Unless I am an elite haggler, the price difference between the handwoven Panama hat he’s cradling in his white-gloved hands and one from a stack in the nearby ...

Few items can add instant style to a warm-weather outfit as a Panama hat. Forever a classic, the best Panama hats channel the glamour of The Great Gatsby or Hunter S. Thompson, becoming a timeless yet ...

Creamy as silk and costlier than gold, a Montecristi superfino Panama hat is as much a work of art as it is of fashion. Gabriel Lucas irons a hat at his workshop in Montecristi, Ecuador.Credit ...

The pinta’o originated in the province of Coclé southwest of Panama City, where the hats are still made today. Gabriel Bouys/Getty Images The Panama hat is infamously misnamed. The handmade straw ...