John G. Macas, president and owner of a hat company that has kept Baltimoreans in fedoras, tweed caps and cream-colored Panamas for nearly 70 years, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 72. Mr. Macas ...

Beijing, May 31 (EFE).Beijing, May 31 (EFE). — The Ecuadorian Embassy in China promoted Tuesday its typical Andean straw hats known in their country of origin as “toquillas” but called “Panama hats” ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Meline: Most hat stores don't do custom shaping and sizing, but at Lock & Co., the oldest hat shop in the world, every head is measured before a hat is made. After ...

Despite their name, Panama hats are not made in Panama -- they're are made in Ecuador, and are woven by hand from a plant called the toquilla palm. And the finest of these hats is actually woven in a ...

CUENCA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat." Sign up here. The Ecuadorean hats ...