Panama Hat Thread

[casechopper]

If you check out Panama Bobs website he has a more cowboy styles available. One I remember seeing was a cuenca called Sweetwater. If you send him an email he can probably guide you as to what to get.

 

[ccajackson]

Woo Hoo!

I had a wonderful conversation with Mr. Fawcett today - and my Panama is going on the block! I ordered a SuperFino from PanamaBob, and Art says it's a beauty - Bob even got the weaver to initial the inside for me. Just in time for the warm weather! I'll get pictures up as soon as it arrives.

malacoda - after seeing your hat, I am all the more eager to get mine. The weaving, blocking and ribbon-work are beautiful. Congratulations on a spectacular hat.

C-C

 

[Wildblue]

Now THAT is a fantastic look, sir.

 

[alanfgag]

Thanks very much! I had worries that the brim was too wide...

 

[Nick D]

It doesn't compare with the fine lids in this thread, but it's my first panama. It's a Christys from the Hat Shop in York. I've finally been able to wear it after a week of rain and cold.

 

[Dinerman]

Too damaged to wear, too cool to have passed up. Finally good pics of the wider brimmed NRA tagged Stetson montecristi, and its older, narrower Stetson cousin.
The coin is a standard dime-size, to give a sense of scale.

 

[Dinerman]

 

[mayserwegener]

Super!

 

[danofarlington]

I've got a Stetson in Optimo style just like that, my hatman said it is from the 20s. I don't know when that one was made, but it's great. Mine's a little brittle--fell off a table and grabbing it in mid-air, I tore the brim about half an inch. But they sure don't make 'em like they used to.

 

[Aureliano]

Super!

:arated:

 

[Danny Ocean]

A long overdue purchase, especially considering the recent, very warm weather. Wide brim Panama, not vintage, but from one of the oldest hatters around, Lock & Co. London.

Danny O

 

[Lefty]

Super!

+2. I'd love to have a high quality beater panama.

 

[alanfgag]

These look like they would wear just fine... wow and wow+

 

[WineGuy]

+2. I'd love to have a high quality beater panama.

Very simple Lefty...purchase a top of the line Montecristi from PB...spill Mont Blanc Black fountainpen ink on it...soak it in hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours and voila...a high quality beater!

 

[alanfgag]

Thank you... always wanted to use OMG in a post. I touched a rollerball pen point to the under brim of my 7XCB western in a meeting and the little dot almost made me scream out loud.

Great lookin' Montebeater after all is said and done... wear it with smiles.

 

[Lefty]

I prefer a naturally aged beater over an unfortunate disaster beater.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

This could be cleaned with a bleaching.

 

[DanielCoffey]

Ballpoint inks are very fugitive, some notoriously so, but a lot of the better fountain pen inks are more persistent when in contact with vegetable fibres (an anti-forgery measure, especially used in black inks) - I suspect this is why so much of the Mont Blanc ink remains on WineGuy's gorgeous panama. Just be glad you didn't squirt it with Noodler's Bullerproof Black!

WineGuy - have you considered asking PanamaBob to get that section of the brim re-woven? I don't know if it feasible for such a large area.

 

[daizawaguy]

Batsakes finished Panama from Bob. Lovely hat, great color, well woven.

 

[daizawaguy]