From what I have heard, keeping your hat in it's original, clean,shaped condition has been acknowledged as the right thing to do, but I recently came across something very interesting.
"Ike Kerr filled the place of cook,a tinner by trade and a natured well disposed fellow- He was nicknamed Sibley from the shape of his hat which had been used to hold water so often that it became the shape of a funnel, and the various uses this article was put to, such as dusting the ashes out of skillets and as a guard against hot handles,etc.,made it useful as well as ornamental..." [pg. 37 , Ten Months in the Orphan Brigade by Conrad Wise Chapman, edited by Ben Bassham]
"Ike Kerr filled the place of cook,a tinner by trade and a natured well disposed fellow- He was nicknamed Sibley from the shape of his hat which had been used to hold water so often that it became the shape of a funnel, and the various uses this article was put to, such as dusting the ashes out of skillets and as a guard against hot handles,etc.,made it useful as well as ornamental..." [pg. 37 , Ten Months in the Orphan Brigade by Conrad Wise Chapman, edited by Ben Bassham]
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