The Spring and Summer 2008 Catalog
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The sheer number of men's dress hats we have available is slightly embarrassing. In addition to panama hat classics like the pair of handwoven Finos from Borsalino, and elegant westerns from Milano, we're introducing works of art a la dress fedora genre by Mr. Green Hats including The Frank (yes, that's the tone-on-tone sewn paglina braid). I've also stocked up on Makins this season -- and when you see the collection (and colors!) of fedoras in ramie, leather braid and panama straw, you'll thank me profusely before turning into a buying machine. Stacy Adams has also surpassed perfection with their matte raffia porkpie which they call The Washington (and I call divine) and then dares to do it again with The Adams Homburg (ultra light in sinamay).
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For those of you who can't move on, I've brought back a few classics from last year: the Sicilian Hemp and Baku Straw fedoras from Borsalino, and the stingy brim Quito from Scala, who also offers the open weave crown of their hard-to-say Guayaquil fedora. Broad brim standards include the aptly-named Big Brim Gambler as well as The Saratoga, a panama straw with a slight western flavor. Speaking of western hats, nothing less than Colonel Littleton's Lynnville Panama will do for the gentleman rancher unless perhaps it's the two-tone San Lorenzo, with vented crown and shapeable brim, or maybe Milano's authentic Cowboy Hat, unlined and cool in handwoven straw.
I admit to having a couple of new favorites this spring, like the Copacabana, a Grade 3 panama and the very sharp Lima Safari (think summertime Peru), but perhaps my absolute first choice is the horsehair porkpie from New York's Makins. It takes a man with a certain flair to hit the streets in this lightweight, snappy lid, and by jove, I think I've got it! Take a look and see if you can wear it too.
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