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Broad-brimmed hats were mostly done in straw. A very large percentage of the portraits we have archived show these broad-brimmed hats done in straw. There were also felt hats, but the staw hats were more common. Presumably cost was the principal factor here. We are not sure where these hats were acually made. Ecuador was famous for high-quality straw hats, often called Panama hats. We do not know if these hats were made in Ecuador or in the Unied States. We also see different colors. Most seen done with natural straw colors. Other hats had dark-colored straw. This was done in a variety of ways. We see these hats wth patterns woven with the different-colored straw. Notice how the straw hat on the previous page used light and dark straw intermixed. Here we see a fifferent color used on the crown (figure 1). We can only discern light and dark colors. We are not sure what actual color the dark straw was. We think somewere black, but looking at the portraits, some look like colors, perhaps blue or brown. Here we are just not sure.
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