How To Make A Hat Size Larger
Usually you can stretch a hat to about 14 to 12 sizes larger depending on the hat.
How to make a hat size larger. Use this simple math formula to determine the diameter of your hat and stitc. Simply place them under the band and fold the band back on top of the sizing tape. Mens hats and caps are generally sized in types.
This method of stretching hats can be used on a fitted fedora trilby or other designer hat to make it fit comfortably on your head. A commercially available hat stretcher would be the best option but a soccer ball basketball or bowl would work as well. One size fits all hats will generally fit heads with a circumference of 215 inches to 23 inches or a mediumlarge.
It is not a favorite thing to do. Of course even I would be hesitant to attempt this feat. Lightly spray water on your straw cowboy hat.
Now try the hat on and see if where you have placed the strips feels comfortable or gets the job done. And I do not have the right size hat blocks my largest are size 23. The average adult hat size is between 53 and 58 centimeters.
Perhaps the easiest way to get your hat down to size is using hat tape also called hat size reducer. Leave the hat on the ball until it dries. Step 4 Before we make any semi-permanent size modification to the hat place the strips of sizing tape where the hat is largest around your head.
Unlike double-sided tape which could ruin the sweatband by tearing at the material hat sizing tape only has adhesive on one side with a foam strip on the other. Try on your stretched hat. Pull the hat gradually over a round object slightly larger than your head.