Cubans love hats. So many different models are worn like Canotier, Panama, Fedora, Gatsby also Hip-hop and baseball hats.
So stylish and so forever modern. It is really nice to wear a hat.
THE CUBAN CANOTIER HAT
The main fabric is straw, forming its head with a flat cup and a straight shape to its wing. It is usually decorated with a blue or black band. It is also known as Canotier, Boater, Porkpie or Gondolero, being only differentiated among them according to the type of straw and the braid of the same.
The Canotier Cuban Hat is a straw hat that supports both formal and informal styles, adaptable to all kinds of situations. It is therefore considered among the best hats for its elegance, versatility, and timelessness.
In its origin, it was recognized as the hat of the people and was used by actors, sportsmen, sailors and middle-class people in picnics, sporting events, and weekend excursions as well as in more formal events.
In Cuba, it was the typical image of the refined Cuban gentleman between the years 1914-1940, as a complement to the crude white suit, so typical of the Caribbean island. Its use was generalized during the first decades of the twentieth century along with the Panama hat and Fedora hat. Although following the dress code established by England it could be used only in summer, the island’s climate made Cubans use it at any season of the year, just as it happened in other countries with warm climates.
Nowadays, it has recovered its importance being basic in the closet of every man and woman who like to bring a distinctive and different touch to their daily look.
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THE PANAMA HAT
With a design and features almost identical to the Fedora hat, its design features a wide brim with bent edges to create a depression at the top of the hat and a pinch in the front that gives forward shape.
Its main difference from the Fedora is that it is made of straw. The classic color of the Panama hat is white with bands in different colors, but nowadays the designs are changing, offering a great variety of styles and colors.
It originated in Ecuador, not Panama, and was popularized during the construction of the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Gatsby Hat
The hat that the Great Gatsby wears most is the flat cap. Also known as Ivy caps, cab driver hats, newsboy caps, golf caps, driving caps, and big apple caps. It is made of 8 triangle panels that meet at the top with a covered button made in the same material. It has a small brim that the top rests on.
In the summer, these caps were made of a light colored linen or cotton poplin material and lined in silk for breath-ability. In cooler weather, the caps came in tweed, herringbone wool, and corduroy as well. Darker colors were worn in the winter– blues, greys, and browns– in solid, plaid and check patterns.
All classes of men wore these hats, even boys selling newspapers on street corners, hence the newsboy hat name. It was mostly a working man’s hat from working-class origins as a fisherman’s hat.
It became a well-to-do men’s hat when worn with sporting clothes or upper-class leisure clothing such as golf. For auto drivers, it was ideal since there was no stiff crown to bump into the car roof. It remained a sports hat for golf well beyond the 1920’s.
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Fedora
In the 1920’s, the fedora hat was just entering the fashion scene for men. Previously, it was a women’s style hat starting in the 1880’s, 1920’s men’s fedoras featured wide 3 inch brims that were shaped downward on both the front and back side thus making the sides rolled slightly upwards.
This shape was popular with young men who called it the snap brim or swagger hat style. Otherwise, brims were turned up on one side and down on the other, a style preferred by more traditional men.
Fedoras also had a sharp crease down the middle that could be a single crease or a triangle shape with the base of the triangle at the back of that hat. Hats came uncreased when purchased so that the owner could decide how to shape it.
Popular colors were olive green, black, brown, and gray. Hat colors often matched suits, but it was not a universal rule. While the felt fedora started out as a middle-class hat, wealthy men associated with prohibition and crime, aka Al Capone and his gangsters, were icons for the hats in the 1920’s.
A solid color band with a flat bow wrapped the base of the hat. Usually, the band was made of silk and matched the color of the hat. For extra style, the band would be in a contrasting color, like white on black.