Ok...Thanks. This is the Panama I just got.
OK great. You got the pic up too. There is a thread called new hats, and another called the panama canal. Free free to post your new hat there as well. Welcome to the Lounge!
Ok...Thanks. This is the Panama I just got.
When a person is a round or regular oval can they wear a long oval hat of the exact same size?Will it conform to their head shape?
What exactly defines one (or is it maybe not an exact definition? I seem to recall that a "true" Panama hat was made there, though I am pretty sure that is not the definition used here...
An authentic "Panama hat" is woven in Ecuador from a particular type of natural straw.
Back to Panama's for a question if I could. What exactly defines one (or is it maybe not an exact definition? I seem to recall that a "true" Panama hat was made there, though I am pretty sure that is not the definition used here...).
Was looking at the Akubra Reef hat (as well as the Range hat). Both are woven from natural material (hemp, I just can't convince myself that the polypropylene Panama hats Akubra makes are something I'd want). Are these (Range and Reef) hats considered Panama's? How would they be for a Summer/Tropical hat?
Hi There fellas.
I'm new to the lounge.
I get good deals in the UK on ebay. I get a lot of old vintage hats from British manufacturers though. This is sadly because the felt is way better on anything that you can by new. But I pick vintage Locks and Battersbys, and if I'm lucky enough a Stetson. I get these all for only a few pounds and in quite good condition. I envy the ebay customers in the states though, where hatmaking is still practiced and a day to day basis, a re-block for instance is a little thing it seems there. I couldn't find anyone in the UK and so I started to block my own just so I get what I wanted out of the hat!.
I saw an open road stetson go for a little over 20 pounds the other day, vintage and boxed in a shop in Birmingham - just advertised as "old hat" it was in really good condition - but I was working and couldn't stop. I like the style very-very much.
But here's my question.
Does anyone know how to get leather sweatbands - location - address - it's completely none existent in the U.K.
I would add that for marketing purposes, especially on E Bay, everyone selling a straw hat in a fedora shape seems to call them "Panama hats." A real Panama hat has a fine weave so the texture is more like fabric than stiff straws. You can always tell the difference by a close-up photo. Price-wise, straw hats go for $25-100, and Panama hats for a lot more. Prices can get ridiculous, but you don't have to pay top dollar to get an outstanding hat. Figure to pay no less than $200, probably more, for a good one, unless you snag a deal on E bay or at some secondhand store, where they don't know what's what.
Fairly coarse and inexpensive hats are also woven in Ecuador of paja toquilla and are very much genuine Panama hats. They are simply inexpensive ones. For that matter some straw hats (not Panama) can be finely woven and very expensive. The "panamaness" of a hat relates to its country of origin and material, not its price.
The "panamaness" of a hat relates to its country of origin
There are fine panama hats in Colombia and Peru (the borders came much later than the hats!).
1867And yet one who is fairly knowledgeable in the subject of panama hats states in this thread:
has any one heard of this hat ? richman brothers black stinky and does any one have a photo of one?
A black stinky ... ?!