Brent Black and his Panama Hat Company of the Pacific are selling handmade hats from Montecristi, Ecuador for the modest price of $25,000 – modest in that one of their cherished caps fetched ...

This uncanny ability came in handy on Black's first trip to Ecuador in 1988. He had traveled there to find an authentic Panama hat, a centuries-old Ecuadorian handicraft, just to be clear. Black had ...

"No one daydreams about wearing a baseball cap," notes hat dealer Brent Black. But a Panama hat could star in any fantasy of tropical escape. Black, a former creative director for Ogilvy & Mather ...

Espinal wove the hat at the behest of Hawaiian-based Panama hat dealer Brent Black, whom he has known for many years and who agreed to pay him a salary during his eight months of weaving ...

LA PINTADA, Panama ... dyed black with the leaves from a different plant and then stuck in mud for three days. The fibers are woven into fine geometric designs and integrated into the hat giving ...

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. More than 150 hours ...