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Panama Hat articles from the web

HungaryTom

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody

Quoting Bill Cosby (Actor and Comedian)

Montecristi fino

http://www.manufactum.ch/Produkt/183034/1410616/1/PanamahutMontecristi.html

You find the criticism of the consumers of Manufactum, described as an enterprise successfully selling products being beautiful, unnecessary and expensive...:

Typologie des Biedersinns
Gestatten: Der neue deutsche Spie?üer
http://www.stern.de/politik/panoram...atten:-Der-Spie%DFer/606482.html?p=2&nv=ct_cb
Quote from Manufactum site embedded in the article:

Montecristi-Panamahats (629 Euro, "from fibers of the Toquilla-Palm Carludovica palmata; one weaver works for 2-3 months on a hat ").
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A nice tradition of panama hat wearing criticism - with talc powder

Carnaval Monday: Los Indianos 04 February 2008

http://www.secret-tenerife.com/2008/02/carnaval-monday-los-indianos.html
http://www.islalapalma.com/en/events/index.html?p=losindianos&s=carnival
Tag der Emigranten (Dia de Los Indianos)
http://www.trivago.de/santa-cruz-de...events-feste/tag-der-emigranten-707686/bilder

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevQZL7OdPM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlKrLlEVbPU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4GjYrzcGA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtgWvP8z38k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZiQQjA5lAQ&feature=related


http://www.agroturs.com/fotos/cartel dia de los indianos.jpg
 

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SADDAM HUSSEIN

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20021218.phtml
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HATS?
The guy loves hats, and why not? He can afford them. Dave holds up a series of photos as we inspect the many hats of the crazed dictator. We see him with a:
-beret
-fedora
-rabbit cossack
-milan crease
-the cufia
-a plantation Panama hat
-the aficionado Pamana hat
-and the visor.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...2A15751C1A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
ATTACK ON IRAQ: THE OVERVIEW; This Time, Little Damage Is to Be Seen in Baghdad
In some he is jowly and patriarchal, in others dashing and movie-star handsome. One shows him earnest and looking very young, dressed in a blue suit as if posing for a high school yearbook picture. Another depicts him as the benevolent father, a wedding ring on his finger and an adorable little girl on his knee.
In one of the oddest, he grins widely and wears a Panama hat, sunglasses and a white shirt open to the waist, looking as if he should be sipping an exotic drink at a tropical resort.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jul/04/iraq1
Saddam Hussein's portraits. They were on every street corner, on every highway, in every office and teashop. The face of the dictator was ubiquitous.
In some pictures he appeared as a simple Arab farmer, in others as an Islamic warrior on a white steed. In several he looked like a 1970s football manager in his white panama hat and a sheepskin coat.
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Hungarian Dictator Rákosi Mátyás - his terror regime triggered the 1956 revolution
He is pictured in the (in)famous Csillag prison in Szeged during his return there in 1945 where he spent earlier some time as illegal communist during his arrestment years between 1925 and 1940.
http://www.delmagyar.hu/common/forumkep/205/B2044359.jpg

Panama hat &Politics vol 2.
http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/3367/72/
Panama hat salesman resigns after admitting he met Brian Burke - OZ related stuff for Cookie and other friends from that half.



DANDYSM & Panama hat
http://www.dandyism.net/?p=205
“The Red Shoes,” the 1948 cinematic masterpiece by Powell & Pressburger. Lermontov is the imperious impresario of a ballet troupe, and struggles to maintain his dandy aplomb under a growing obsession with his prima ballerina.
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ROS/SPT8162~Put-on-Your-Red-Shoes-Posters.jpg
„Boris Lermontov is impeccable in tails or a 6 x 2 double-breasted dinner jacket. And each time the working Lermontov is seen in daytime he wears the same uniform: a 6 x 2 double-breasted suit of deepest blue-black, a double-cuffed white shirt with a narrow spread and long points, a pale champagne-colored tie and gold cufflinks. When the company takes up residence in Monte Carlo, his light Panama hat, sunglasses and black-and-white spectator shoes add notes of Riviera chic to the signature look without undercutting its formality."

http://www.dandyism.net/?p=801
Who’s The Dandy? — Sperelli vs. Chesterfield

Just not for everyone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJETszZGoE&mode=related&search=

Jazzman
http://www.saxworx.com/jazzman.jpg

Snoop Dogg
http://socialitelife.buzznet.com/images/2007/10/snoop_dogg_101207_02.jpg

Busta Rhymes
http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2007/01/04/busta-rhymes.jpg

