When we got our first large order from Club Monaco, ... Photos: Meet the Panama Hat Designer Carried by Colette. Ecuadorian artisans make hats for Gabriela Goldbaum’s brand, Valdez.

We are talking about the Panama hat, which is traditionally made in Ecuador. The elegant headwear woven from palm fibres, considered a status symbol for men for decades, is now making a slow comeback.

Adorned in cowboy hats, ball caps and Panama hats, ... As for now, Cape Girardeau has 11 Red Hat Society chapters, but it has only one White Hats group. charris@semissouiran.com.

LA PINTADA, Panama (AP) — Cultural authorities at UNESCO have recognized the artisans of Panama for their distinctive woven hats. No, not those hats; the famed “Panama hat” comes from Ecuador.

Brent Black sells Panama hats that take 1,000 hours to make, about the same amount of work to pay for them, and all but float off your head. BTW: They don't come from Panama.

What he will state is that the hat he finished last year, and which required nearly a thousand hours of weaving, is the finest he has ever woven — indeed the finest he has ever seen or even ...