Panama Hat Thread

[RJR]

I stumbled upon this while looking for something else....

Here is a link to who is selling it......
https://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/006213.php?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=ecn&utm_campaign=ecn

I might have bought one just for fun, if the price was lower...

Very cool.

 

[projectalpha]

Anyone know what happened to the Panama Bob thread? I know it wasn't really going anywhere. Just curious.

 

[TheManInTheHat]

1902

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062245/1902-06-15/ed-1/seq-29/;words=HAT+HATS+hat+hats

This is an important article. If you read the detail, it blows away the often-regurgitated myth that Theodore Roosevelt popularised the Panama. In fact, as reported variously since 1900, Panamas were all the rage with everyone except Roosevelt, who stubbornly refused to give up his signature slouc h hat. When he finally relented (1906?) a lot of the resultant coverage had an undertone of "Well finally, Mr President!

 

[TheManInTheHat]

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This is an important article. If you read the detail, it blows away the often-regurgitated myth that Theodore Roosevelt popularised the Panama. In fact, as reported variously since 1900, Panamas were all the rage with everyone except Roosevelt, who stubbornly refused to give up his signature slouc h hat. When he finally relented (1906?) a lot of the resultant coverage had an undertone of "Well finally, Mr President!

Sorry loungers; in my excitement, I mistakenly uploaded the relevant extract 3 times...

 

[addison]

My frist white straw:

Looks great on you!! Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to pull off white hats.

 

[AndyR]

Sorry loungers; in my excitement, I mistakenly uploaded the relevant extract 3 times...

You should be able to go back in and edit your post to remove the duplicate uploads. Click the 'edit' button in the lower left (below your avatar) and then click 'save changes' after you have edited.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Might as well post it here.
panamahatsdirect 550-600 WPSI optimo wide brim.



This was about eight years ago.

Johnny

 

[johnnycanuck]

Almost forgot the inside weave pattern shot.

Enjoy
Johnny

 

[Bob Roberts]

Almost forgot the inside weave pattern shot.

Enjoy
Johnny

OMG! If you stare at the picture for awhile, things begin to happen and move...

 

[johnnycanuck]

Anyone heard of this company? Bought anything from them?
http://www.ecuadorianhands.com/en/
Johnny

 

[johnnycanuck]

OMG! If you stare at the picture for awhile, things begin to happen and move...

Crazy pattern huh? You can stare at the hat for a while just taking in the pattern.
Johnny

 

[Bob Roberts]

Crazy pattern huh? You can stare at the hat for a while just taking in the pattern.
Johnny

Psychedelic Straw.

 

[johnnycanuck]

Psychedelic Straw.

Indeed and how! I also have three. So lots of variety.
Johnny

 

[FedOregon]

Well, Mrs FedOregon would not leave me alone until I went over to our local Fire Dept to grab an application for the Life Flight helicopter "amubulance" service insurance plan... but they were closed for a few minutes so I walked down the highly interesting 3rd Street here in McMinnville and stopped into an antique shop. Walked around, saw an overpriced hat box and a few too small and uninteresting hats for men and boys...

Then, on the way out... wait, what is this??? On a wall with hats for women, could it be? Oh yes, a vintage Dobbs Summerlite Regency. The grosgrain sweatband also has the name of the store, Meier and Frank Co., Portland, Oregon. Only the ribbon is an add on. It's a tight weave Montecristi, size 7 for Mrs or daughter... by my count it looks like about 19-20 rows squared, so 361-400 wpsi. A nice little hat for $15.

Pics later if I can manage the process...

 

[FedOregon]

I'm tempted to send this down to VS and have Art spruce it and correctly place a ribbon on it for my daughter or wife...

This is the front. Kind of looks like the original Indiana Jones "turn" we see in the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[Impatient]

Anyone know what happened to the Panama Bob thread? I know it wasn't really going anywhere. Just curious.

Looks like it got deleted (disappeared like my money, if you want to be more poetic).

 

[FedOregon]

Interesting item regarding the ladies hat I posted above. I was looking under the sweatband and found that this hat was made in 2 parts, the brim and the crown, and then sewn together when the sweatband was put into place.

 

[navarre]

Interesting item regarding the ladies hat I posted above. I was looking under the sweatband and found that this hat was made in 2 parts, the brim and the crown, and then sewn together when the sweatband was put into place.

That is a pretty common Millinery technique in both straw and felt hats Fed

 

[FedOregon]

I've not seen it before in the 5 Panama hats I've purchased while in Ecuador, or in stacks of bodies at the Homero Ortega factory in Cuenca. Maybe it's more common in women's hats?

 

[Rick Blaine]

REAL PANAMA?



...if so, it is a one tight weave.
Oh well, lotsa summer left here in the swamps.