HungaryTom
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The purpose of this purchase was for me to get the LEGENDARY Panama hat come true in my life. I already have a normal Cuenca hat. And a gardening wheat straw hat. Those hats are there for sun protection.
This work of art was for the art collector in me.
Robert Weber:
I believed that PanamaBob could make the legend happen - despite reading info about the contrary elsewhere... Bob is cheaper in price does not mean that he is cheap in quality!
800-900 USD... I wanted somewhat extra so I just worked some extra time for that- I didn't take credit! If it goes here in Hungary - please don't tell me it doesn't work in the US! I had some fellow Hungarian guys who worked in the States: they got 3-4 times higher salaries! The US green card lottery has some applicants for reasons.
Yes, I don't own dozens of hats - but I wanted this one. Rather a few quality pieces instead of many-many.
This quality of a hat exists with PanamaBob's competitors (e.g.14 pcs in Hawaii) but for price people buy cars. Maybe it is OK for some collector to pay 10k USD for a collector quality hat but for me it was mission impossible.
Please compare like in any martial arts: featherweight vs. featherweight and heavyweight vs. heavyweight. 20-30 USD hats from PanamaBob with the other competitors 20-30 USD hats. Museo quality vs. others museo quality.
This hat with its superbly fine weave and the plenty of vueltas comes very close to vintage specimens. Thats what I saw when comparing the vintage film on a superfino and the close up photos in the Panama hat book.
This hat stands the comparison with all times and all provenances-I think. And since this hat is new it has the 60-80+ years longer lifespan and was made for my size. My great grandpa's panama (he had one in the 1920's) wouldn't fit me - I am 30 cm taller plus WW2 took also that hat, besides soo many other things.
Art Fawcett:
I think Mr. Fawcett managed to give exactly the dosage of intervention which allows the hat to get its true form on the head - its brim is floppy when it is stored on a table - but if I put it on my head and a few strokes on the brim- the miracle happens and fits! I prefer here the fine weave and texture - instead of the rigid shape. Art did preserve it the best way -the high class of blocking.
Marc Chevalier's vintage Optimo showed that Art can even restore vintage hats!
That is already a true mastery of a craft.
I showed my hat to my best friend and his wife - they also confirmed that looking backwards this hat was worth the wait. BTW it was him who instinctively compared this with skin.
This work of art was for the art collector in me.
Robert Weber:
I believed that PanamaBob could make the legend happen - despite reading info about the contrary elsewhere... Bob is cheaper in price does not mean that he is cheap in quality!
800-900 USD... I wanted somewhat extra so I just worked some extra time for that- I didn't take credit! If it goes here in Hungary - please don't tell me it doesn't work in the US! I had some fellow Hungarian guys who worked in the States: they got 3-4 times higher salaries! The US green card lottery has some applicants for reasons.
Yes, I don't own dozens of hats - but I wanted this one. Rather a few quality pieces instead of many-many.
This quality of a hat exists with PanamaBob's competitors (e.g.14 pcs in Hawaii) but for price people buy cars. Maybe it is OK for some collector to pay 10k USD for a collector quality hat but for me it was mission impossible.
Please compare like in any martial arts: featherweight vs. featherweight and heavyweight vs. heavyweight. 20-30 USD hats from PanamaBob with the other competitors 20-30 USD hats. Museo quality vs. others museo quality.
This hat with its superbly fine weave and the plenty of vueltas comes very close to vintage specimens. Thats what I saw when comparing the vintage film on a superfino and the close up photos in the Panama hat book.
This hat stands the comparison with all times and all provenances-I think. And since this hat is new it has the 60-80+ years longer lifespan and was made for my size. My great grandpa's panama (he had one in the 1920's) wouldn't fit me - I am 30 cm taller plus WW2 took also that hat, besides soo many other things.
Art Fawcett:
I think Mr. Fawcett managed to give exactly the dosage of intervention which allows the hat to get its true form on the head - its brim is floppy when it is stored on a table - but if I put it on my head and a few strokes on the brim- the miracle happens and fits! I prefer here the fine weave and texture - instead of the rigid shape. Art did preserve it the best way -the high class of blocking.
Marc Chevalier's vintage Optimo showed that Art can even restore vintage hats!
That is already a true mastery of a craft.
I showed my hat to my best friend and his wife - they also confirmed that looking backwards this hat was worth the wait. BTW it was him who instinctively compared this with skin.