City Hatters Hat Stretcher

An easy way to look after any leather sweat-banded hat, it enables you maintain the size of your hat or to stretch shrunken hats up to 1 or 2 hat sizes if required. Made of soft balsa wood to absorb moisture and wick away odors and sweat, this ingenious gadget is essential to protect you investment, prolonging the life of your hat. Suitable for hats sized 55-61 HOW TO USE: TO PREVENT SHRINKAGE; after wear slip our hat stretcher into the crown, making contact only with the leather sweatband only (this is the part which hold the size of a hat). Gently twist to a firm, but not forceful pressure. TO RESTORE SIZE: Apply steam all around the sweatband (or wear your hat to get some heat and sweat into the leather) slip our hat stretcher into the crown, making contact witht he leather sweatband only, and twist to a firm pressure ( you'll know you're in the right zone when you hear the leather creaking.) Leave for 1 - 2 days. Repeat process as required. Note; Re-sizing will only be successfull if leather is still soft, and supple. Attempting to stretch dried-out or hardened leather will result in breakage or snapping of the sweatband. Re-sizing will only be sucessful on hats that have shrunk. Attempting to stretch a new hat thats is too small will not provide permament results.