NEW ORLEANS — It’s been called the newsboy, the Jay Gatsby, the Big Apple, the Ivy, the eight panel, even the Lundberg Stetson. But the classic flat cap, popular with 19th-century longshoremen and ...

Stetson cowboy hats and Texas go together like peas and carrots. The countless Texans who own one probably don’t know the origins of the brand can be traced back, not to the Lone Star State, but ...

In 1860, an ailing East Coast hat maker named John Batterson Stetson headed west to mine for gold. He didn’t strike it rich, but he ended up with something much more valuable: the design for the first ...

Pam Fields, chief executive officer of Stetson Worldwide, wears hats three or four times a week. After all, she has access to what she calls "the greatest lending library of hats"—the showroom of her ...