because yeah it's like you
only get one chance
to try it on um a lot of them you can't
even return so it's like you're taking
this huge risk of ordering this hat
online and you want to most of the time
you want a good hat too yeah that fits
nicely on your head because if you get
one that's too cheap or you know not
i'm not gonna say too cheap but if
that's if they have if you get one
that's ill-fitted
um also sometimes you can't tell how the
material looks online you know because
you know
online is tricky you never know what it
really looks like it feels like so when
you when i want to when i purchase a hat
or when i was looking to purchase a hat
i wanted a brand that gave a really good
return policy or just an exchange policy
um and so american hat makers like i
really when i looked into them i was
like oh they have a pretty good exchange
policy and return policy if in the end
you know what i was like you know what i
don't like it you can return it within i
believe within 30 days
and
the only thing that they ask is that you
pay for the return shipping at seven
dollars which i don't think is bad
um because reasonable it's reasonable
plus because hats are actually pretty
expensive to ship because you have to
put it in a big box because you don't
want to bend it um so
yeah the bigger the box usually and i
know weight has something to do with it
too but the hats are light but in
general it's kind of expensive to ship
that cat so i think seven dollars is
pretty reasonable but the great thing
about them if you don't want to return
it and you like the material you like
the quality it just it just didn't quite
fit
you can return it as many times as you
want until you get the fit right and i
thought that was an amazing
exchange policy yeah yeah because other
brands i have kind of looked into it's
like you can get two times or just one
time it wasn't like an endless like as
many times as you want so
so they get it you know they get that um
pets are very important it's a unique
kind of fit to everybody so they want to
give their customers a satisfaction and
you know a right to have what they want
i mean you're paying you know a good
amount of money for a good hat so you
want it to be right
so this brand is actually made here in
the u.s uh they are they have been
around for a while i actually did not
know about them um they tend to make
hats i guess for like costume designers
and like so they've been around for a
while and they have a lot like a huge
inventory of like hats and like
different you know styles not just these
types but the hats that they had
previously it just wasn't my type and
then they recently launched a collection
called the wanderlust collection and
that is the type of hats that i really
like right now which is like hats like
these um so yeah so then i was like ooh
i gotta try i gotta try one of their
hats so i ended up you know well i got
two and then crystal got
one but we we share we share our clothes
so yeah so this is one of the hats that
um i got
or that we're sharing
so we took this we went recently went on
a cross-country road trip and we wore
these hats a lot a lot more than we
thought yeah yeah because we went to
austin we went to white sands national
park
and also a flag staff area where there
was like a national park there and also
some other things you could do but all
those places that we went to these hats
like matched everything that we wanted
to wear so it was great i really liked
it
yeah and i like how hats just add that
little bit of like i don't know spark to
a photo yeah definitely add something
else to it you know instead of just like
uh your normal typical day kind of
casual look this just has a little bit
more of a i don't know oh that's an
interesting photo yeah interesting video
with the hat so i i really am you know
i'm glad that we took these hats with us
on the road trip yeah so to talk a
little bit more about the quality um
when we received the package i was
actually pretty impressed with the
packaging because i have ordered hats in
the past which i actually ended up
returning where they just stuff it into
a box not even its shape so when when i
opened it up like the brim was bent or
the top part um was like folded and
weird i'm like why like
why would you even do that like that's
ruining the hat and yes they do say if
you steam it and you can shape it
yourself but i don't i'm i'm not good at
that and i could try but i want to wear
it when i get it and i don't want to
have to go around like messing around
trying to fix it so um what i liked
about them was that the packaging
actually had a cardboard
material in the hat so each hat when it
came in the package it was stuffed with
a shaper like this
in the hat so it won't get damaged or
like bent during shipping also on the
band here there was
styrofoam
and also plastic over it so that nothing
gets damaged and the box itself was like
a really thick box and it had like
crates in there and cushioning so that
nothing would get bent and i was just
like wow
this is above and beyond
like any type of shipping i think
another thing that i liked about these
hats is that they're adjustable so
i'm kind of in between sizes a small and
a medium
and
i've tried on hats where it's like okay
it smells a little bit too small and
medium's a little bit too big but
there's no in between it's like those
people who are like me
you're seven seven and a half or eight
and it's like always interchanging
depending on the brand um so that's why
i really liked these hats because inside
the band here
um the inner lining it's hidden and it's
actually a very nice material you can
actually tighten
there's a velcro here
you can actually tighten it and fit it
to your liking so i really like that
they were adjustable again i mean
if you don't like it even after
adjusting and you want to return it and
try another one that's totally optional
too but i like that you know if you want
to get it really really custom fit like
they have this option here
yeah that one has it too i think all all
the ones we got had these um
adjustable
bands on here and then to make it more
adjustable they sent like these belt
type of velcro things
that you could stick on the side of your
hat so it'll you know tighten it up even
more uh and they give you this nice
instruction booklet right here in the
front so they have is your hat too big
and so they'll give you some a standard
sweat liner a half size reducer and a
full size reducer and it gives you just
instructions on how to do it all
yeah and they really stand by their
quality i saw online that if for any
reason something happens to your hat
