Panama Hat in Bleached

The Yorkie is a Panama with a point of view. Sharing the same Grade 4 Ecuadorian weave and Oxfordshire finishing as the rest of the Christys' Panama range, it announces itself differently — a black and red band that makes no attempt at restraint, worn by someone who already knows exactly what they like.

Each hat begins as a rough cone of hand-woven toquilla straw, shaped by a weaver in Ecuador using the traditional techniques that have defined the finest South American hats for centuries. The Grade 4 weave produces a straw of real texture and presence — finer than an everyday holiday hat, honest in its construction and entirely made by hand from the first row of straw to the last.

The hood then travels to Christys' factory in Oxfordshire, where it is soaked, stretched and blocked by hand over a wooden form — the same process used since the earliest days of English hat-making. Blocking sets the crown geometry and brim line precisely before the finishing begins. The black ribbon band is applied cleanly at the base of the crown, finished with a red bow — a combination that sits somewhere between sporting tradition and deliberate irreverence.

A Panama is, at its best, an expression of character rather than convention. The Yorkie wears that conviction openly and makes no apology for it.