“Hat Refusal - Panama Diktats and the travelling hat experiment”- Part II - more issues with inflight Panama hats wearers- the ‘leavers-on’ contingent Full story on TheRowStance.co.uk direct linkage in bio of @TheRowStance. Snippets of Panama hatitude below “Hat-packing for travel had be investigated, as I flatly refuse to join the ranks of Panama pillocks sporting theirs complacently while migrating to Tuscany. Cant bare those straight-up, clear-conscious middle Englander chino-sods. Admit am repelled by their ‘enflightled’ button-down Oxford smug, lack of shame on the plane. Level-pegging on the naff stakes are low-end titfer-twats wearing roughly hewn, skinny-brimmed straw hats while on root to Magaluf, dressed permanently in pokey knee length denim shorts, hoddies and other such infantile garb. These shoddy, thick straw trilbies with gappy weaves and cheap bands, evoke Chas and Dave eating cockles and whelks in Margate (...scuppering my string bag clams & parsley purchasing in a wide brimmed Monticristo fantasy)... “I’ve felt the urge to wear a Panama hat while on holiday abroad these last summers. Largely to protect my half-redhead complexion from hot sun, as I’m certainly not donning a bucket hat or other juvenile regalia at my age. And while sun defence is a practical need, truth told I actually fancy dropping some Panama style stances. But potential for protection and style are not a problem. It’s transporting the awkward so-and-sos that’s the burning issue.. “I’ve heard claims Panama hats aren’t packable as their fragile structure of finely woven Toquilla straw cracks and breaks easily. But this is scare-millongering, surly?.. “Compelled by scorn and resentments, I have conducted experimental missions to mainland Europe, packing my Anderson & Sheppard Panama gently ‘folded’ into my hand luggage. I can confirm this utterly buggers them up. Panamas do crack. Scar, dent and fracture... Stubbs out. #PanamaHatExperiment