“Palacios showed me an unfinished Panama in his workroom with an audacious 4-1/2 inch brim. He measured my head, and after a half-hour of ironing, steaming, sewing, it was done. The brim was not only ample but wavy, as if designed by Frank Gehry. The tab: $180.
“Back at the office, my colleagues masked their envy with derision.”
—Bloomberg reporter Philip Boroff, recounting his purchase of an extravagant summertime hat. (“Some hats, they form in your hand like soft clay, explains Orlando Palacios, purveyor of extravagant hats. “Others are like an animal. All have their own temperament.”)