Andy Garcia
http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1082.jpg
http://v9.indiewire.com/ipop/TELLgarciaband.JPG

This thread would be incomplete without this photo:
http://www.nazbookfest.com/2005/assets/tommiller.jpg
Tom Miller

Driving Miss Daisy
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=77165&rendTypeId=4

Morgan Freeman
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2005_An_Unfinished_Life/an_unfinished_life_003.jpg

Francis Ford Coppola
http://www.interiority.com/wp-content/uploads/francis_ford_coppola.jpg

Roman Polanski Chinatown 1974
http://spanish.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1387/Mptv/1387/5435_0121.jpg.html?hint=nm0000591
http://spanish.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1387/Mptv/1387/5435_0122.jpg.html?hint=tt0071315
http://spanish.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1387/Mptv/1387/5435_0120.jpg.html?hint=tt0071315
 

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Prince Charles III - Panama hats in Mostar
http://www.gen-eng.florence.it/starimost/00_main/inaug/inaug_press.htm
http://www.gen-eng.florence.it/starimost/00_main/inaug/crowd7.jpg
http://www.gen-eng.florence.it/starimost/00_main/inaug/crowd6.jpg

Panama hat on top of statesmen
http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/BushFoxHarper.jpg
At a recent summit in Cancun the Presidents of the United States and Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada met to discuss trade and left without much to show for the experience.

Panamas&Science
http://www.edge.org/documents/press/images/focus1.jpg
http://www.edge.org/documents/press/focus.e.html

Borsalino
http://www.italchambermelb.com.au/Portals/0/Images/BORSALINO-Montecristi-LR.jpg
http://www.beauchapeau.com/images/Borsalino.jpg

Kirsten Dunst
http://trend911.com/category/marc-jacobs/

Vintage
http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/copy_of_hills/track_files/image006.jpg

Short articles
http://www.lovemarks.com/nomination/1091
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/the_last_panama.php
http://www.economy-point.org/p/panama-hat.html

Vienna hatter
http://www.szaszi.com/en/panama.htm

Prince Philip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/690000/images/_694374_philip150.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/asia-pacific/694374.stm

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/citizenkanecup.jpg
http://www.newsongsforold.co.uk/Harry 3/Buchanan.jpg

Tennis
http://www.findonvillage.com/p0409_douglas_tennis_0136.jpg

MONET, Claude
http://www.fondation-monet.com/images/MONET/ZOOM.gif
http://www.fondation-monet.com/images/MONET/assis.gif

Adolphe Menjou
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0qaye/...lderpictures/adolphe_menjou-carole_landis.jpg

California Gold Rush - whether it is a panama?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Panning_on_the_Mokelumne.jpg

Liz Danielewicz - this is definitely one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/image_galleries/liz_danielewicz_gallery.shtml?8
 

Vilhat

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Hello -

I have been looking through this thread - Panama Hat articles from the web -and wonder it's okay to post my own Panama Hat articles from the web?

Here goes:

Panama Hats: Determining Quality
http://www.villagehatshop.com/panama_hats_quality.html


Things To Know When Purchasing An Unblocked Montecristi Fino
http://www.villagehatshop.com/panama_montecristi_fino_letter.html

General Introductory Info:
http://www.panamas.com

Short Reviews of Books about Panama Hats:
http://www.villagehatshop.com/books_on_hats.html

I hope these add to the accumulated information.
This is great!

- Fred
 

HungaryTom

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Vilhat said:
Hello -

I have been looking through this thread - Panama Hat articles from the web -and wonder it's okay to post my own Panama Hat articles from the web?

Here goes:

Panama Hats: Determining Quality
http://www.villagehatshop.com/panama_hats_quality.html


Things To Know When Purchasing An Unblocked Montecristi Fino
http://www.villagehatshop.com/panama_montecristi_fino_letter.html

General Introductory Info:
http://www.panamas.com

Short Reviews of Books about Panama Hats:
http://www.villagehatshop.com/books_on_hats.html

I hope these add to the accumulated information.
This is great!

- Fred

Fred,

You have honored this thread.

Thank you
 

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Panama hats and Polo
http://www.meadowbrookpolo.com/history.htm

“The Panama hat and white flannel trousers survived among the males, although it is September, and a lot of the gals clung to their sports clothes.”

