Scott O'Farrell is the owner of O'Farrell's Hat Shop in Santa Fe, NM. Using a device that measure the customer's unique head size and shape, O'Farrell starts the process of making a custom cowboy hat that starts in the neighborhood of $1000. Past customers include Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Tilley and Russell Crowe.
The hats are made at the little building around the corner from the main square in Santa Fe that houses the showroom upstairs and the work space downstairs. The people who make the hats are craftsmen in their own right and it can take up to 12 weeks to make one hat.
I always wore Resistol hats when I was riding my horse, Mickey in Little Britches Rodeos in the 1970's. These hats are almost too special to wear while calf-daubing or pole bending, but if you lose it in the arena, I'll bet O'Farrells would get the hoof prints off it.
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