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  1. PabloElFlamenco

    Visited Cuenca and bought a hat or two...

    Preliminary remark: no pictures! If some one could point out to me how to get the photo's from my computer to this article...?... thanks (sorry for being a nitwit). Irène and I went to Ecuador on a three-week holiday, taking locally available bus transport to visit varying places of interest...
  2. PabloElFlamenco

    Jams World shirts, Hawaiian

    I've discovered a liking for Hawaiian shirts, generally garish. In my searches I came upon the brand "Jams World", and was very impressed by some of their designs. Especially the colorful ones, some of which remind me of the colors of Gauguin or even Vincent van Gogh or Renoir: beautiful...
  3. PabloElFlamenco

    Going to Cuenca

    Hi, I've booked flights into Ecuador for February 2016. Whilst Montecristi has the best reputation for hats, I just can't fit in a visit to this small town, the fact is I can't justify it to my wife to spend twice a full day in a bus to go there. A shame, but a justifiable one. No such...
  4. PabloElFlamenco

    It's a different world over here...

    Just a general observation: during weekdays, I now live in the Netherlands, in the southern smallish city of Breda. When the weather is good (dry...), I go to work on my bicycle. Holland (another name for this country) mostly has geographic resemblance to a pancake, and many people use the...
  5. PabloElFlamenco

    A question about the panama hat...

    I address this question to those "in the know" about Montecristi and Cuenca crafted hats. I think I pretty much got the informative side of those wonderful hats covered, the meaning of weaves per inch, the desire that the weaves be as consistently "regular" as possible, etc. Sometimes, I...
  7. PabloElFlamenco

    Would a man be buried with his Stetson 100?

    My wife is an avid reader (in the French language) and sometimes I ask her about what she's reading, to which she sometimes comments. So, this morning, she told me how she'd just read about a grandfather who'd passed away in a retirement home and they moved him back to, I believe, Seligman AZ...
  8. PabloElFlamenco

    On the desire of adding a wind trolley to a Stetson 100

    My absolute favorite hat is a Stetson 100, which I acquired at very reasonable cost but had to send to Optimo in Chicago for cleaning and recreasing (!), as well as resizing, necessitating a new sweatband. As a result, the hat became a personal best, but the back-and-forth transport and...
  9. PabloElFlamenco

    I contstantly keep changing bashes on some of my hats...

    Steam, steam, steam away... I just finished un-optimoing my artificially optimoed Panama Bob hat. Steam, pull, push... I even found that, by pulling both ends of a section of weave in-between (two) sets of thumb and forefinger (or, is that the index finger?), that section curls upwards...
  10. PabloElFlamenco

    Nice intent, frustrating result...

    Both my sons returned yesterday from a 7000 mile drivethrough of the western US. And they thought of me by bringing me a birthday gift: a brand new Stetson (Sovereign) fedora hat. Size 7-1/2. My size is 7-1/8. Bummer! So, after consulting them, and convincing them that there is no way to...
  11. PabloElFlamenco

    Smoky the bear...is that what he's called?

    Memory does strange things; like ...disappear! I won a "park ranger" Nutria Quality hat on eBay, and it's like new. In fact, it stinks of what I believe to be tobacco and the sweatband practically desintegrated upon touching it, it's already been thrown away with one single rip... But...
  13. PabloElFlamenco

    Casa Cuencana

    Uuuuhhhh....hombre...¡fiebra toquilla! Toquilla fever! The so-called "Panama" hat is a complex subject, with many variables, not the least of them being the "Monte Cristo" as against the "Cuenca" distinction. I would herewith like to open a Cuenca showcase, for all to join and display...
  14. PabloElFlamenco

    Now I'm really cheating on my wife!

    ...who said she's strangle me if I bought another hat. I did, and saved the situation by stowing it away as future "Christmas gift". But... I bought a second "strangle you" hat! A Stetson Nutria quality (park ranger?) hat. There is no ribbon. Now, I have a nice horsehair band, tied up...
  15. PabloElFlamenco

    Gosh. I love hats.

    Glad to be back. This is one hell of a forum: hardly any in-fighting (is that ever important!!!), not strictly 1000% exclusively about hats....I like you guys/gals. Had to say this. Paul
  16. PabloElFlamenco

    500 kilometers on foot... ¡with hat!

    Hi all, I've been absent from the board for a long time, but now I think I have something relevant to relate. I recently walked from Salamanca to Santiago de Compostella (both in Spain), a total of about 500 kilometers which took me 22 days to do. I'd long wondered ..which hat?.. and opted to...
  17. PabloElFlamenco

    Lee Fifth Avenue "Gold Label", "Beaver Nap", Fedora

    I would like to introduce my newest hat. It is, in my view, a true big-crowned American fedora. Bought from eBay, out of Dearborn, Michigan. It's marked or labelled 7-1/8, "Beaver Nap Twenty", "Gold Label" and indeed carries a $20.00 original price tag, and was originally sold at The...
  19. PabloElFlamenco

    Mayser homburg being played with...

    Hi, I'd like today to introduce you to my German Mayser homburg, which I picked up from a 2nd hand clothes store for €10.00 It is in practically new condition, very, very black in color and, in its original function, a very severe, formal hat. Since it's been languishing away in one of my...
  20. PabloElFlamenco

    Peruvian (Ecuadorian?) hats?

    In summer days, the streets of our old towns are filled with tourists and, here and there, you will see South-American street hawkers stalling their wares on the sidewalk. These include pan-flutes, colorful woollen or cotton clothes and, quite prominently, black hats. When our sons were...
  21. PabloElFlamenco

    Hat case with self-made cardboard insert...

    Yesterday in the Open Road thread, I mentioned I'd made a cardboard (hat-stabilizing) insert for the American Tourister (fiberglass and ally?) train case I won on eBay, and promised Carter some pictures. Here's they are: The hat is kept centered in the case by a horizontal...
  22. PabloElFlamenco

    Homage to Red Skelton

    Yesterday evening, New Year's eve, I was a bit ill with flu and we decided to stay home. Sitting a bit sadly in front of the TV, zapping through the programs directed at those many who find or have nothing better but to gawk at Bayerische beerfeste, Italian donne, Spanish glitz and French...
  23. PabloElFlamenco

    Hat making...beginner's course

    I just sent off a message to my lady hatter, asking to participate in her february hat-making course, which advertises as "make your own felt hat completely by hand on the block", five three-hour classes. I will keep you informed of the course of events... Personally, I hope to learn the...

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