The Spring and Summer 2008 Catalog
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Makins Hats--designers of fedoras and porkpies in particular--is an industry legend, and when you see some of the fancy ramie dress hats and panama straw lids they churn out, like this magnificent two tone woven Panama fedora, The Central Park, I think you'll be more than slightly impressed. This NYC-based company works with a myriad of materials in the creation of their fedora hats and porkpie hats including leather, colored ribbon braid and pure fur felt as in The Black Beaver. They take chances too, pairing disparate source fabrics together to create one great hat, with The Bronx Fur Felt Fedora a prime example in leather and fur felt. Stingy brims are used effectively by Makins, and never more so than with The Long Island, another leather and fur felt fedora or with the leather-braided Downtown.
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There's a reason why this little hat concern wins
prestigious awards like the Coty ("for injecting excitement into a long
dormant category") and the Cutty Sark ("Best Men's Accessory Designer"). One
look at the this season's ramie caramel fedora or sisal porkpie in black,
and you'll start raving with the rest of us. (That's a good thing.)
It's no surprise that this little hat concern wins prestigious awards like The Coty ("for injecting excitement into a long dormant category") and The Cutty Sark ("Best Men's Accessory Designer"). One look at the two-toned ramie hat with contrast sewn leather braid banding called The Grand Central Fedora, a superb showcase of Makins' playful use of pattern, and you'll start raving with the rest of us. (That's a good thing.)
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