…hat is the best! We purchased it as a festive addition to pressure washing our house and have turned the event into a photo op due to the coolness of... more... retired commercial fisherman Feb 15, 2009 KENNETH HARTMAN THOMSON GE US SICE I WAS A YOUNG LAD, I KNEW OF THE SOU'EASTER FISHERMANS RAIN HAT…

…of straw hats. I was now a direct importer. We traveled to Ecuador, home of the legendary Panama hat. Ironically, it was not Panama hats that we cultivated on that trip, but rather crushable wool felt hats for men. As luck (the residue of design) would have it, I opened the Quito yellow pages and found…