FINDING A DECENT HAT IS HARD
Truffaux began because we just couldn't find any decent hats. Sometimes the vintage ones were perfect, but they were always too small. If we bought a new one, we just couldn't work it out - too many choices - no way of knowing what they looked like - no decent stores around - and the online options were even worse.
One day we left to live in Ecuador for a year (as you do) - leaving our hat collection at home, because we thought it would be easy in 'hat heaven' to get what we wanted. To our horror, the only way we could get a decent hat was to design one ourselves. So off we went across the Amazon, Cuba & Central America - and everywhere we went the locals and other travellers kept asking where we got the hat from. So we just took the idea further ..... all the way.
The Truffaux is the distilation of our deep passion for hats, and the accumulation of a lot of experience in pursuing that passion.