it's time to dive into
men's casual straw hats, including those made from other natural fibers like toyo and raffia, and see what grabs you.
You'll be choosing from the best casual spring and summer straw hat styles possible, of course, including the Tommy Bahama collection of fedoras and
Panama hats. You've got a broad three inch brim (and marlin pin on the double pleat satin band) with a
raffia fedora aptly called
The Raffia Fedora, and new this season, the designer brings a pinch front fedora called
The Punto Negro Panama, trimmed with ribbon and jute overlay. Another
Panama hat courtesy of Tommy Bahama is a ventilated fedora. It's got a great trim with grosgrain ribbon and marlin pin plus the elasticized sweatband for wearer comfort.
From New York,
Makins brings you
Panama hats including
The Actor's Studio, a two-tone stingy brim, and
The Lincoln Center, this one with a down turn brim and -- for the first time ever in a Makins hat -- it's lined.
The Carnegie is lined too. It's a Panama
straw hat with a stingy brim, fancy three-pleat silk trim and cool grosgrain sweatband. Sisal is in style this season, with Makins bringing forth
The Radio City, a
fedora in mint green.
Also new this season is a line of hats from Eugenia Kim called the Mr. Kim hats.
The Camel Reid, for instance, is a vented
stingy brim fedora is a vented and multi-textured hat that features a raffia body and toyo brim and crown. It's one of my top picks for the season, although
The Camel Craig sure is a beaut of a
toyo fedora with a very slim brim and an ikat triple-pleated band with vintage cat pin.
It's nice to wear something that very few others have, and
The Panama Special is 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 here.
We carry a full range of spring/summer hats from
Borsalino, of course, 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 hat that showcases a grosgrain band that has a dark tinged edge on the natural colored band.
The Panama Fino is yet another
Borsalino 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 is a
men's hat with a turned down 2 1/2 inch brim and is trimmed with a dark grosgrain band and bow featuring the Borsalino monogram.
Not every straw hat is a
Panama hat, but panama perfection sure is yours with
The Elegante, a woven bleached safari from Christys' London. Designated a Grade 20, the hand weave is virtually seamless. Biltmore offers up same
Panama hats of excellent quality too. There's an absolutely superb pinch front Montecristi Panama that will turn heads as well as a top-of-the-line Panama pinch front fedora with a tapered brim and twelve linge ribbon band. If it's a
pork pie hat you'd like to see in Panama straw, Biltmore has a Montecristi pork pie hat with a very stingy brim sure to put a spring in your step.