Hats?

**Bugbear** · 3rd November 08, 06:47 PM

Guess when people start bidding it gets out of control...

Two-hundred dollars was about the range of most of the panamas, and that would be for the hand woven, fine strand type. It's quite a process they go through, so I can understand that. I don't have the spelling of the name of the area handy, but I read that there were only twenty master hat makers left who are able to make the highest quality hats. I can see how having one of those hats would be a collector's investment... slightly like rare coins and so on.

* I think it was montecristi, Ecuador. Hmmm, shrunken heads... sporrans... *

**Bugbear** · 3rd November 08, 11:14 PM

Here we go:

Christy of London Caps from Shushan's

The panama hats are down the page in the summer hats section. There are many other hats offered as well.

**Bugbear** · 4th November 08, 12:43 AM

And here is the direct link to Christys' and Company.

**Bugbear** · 7th November 08, 12:15 AM

Hmmmm, I wonder if a felt fedora, or any kind of fedora would look good if worn with a kilt?

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 3rd November 08, 08:06 PM

I get mine from Christy's, in London.

**JRB** · 3rd November 08, 09:32 PM

I've read that the best Panama hats are actually woven while submerged in a tank of water (the hat not the weaver). I'm not sure if it's true but it makes the hat seem more exotic.