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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.

Looks good, love the setting!

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

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?

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

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

Sorry that the close ups took this long.

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

Great Panama, it suits you very well