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This week, I visited the Homero Ortega hat factory in Cuenca, Ecuadors third largest city with a small town feel,sacoche longchamp, perfect weather and friendly people.
The factory buys woven but unfinished hats from the villagers and then goes through a long process of soaking,cheap jordan shoes, drying, dying, ironing,air jordan 5, pressing and shaping the hats into the desired form. The last piece of work is the addition of a ribbon around the brim. Black ribbons are traditional for both men and women.
The hats are very popular with celebrities and come in many styles and colors. The traditional that most people are familiar with is a fedora style,Louboutin pas chere, with white straw and a black ribbon trim. Quality varies depending on the tightness of the weave, among other factors.
Prices at the Homero Ortega factory range from about $25 to nearly $2,cheap louboutin shoes,000 for the finest quality hats. Those high end products can sell for as much as $6,nike tn,000 in Europe and Asia. The factory sells about 120,chaussures Louboutin pas cher,000 hats each year and ships to five continents.
And about that Panama connection. When the hats first became popular outside of Ecuador,chaussure tn pas cher, the Ecuadorean hatmakers delivered their products to Panama for shipping around the world. When the cartons of hats arrived to those far flung places,sac longchamp bandouliere, the shipping containers were stamped Panama. And the name stuck.????????
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