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/image_galleries/fairtrade_fashion_show_gallery.shtml?36

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/photo_galleries/3894591.stm

Fairtrade show
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/graphics/2007/09/10/thakoon.jpg

Johnny Depp jets to Japan for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 premiere http://shinymedia.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/23/johnny_depp.jpg

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2006/05/22/panama360.jpg
http://www.ladatco.com/Ecuador/EC_CUE_Hats_2-s.jpg
http://www.flamencoshop.com/hats/images/panama_hat_refPAN33.jpg
http://www.danshamptons.com/content/hamptonstyle/june_07_2/images/arden/Arden4.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/richards1052/image/19056208
http://blessley.net/Travel/104tour/images/AricaLimaManta/Mantahat.jpg
http://www.coastwatch.com.au/assets/rabbit2.gif
http://www.pilotguides.com/images/content/tv_shows/tv presenters/megan_panamahat150x200.jpg
http://www.rggs.qld.edu.au/images/disp_uniform.jpg
http://www.arniesvintagecostumers.com/1920smens/1920sm04.jpg
http://www.friendsofthemain.org.uk/Old pics/cross.jpg
http://www.photoseek.com/97BZE-P01-16-Butterfly-hat.jpg
http://hat.xber.com/Products_images/Hat_body/20037161152350.jpg
http://www.movie-montage.com/image/376.php#image
http://www.movie-montage.com/image/375.php#image
http://www.phildobby.co.uk/images/HAT.jpg
http://www.jereva.com/galapagos/hat.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/2092837614_2ca4f35bd9_b.jpg
http://www.patrickjones.com/worksamples/LaBamba.pdf

Brideshead Dismantled: Auctioning Sir John Gielgud's Memories http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/arts/04ARTS.html?ex=1205125200&en=490f90a20d86bcef&ei=5070
This topic is a repeater but here you can see his auctioned hat.

Lindsay Lohan
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/621/lindsaylohan6154mr.jpg

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Cruise Critic
http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=296277#post5799856
http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=571292#post10595589

Any fans of Panama hats?
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57497#post387240

Panama hats in Mexico City
http://www.thetravelforum.com/t427347.html#post3166062
Panama hat or similar
http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/thread22192.html
 

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New stories

People Talk: Gary White, custom hatter to the stars
By Jane Kwiatkowski
Updated: 03/16/08 1:50 PM
http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/300671.html
Gary, you are the man
http://media.buffalonews.com/smedia...26621-MI0001.standalone.prod_affiliate.50.jpg

The Most Fashionable Hat Trends for 2008
The Fedora Makes a Comeback!
By Sabah Karimi, published Jan 18, 2008
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/540725/the_most_fashionable_hat_trends_for.html

The genuine article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2006/may/22/shoppingtrips?page=2

Panama
Der Panamahut
http://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/projekte/index.php?/projekte/41_2171_DEU_HTML.php

Nina Lizell-Der mann mit de Panamahut -songtext
http://www.magistrix.de/lyrics/Nina Lizell/Der-Mann-Mit-Dem-Panamahut-131150.html
Priceless refrain: La la la la la la la la la

Friday, July 21, 2006
On The Street.... Via Manzoni, Milan
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4686/1648/400/Via Manzoni.jpg

Monday, January 21, 2008
Panama Hat Palm
http://cityinagarden-jyoti.blogspot.com/2008/01/panama-hat-palm.html

Panama Hat / Chapéu Panamá / Sombrero Jipijapa / Chapeaux
http://www.flickr.com/groups/panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mechworx/2283310569/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brancadeneeeve/2329711596/in/pool-panamahat/

ANNOUNCEMENT: IF ANYONE HAS SEEN A PANAMA HAT PHOTO OF HEMINGWAY PLEASE POST IT HERE! HE IS ALWAYS MENTIONED AS ONE OF THE FAMOUS PANAMA HAT WEARERS BUT I COULD NOT FIND A SINGLE PHOTO-YET.
 

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An 8 3/6ths Topper! yikes

HungaryTom said:
People Talk: Gary White, custom hatter to the stars
By Jane Kwiatkowski
Updated: 03/16/08 1:50 PM
http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/300671.html
Gary, you are the man
http://media.buffalonews.com/smedia...26621-MI0001.standalone.prod_affiliate.50.jpg

The Most Fashionable Hat Trends for 2008
The Fedora Makes a Comeback!
By Sabah Karimi, published Jan 18, 2008
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/540725/the_most_fashionable_hat_trends_for.html

The genuine article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2006/may/22/shoppingtrips?page=2

Panama
Der Panamahut
http://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/projekte/index.php?/projekte/41_2171_DEU_HTML.php

