How to stretch a hat without a stretcher

Sometimes you are away on adventures and your hat shrinks - because of rain, sun, misuse etc. There is an old way of stretching them that will get you out of a pickle.

Place it over your knee and give it a hard pull. Make sure your Panama is soft and moist and it will just stretch. It is an old trick that people have been using for hundreds of years.

Have a look here :

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