Nobody Wanted His Handmade Hats — Then Clint Eastwood Tried One On and Everything Changed

Kanab, Utah, October 1975. Clint Eastwood was in the middle of shooting The Outlaw Josey Wales when a costume house sent a crate of factory-stamped hats and told him they were "close enough." He walked off the set without a word, borrowed a pickup and drove into town. At the far end of the last row of a small-town harvest market sat a 72-year-old hatter with forty-one handmade hats and not one sale in five hours. A man two aisles over was selling factory hats for six dollars. On a separate stand sat one hat he would never sell. What happened at that folding table over the next forty minutes ended up on movie screens all over the world. 📺 In this video: The crate of hats that sent Clint off the set "Close enough." Forty-one hats, five hours, zero buyers "You'll want to go up an eighth. Long oval." Fifty-one years of steam, felt and lamplight The hat with the beaded band that wasn't for sale The moment the old hatter recognized him The hat Clint bought for himself in 1964 "I don't want a cheaper version of the right thing." The hatbox that arrived on set The three-word note The phone call from his granddaughter The hatbox that arrived in Alberta sixteen years later Subscribe for more unforgettable stories, rare moments, and legendary encounters from the life and career of Clint Eastwood and the greatest legends in Hollywood history. #ClintEastwood #TheOutlawJoseyWales #Unforgiven #Kanab #LittleHollywood #Handmade #Craftsmanship #ClassicWesterns #HollywoodLegends #ClintEastwoodStories #InspirationalStories