Nina Lizell-Der mann mit de Panamahut -songtext
http://www.magistrix.de/lyrics/Nina Lizell/Der-Mann-Mit-Dem-Panamahut-131150.html
Priceless refrain: La la la la la la la la la

Friday, July 21, 2006
On The Street.... Via Manzoni, Milan
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4686/1648/400/Via Manzoni.jpg

Monday, January 21, 2008
Panama Hat Palm
http://cityinagarden-jyoti.blogspot.com/2008/01/panama-hat-palm.html

Panama Hat / Chap?©u Panam?° / Sombrero Jipijapa / Chapeaux
http://www.flickr.com/groups/panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mechworx/2283310569/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brancadeneeeve/2329711596/in/pool-panamahat/

ANNOUNCEMENT: IF ANYONE HAS SEEN A PANAMA HAT PHOTO OF HEMINGWAY PLEASE POST IT HERE! HE IS ALWAYS MENTIONED AS ONE OF THE FAMOUS PANAMA HAT WEARERS BUT I COULD NOT FIND A SINGLE PHOTO-YET.

8 3/8 as a top hat? - like is that the biggest hat size you have ever heard of?
 

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Colossal hat to a colossal head

http://images.scotsman.com/2005/08/28/28pleb.jpg
The article mentions Domingo as well - http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/topics.cfm?tid=933&id=1853562005
I couldn't find any panama hat photos of the great tenor either....
8 3/8.
Now we all know why...whether they have ever woven such a big panama hat fitting such a great head with lion's mane?[huh]


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Pavarotti
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1388/1338174832_05f69d40d3_m.jpg
Hugo Blanco - Venezuelan musician
http://www.servindi.org/img/Hugo_Blanco_2.jpg

Frederick Douglass-father of the civil rights movement
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/douglass/2197.jpg
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/douglass/overview.htm
 

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Panama Hat / Chap?©u Panam?° / Sombrero Jipijapa / Chapeaux

http://www.flickr.com/groups/36681862@N00/
About Panama Hat / Chap?©u Panam?° / Sombrero Jipijapa / Chapeaux
For the People who love Panama Hats... Welcome to Panama Hats Group. Where your style is always fashion. For the beginers Panama Hats are woven in Ecuador from the fine fibers of the Jipijapa palm.

Some styles: Stetson Retro Panama Straw Hat, DelMonico Panama Straw Hat Retro Style, Stetson Centerdent Panama Straw Hat, Borsalino Panama Straw Hat and the Borsalino Quenco Fino Panama Straw Hat. The Stetson Cancun is a wide-brimmed planter style panama straw hat.

Fotos de Chap?©us Panam?° (Panama Hats), ?© um chap?©u fabricado no Equador. Seu nome deve-se ao fato de ter ganho popularidade durante a constru?ß?£o do Canal do Panam?°. As principais cidades nas quais ele ?© fabricado s?£o Cuenca e Monte Cristi. Portraits, Style and Fashion.

Feel free to post your FAVORITE pictures of Panama Hats.
Thanks! •


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Panama hat sculpture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/225532229/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjutabor/259677541/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quebon2/216664684/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dijaz/2123902502/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dijaz/1133565720/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canavezi/2320892139/in/pool-panamahat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canavezi/2320889933/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giugn/1221708087/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_lejeune/2293304751/in/pool-panamahat/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helen61/344546399/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aster-oid/2074009710/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernai-velarde/2110887907/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliana_oliveira/2067109890/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balam/2154870400/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balam/2154965462/in/set-72157603637427087/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lebce/2245697662/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18417558@N00/33529152/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravusnet/2283837274/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashraichura/2256115179/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xdjio/129125802/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-traveller/784431837/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lensjockey/499478755/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arslan/496834268/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verymodest/434894970/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajakamaya/212717812/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksforza/99874587/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoit_lejeune/2299610045/in/pool-panamahat/
 

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Ryan Straight-Faced in Panama Hat
http://popsugar.com/230749

A PANAMA HAT COMEDY.
In .pdf

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9403E1D91139E733A25754C0A9619C946097D6CF

July 7, 1901, Wednesday

Section: The New York Times MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT, Page SM8, 1912 words

ELEGANT SUITS FOR EASTER.; THE GRAND DISPLAY OF SPRING GOODS MADE BY H. O'NEILL & CO.

