Got a nice Panama

prairiejones · Post by **prairiejones** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:55 pm

I got this Panama Jack down in Key West on our way to Cozumel. I'm pretty happy with it. Sweat band is cotton and I had to cut it after a couple of days due to shrinkage.

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:03 pm

Looks good, love the setting!

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:07 pm

looking good prariejones! you look better prepared for the sun and fun than i did when i was running around with my felt akubra in jamaica

IndyFlyer · Post by **IndyFlyer** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:27 pm

Very cool indeed! Did you do any tweaking on it, it looks great.

I was just in Key West myself last week. Which shop did you find it in?

Strider · Post by **Strider** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:11 pm

The more I look at it, the more it looks like an LC style panama.

Indiana Kev · Post by **Indiana Kev** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:35 pm

I think that hat has a very "Venice Pier" look to it. I think it looks great!

prairiejones · Post by **prairiejones** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:53 am

IndyFlyer wrote:Very cool indeed! Did you do any tweaking on it, it looks great.

I was just in Key West myself last week. Which shop did you find it in?

I did some work on the brim and ,of course, sat on it a couple of times.
The shop was on Simonton, by the car with ceramic tile all over it.

Thanks for the compliments. I do like this hat a lot.

blade runner · Post by **blade runner** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:16 am

Very nice hat. No adverse effects from sitting on it? I'm looking at getting a panama hat for the summer -- it gets a little hot here for a felt hat and I'm tired of ruining baseball caps by soaking them with sweat (not an issue right now -- today it's 1 degree F here with a windchill of -19 degrees). Any idea what "grade" of hat it is or who the maker is?

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:22 am

You sat on it?! Is it a cloth "panama" or a woven panama? If the latter, I wouldn't recommend sitting on it at all since you could break the weave and essentially the hat. Felt is one thing because it reacts differently, but a woven hat is FAR more fragile and can and wil crack if not careful. If you sit on a panama to shape it, you do so at your own risk. I'm not picking on you, Prairie, I just want folks to understand that a panama hat and a fedora are two different things altogether. That said, can you post some close up shots of your panama?

prairiejones · Post by **prairiejones** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:50 pm

Yes, there were what you might call, adverse effects from sitting on it. That was what I wanted. It looked way to "new". It is a $30 Panama Jack, so I'm not to worried about hurting it. It is cracked on the brim, and almost cracked on the pinch, exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the warning, Bink. I don't want anyone hurting a hat that they don't want to hurt. I'll work on some close ups right now.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:50 pm

Thanks for the clarification, Prairie. Sitting on a cheap $30 panama is far different (and much more forgivable) than sitting on a nice Montecristi.

I have a cheap Dobbs which has gotten nicely "broken in" from a couple summers of wear. I'm glad the adverse effects was what you were after, and sitting on that hat will surely do just that.

prairiejones · Post by **prairiejones** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:00 pm

Sorry that the close ups took this long.

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:54 pm

I can see clearly you got the result you were aiming for out of that 30 dollar hat.

Indiana Max · Post by **Indiana Max** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:53 pm

Great Panama, it suits you very well