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Some new Panama hats for the Spring/Summer 2013 season come your way from Kangol. There's a fedora and a pork pie, both made in the USA and featuring contrast brims and vibrant red trim with brass buckles. You know, of course, that Panama hats are almost always hand woven and most are woven from the leaves of a perennial wild herb called a Panama hat palm. I would tell you the Latin name, but it's really long and hard to say and I can't begin to spell it. Also, Panama hats aren't even made in Panama, but Ecuador. This may seem much more of a learning curve than you've got with, say men's straw hats, or even Makins Men's Special Order Hats, and certainly more complex than straw casual hats for men.
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Skip the education process altogether, if you wish, and go straight to the hats: there's The Panama Special, a magnificent Carlos Santana Panama hat made exclusively for Hartford York. It features a finely woven and vented body with bound edge, a just stingy two-inch brim and a pleated leather and grosgrain trim with pick stitching. As an exclusive, this hat is only available to order right here at HartfordYork.com.
We also carry a full range of spring/summer hats from Borsalino, including The Vented Montecristi, an exceptional and lightweight handwoven hat that required several hundred hours of hand work by a number of skilled of artisans before reaching us. The Borsalino Panama w/fantasy Band is a Panama fedora that showcases a natural colored grosgrain band with a dark tinged edge. The Panama Fino is yet another Panama hat woven by hand from Borsalino. Gorgeous in natural, this snap brimmed Ecuadorian panama is blocked to perfection by the Italian masters, then finished to perfection.
Similar to The Fino, The Panama Turndown has a turned down 2 1/2 inch brim and trimmed with a dark grosgrain band and bow featuring the Borsalino monogram. Customers love this hat; in fact, one review reads: "The Fino Turndown...Excellent. This hat is on fire. A great Derby hat and the women love it. This hat is way too cool for any room. Someone stole mine, and life has never been the same. If you like it out on the edge, this is how to get there."
Panama hat perfection is yours as well with The Christys' Panama, an elegant fedora from Christys' London with a brim that's just stingy at two inches. Made in the USA, the hat is finished with a grosgrain fabric sweatband for added wearer comfort. Biltmore offers up some Panama hats of excellent quality too. There's an absolutely superb pinch front Montecristi Panama that will turn heads as well as new a top-of-the-line American-made Panama fedora called The Vegas with a very stingy upturned brim, ribbon band and pin. If it's a pork pie hat you'd like to see in Panama straw, Biltmore has a Montecristi pork pie hat with a way stingy brim sure to put a little jazz in your style.
There are also a couple of Tommy Bahama panama hats to consider. One is a Gambler hat, with a generous brim of 3 1/2 inches for lots of sun protection. The open weave keeps it cool and it's trimmed with a striking paisley ribbon band and TB Marlin pin. The other is The Outback, with a shade-making three-inch brim. Made in the USA, this Panama hat features diagonal venting on the crown, braided rope trim and an elastic sweatband for maximum comfort.
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