two-inch bound brim. The trim is a grosgrain ribbon with bow and feather, and the attitude is all yours.
In Japanese Bu,
The Schubert is a very soft and classy
straw hat that features a nautical striped band with contrast bow. It's new this season from Makins and you won't believe how light it fits on your head. For another straw hat, this one a bleach
Panama fedora, take a look at
The Carnegie. The brim is just stingy at two inches, and there's a fancy print three-pleat silk ribbon as trim. Flip it over to see the grosgrain sweatband and -- for the first time ever by Makins -- a very light (and sexy) lining.
Makins liked
The Carnegie so much, they made it in Natural too, which you'll see with the fedora called
The Lincoln Center. Either one makes a great out-for-the-evening
Panama hat with that down-turned brim and fancy pleated trim, so go ahead and buy both.
An unlined and whisper-light
fedora from Makins that I particularly like is a paribuntal straw hat called
The Lyceum. Perfect for warm weather wear, the fedora features a two-inch wide turned down brim and its fancy multi-striped grosgrain trim with bow really pops. For a hat that'll keep you looking cool and dapper, there's
The Kyoto, a Japanese Bu
fedora from Makins. It's got a classic up brim with stylish red and blue polka dot grosgrain band.
As with all their
hats, Makins uses the time-tested method of wooden blocks and live steam to shape and block the
hat bodies, by hand, one at a time. Hats off to
Makins, men!