like maybe the lining fell off or
whatever their warranty is amazing so
they give an amazing warranty because
they i guess they really trust their
products but yeah that was another thing
that i noticed that i thought was great
that they had a really great um warranty
on it um so yeah so you can rest assure
that if something happens to it you
didn't just waste 100 some dollars
on a hat um because you know a hat is
one of those things where like
it's not like underwear right you don't
wear it every day
but you spend but you spend pretty good
money on it because i feel like most
hats i've looked at online are above 100
if you want to get a nice one um yeah
with pretty decent quality so you know
100 and you don't wear all the time is
you know it's a little bit pricey so i
get it i get it why
me and other people are hesitant to
spend you know to drop a hundred dollars
on a product that you're not going to
wear or use every day so it's nice that
you have that peace of mind that you
know if something does happen to it they
have a great warranty and also if it
doesn't fit you can return it or
exchange it for another size
so yeah so those are like one of the
main reasons why we like american hat
makers also we like the style obviously
like we're not gonna well style is
definitely what i look at first yeah
i like the way it fits yeah and then you
look at the quality and then you know
other things that come with it but yeah
definitely the style is always the key
of course because you want to look good
in your photos and your travel photos
and videos so
this style
we both agreed we really liked um and
they're coming out with like newer
styles too that candy's really
interested in yeah i actually just
ordered one during black friday so i'll
be getting another hat in the mail soon
there you go
i thought i'd just show you the other
hat that i got here it's like a very
simple like look actually it's kind of
frayed on right here on the um the band
and i like the leather
band that sits on top of it but um if
you're curious what sizes we're wearing
i know everyone's a different fit and
different size but if you are curious
what size we're wearing um i think these
are all size mediums yep medium medium
and medium i just i feel like with
medium there's more options like if you
want to wear it more on you know your
forehead or if you want it lean back
like this there's just more room to play
with with the medium personally for me
so that's why i end up always getting a
medium yeah and it says medium is a
57 centimeters yeah and if you go on
their website they have like a whole
sizing guide so you can go off of that
also if you go on youtube there's plenty
of videos out there on like you know how
to you know measure your head for hats
and stuff like that so
traveling with hats could be a little
bit tricky uh luckily we have some
solutions for you we did a packing video
a long time ago actually it was when we
first started our blog like close to it
uh
showing you how to pack your hat in a
suitcase and basically what you do is
you put your hat in the middle of the
suitcase and then you just kind of pack
everything around it and then you can
stuff things inside the
inside of the hat so stuff it like this
and then put it down like this and then
put your clothing or whatever around and
that works pretty well i've done it
several times i've done it all the time
any time i have to take a hat with me
that's what i do and it keeps the form
of the hat you know pretty intact i
would say most of the time yeah so
that's one way to do it another way
another way um if you know on a road
trip and you don't you're not like
limited to bags you can take i actually
use this for storage too when i when i'm
not using my hats is a hat bag and i
love this hat bag it's
really well made it's from cow pack
and it's got a zipper in here or a pouch
in here if you want to store extra stuff
which i do that's where i put you know
these hat sizers and it also comes with
a strap so if i want to carry it it's
easy to carry but i can fit about two to
three hats in here but anything over
that it starts to get a little bit like
too tight and i don't want to ruin the
hats if you're the type of person
doesn't want to hang your hat on the
wall you know this is great for storage
and that's what i use it for when i'm
not traveling and then when i'm on road
trips i also use this it just i just
like how you know it's a cool bag and
it kind of reminds me of like you know
how much old movies you know women are
caring like they're they're a hot
yeah it's definitely like a i feel like
almost like a novelty bag but i've
always wanted one so i'm glad i finally
got one um so yeah so this is what i
have for my hats so another way to carry
your hat which i when i first saw this
last year i thought it was genius it's
by lindsay albanese um she actually but
i kind of looked into her she is a
stylist and
just like me there are times when i want
to take my hat with me but then like you
know all of a sudden like i don't want
to wear right now or it's too windy and
i want to take it off and you're just
like stuck holding it with you and it's
so annoying because you have nowhere to
put it so she invented this and i'm like
oh my gosh this is great so this easily
opens up right here and then you put it
onto any like bag handle like that and
it's a mag so it's magnetic right here
and you just basically
put it put your hat in between the
magnets
and that's how you get to carry it now
you may be thinking like oh i can just
like make something easy like that which
i have i tried to use like i made like
myself these little um clips to put on
the hat but you know what happened it
left like a dent in my hat like a little
crease and i'm like oh no
so i ruined one of my hats that way so
this magnetic closure is perfect because
it's flat and it's super strong
some hats if they're not thick you can
fit more than one but these hats are
actually pretty thick so i was only able
to fit one on these but this is great
for the beach too if you're going to the
beach and you have a beach bag they also
make clips like for suitcases i usually
use this clip on my book bag so when i'm
not wearing the hat i just you know
throw this clip on my book bag on the
back and actually it looks kind of cute
too with your hat hanging on the back
but
amazing
invention she actually has a patent on
this too so yeah so this is like those
are three different ways um you can
travel with your hats so if you're in
search for a hat we highly recommend
american hat makers they're wonderful
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