how to stretch out a fitted hat???

the standard method for my old sweated-in baseball hats is to cut the back seam, vertically, along the sweatband. Start small, and eventually the hat will be the right size. This method also preserves the "fit" and "sit" of the hat on my head, which is important to keeping a hat "in the rotation".

If it's a wool hat, you may have some luck washing the hat in the dishwasher or washing machine (I've done both), and then wearing it as it dries. Sometimes, just getting all the nastiness out of the sweatband allows the hat to move easier.
 
If you have a tea kettle, you can steam it and then stretch it until it dries. If no tea kettle, improvise until you can get a stream of steam. Failing that, go to the nearest place that sells a lot of cowboy hats and ask them to steam it and stretch. Since you didn't buy it from them, you will probably have to pay them something.
 
Probably wouldn't have to pay but the hat stretcher usually takes tips.

At Cavenders anyway.
 
I'm not a big fan of the "kapkleaner". My bills are more curved than that, and if you wash the cardboard of a bill in that flat shape, they just never seem to go back to the way they were.

I prefer to put a baseball in the bill, and wrap the **** out of it with twine (it won't stretch much). Wash it like that, and nothing goes anywhere, and the bill stays curved.
 
I tried to stretch out a hat once by standing on the inside/back of the cap and pulling on the bill. The entire bill ripped off and now I have a beanie that's too small.
 
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