March 30, 1882, Wednesday
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E7DE173DE533A25753C3A9659C94639FD7CF
This is how those elegant panamas covered with lace and beige colored crepe and feathers looked like:
http://roses-and-teacups.com/hats-victorian-bridal.html

Looking for the perfect Panama hat? Try Kenya
ALISON CRAIG
05 December 2001
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/comment/Looking-for-the-perfect-Panama.2283283.jp

Henley regatta
http://www.praktica-users.com/img/pics/st_henley2.jpg
http://www.praktica-users.com/img/pics/st_henley.jpg
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/img/20050311006x325.jpg

Happy Easter

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Frohe Ostern:
DER SPIEGEL 34/1998 vom 17.08.1998, Seite 138
Autor: Joachim Hoelzgen
MODE
Leichter als ein Blatt Papier [Artikel zur Merkliste hinzufügen]
Thomas Mann, Prinzessin Diana und Erich Honecker zierten mit dem Panamahut ihr Haupt. Den Namen verdankt die berühmte Kopfbedeckung einem Mißverständnis: Nicht Panama, sondern Ecuador ist das Ursprungsland der luftigen Strohmodelle. Von Joachim Hoelzgen
http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dok...hut&quellen=+BX,WIKI,+SP,+MM,ALME,+MEDIA&vl=0
SUMMARY: The article focuses on the Cuenca industry featuring K. Dorfzaun mostly and describes the Cuenca hats through his story.
However at the end it mentions Pile as the origin of the finest Panama hats. Dorfzaun also cooperated with Rosendo to get real Montecristi. Pile was described as inaccessible since one bridge was destroyed or some such. Most people leave that village to become maid in Venezuela or armed secy guards at tuna factories. The hats are woven for 3 months and Don Rosendo is mentioned as an active hat buyer - 10 years ago. The US ambassador did purchase @ Don Rosendo the correct way - without bargaining as he knew how valuable Montecristi fino was.
Nice .pdf version w. pictures!
http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/ima.../SP1998/034/SP199803401380140.pdf&thumb=false


DER SPIEGEL 50/1947 vom 13.12.1947, Seite 9
Im weißen Panamahut [Artikel zur Merkliste hinzufügen]
König mit Untergewicht
http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dok...hut&quellen=+BX,WIKI,+SP,+MM,ALME,+MEDIA&vl=0
SUMMARY: It is an interview in 1947 w. the then 90+ years old King of Sweden H.M. Carl Gustav V. the sportsman- always sporting his panama hat for tennis.
 

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Time Life pictures.com
http://www.timelifepictures.com
These panama hat pictures are great but you will be all the time 100% sure that they belong to Time and Life.
Another thing: I put the numbers of pictures so you can find them easily by searching for the number in case the direct link gets broken.

Marlon Brando (Images #50421850, #50336828)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E831860B7DE1252CA3B2EC5929653BA79EDDB5
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/503...6399091E83186BC830E56E4B46A1173E1C7C19DA58591

Edgar J Hoover (#50620338, #50620339)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E831862FEFA2995C5A145C73E1C7C19DA58591
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E831862FEFA2995C5A145CF267BB23640E71CA

Gustav V (Image #50514501)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/505...6399091E831861C084BA48AD6F251CA684A0C9876D468

Hirohito (#72385724)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/723...6399091E83186F4997FE786A78BA0600BE97FB2A1A27B

Cordell Hull (Image #53374552)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/533...6399091E831865F64E94D4BE05D4B55BB2E8D8A76E0DF

Harold Ickes (Image #53374546 )
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/533...6399091E83186F18231D0DFAE9BAEAABAC0793F479CBA

Nikita Khruschev (#50544748, #50550585)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/5054...E1C7C19DA58591

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/5055...F7F4E0B63562CA

Mastroianni (Image #50408969)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186A77A358F6816617BF267BB23640E71CA

Renoir (#53376009)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/533...6399091E831860C03CAE14074660CF267BB23640E71CA

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Images #50481045, #50481053, #50493245, #50624514, #50493244)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E831869365F1E65EE0DFFE08F7F4E0B63562CA
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186F73D2D29D3D74063E8E41183D1F1A779
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186A9AA7627BFAD38F908F7F4E0B63562CA
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186015825330046B15B600BE97FB2A1A27B
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186A9AA7627BFAD38F9600BE97FB2A1A27B

Truman (Images #50648839, #50648840)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E8318602B9C1C5B7A5B57E5929653BA79EDDB5
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E8318627190E923B3FBA33F267BB23640E71CA

Mark Twain (Image #50697215)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186576B430DA332B95308F7F4E0B63562CA

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Le vieux fusil Philippe Noiret
http://www.imedias.biz/images/6288.jpg
 

