After water proofing and the hat is dry, we re-block it, hand-shaping it into it's shape. Then after its all done and it looks like it's going to keep, that's when we put the sweat band in it. The sweat band is made out of Taffeta. Taffeta is a man made fiber that passes sweat real well, so it's not like your wearing a plastic bag on your head.

Finally it goes to the labeling and banding department. Here we place items on the hat such as the stampede strap, conchas, piping and leather fringes.

If there is any problem with a hat that has been sold the first thing Shady Brady does is, ask for the hat to be sent back to the factory. We want to see it, and John Brady personally dissects it. Then we can correct anything we did wrong. We also place on every hat a "How to keep your hat good" card along with warranty information, care and feeding, like how to reshape your hat if you wanted to and so on.