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 ...

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.

He had traveled there to find an authentic Panama hat, a centuries-old Ecuadorian handicraft, just to be clear. Black had recently read Tom Miller's book, The Panama Hat Trail—part praise ballad, part ...

The Black women’s church aesthetic has always centered hats and over time they have developed from patterned headwraps to elaborate wide-brimmed beauties.

Some Panama hats can cost as much as $25,000. When is a Panama hat more like a work of museum-quality art? It all begins with the straw, which comes from a plant “cut at just the right time of ...

Mr. Black is the person who founded Brent Black Panama Hat, a Panama hat specialty store, in 1988, and has been developing high-quality hat weaving techniques in Montecristi, Ecuador.

How much would you pay for the finest Panama hat in the world, handmade by the finest Panama hat-maker in the world? $5000? $20,000? $50,000? It’s a real question hanging in the air, as a ...