HungaryTom

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Time Life pictures.com
http://www.timelifepictures.com
Fulgenico Batista (#50451211)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E831866592D6D0924FB62CCA684A0C9876D468

Michael Jordan (#50724535)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/507...6399091E83186A982D0E01DFC349C08F7F4E0B63562CA

Elpidio Quirino (#50395426)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/503...6399091E8318689487C8E239F1C57AABAC0793F479CBA

William Howard Taft (#50700788)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/507...6399091E8318625D5EA63E7D5D4DC73E1C7C19DA58591

Trujillo (#50442243, #50442244, #50442246)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186587C2FD896AE6838E8E41183D1F1A779
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186587C2FD896AE6838600BE97FB2A1A27B
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E83186587C2FD896AE6838AABAC0793F479CBA

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Music man
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulh192/2207104380/in/pool-panamahat/

Swing your partner
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauren_adams/2356332267/in/pool-panamahat/

Nelson, Nelson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14487647@N05/2342855199/in/pool-panamahat/

Casino Royale -007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gettler_by_Richard_Sammel.jpg
"Gettler is an assassin working for Mr. White (in the film) and SMERSH (in the novel). He wears a panama hat in both the film and novel. Also, he wears an eyepatch in the novel, while in the film he wears glasses with a darkened left lens. He is supposedly a Swiss watch salesman."

MISSONI STRIPED PANAMA
http://www.stylefinder.com/items/?id=90462
Panama hat seems to become contemporary and fashionable

AND another Panama hatted villain:
Big Boy Bandit hits fourth bank
Posted on Sun, Mar. 23, 2008
BY DOMINICK TAO
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/466968.html
His disguises always include gray-tinted glasses, and he has been seen wearing a range of head coverings, from colorful golf caps to Panama Jack-style brimmed hats.
 

Pilgrim

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I guess my contribution to this thread is just to say that I need to do some business with Panama Bob this summer. I'm tired of my cheap Panama that won't hold its shape.

All I have to do it finish paying for car windshields, college tuition for daughters, and a few other incidentals!
 

HungaryTom

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Parkinson Interview With Luciano Pavarotti – superfine montecristi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrPvm5F9Gg4

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http://www.timelifepictures.com
Cuenca 1964
Scene from a hat factory (#50677019)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E8318645BBE15A45436A38F267BB23640E71CA

Scene from a hat factory (#50677043)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186A431A2342A0F3CBEE8E41183D1F1A779

Sally Victor (# 50677046)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186A431A2342A0F3CBEAABAC0793F479CBA

A young boy making a straw hat. (# 50677047)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186A431A2342A0F3CBEEDEC3CA27BD1FFB3

A young boy working in a hat factory. (#50677048)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186A431A2342A0F3CBE73E1C7C19DA58591

An Indian hat maker weaving a straw hat.(#50677049)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/506...6399091E83186A431A2342A0F3CBEF267BB23640E71CA

Joe Luis – boxer (#50441657)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E8318655EB64998B92CA80EDEC3CA27BD1FFB3

1953 – Matthew McCloskey (#50326410)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/503...6399091E831867A4BD0467E90F9965929653BA79EDDB5

1942 - Bathing At Oak Street Beach (#52989703)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/529...6399091E83186FDD188DC3B648C2FE8E41183D1F1A779

1939 panama hat - A view showing a fashionable Panama hat (#50441161)
http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/504...6399091E8318621F8512A4499942ACA684A0C9876D468

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Men at exhibition
http://bc.fotosearch.com/bigcomps/SBY/SBY837/AA007406.jpg

Blogs:

Hoosier illuminati
http://www.hoosierilluminati.com/index.php/site/comments/the_lids/

The fedora was made and the Panama blocked by Art Fawcett, a hell of a nice guy I can recommend without qualification for your hat needs. The Panama was sourced from Robert Weber at Panama Hat Works of Montecristi in Fort Wayne, Indiana, another terrific guy who spends a lot of very scary hours in Ecuador to make sure Americans have nice hats. Take a look at this page of his site to see what all is involved in creating a Panama hat body, there’s way more to it than you probably know.”

Underrated and sexy - The Panama Hat http://cleopatras-boudoir.blogspot.com/2008/02/underrated-and-sexy-panama-hat.html

Panama hat lovers club
http://phlovers.wordpress.com/


Five senses complete–the Panama hat taste
Panama Hat Gingered Ale
http://pantsville.com/index.php?page=brewBlogDetail&id=15&pg=1
 

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