Bought the New Yorker 12 years ago - have worn it death. Spoke to Oska and decided on the Fino New Yorker - it is the most gorgeous hat ever! Thanks
Delivered as promised. Fits perfectly. Great communication as well.
I had been doing a lot of research to find this exact hat. The Australian is not your traditional Panama hat, However, it is a true Ecuadorian hand made hat, the style fits me well, and it’s exactly what I was looking for.
I contacted Truffaux with questions and the responses were such that I felt I couldn’t go wrong ordering from this business. They pride themselves in making sure you get the correct fit, tell you what to expect, and make sure your hat stays looking good for a long time.
The box this hat was sent in was sturdy and protected it well, however, because the brim of the hat is arched, the way it laid in the box it flattened the brim and messed up the overall appearance. I believe it will straighten out but I’ll need to work with it to make sure of that.
I would have loved to have this hat in a finer weave but Truffaux assured me this weave is best for this hat.
I’m looking for to wearing this hat for a long time.
Top quality hat and very comfortable to wear! Super quick delivery half way across the world.
The hat is beautiful; well made, well styled, looks great on me. I'm very happy that I found Truffaux.
Oska was super helpful, too, in ensuring that I received the hat in good nick. I live in rural Mexico and some standard shipping methods don't work for me. After explaining this to Oska, he was more than helpful, working with me to find a method that ensured I received the parcel. Do take Oska's sizing advice. While his recommendation was for a size larger than what I normally would wear, I didn't regret taking the advice. The hat fits really well. Thanks again to Oska for your help.
Many thanks to Oska.
Oska was great at suggesting hats for me from photos I sent and ultimately I chose the Golden Traveller. More emails went back and forth over sizing and then a very well packed hat travelled halfway round the world to me, arriving completely unscathed by it's trip. I'm delighted with it and with the service I received from Truffaux and would recommend them to anyone looking for a new hat.
It is really a great hat. After consulting Oska what might fit me well, I decided to go along with his recommendation and it does fit perfectly. Just a handsome great hat. Thanks alot Oska.
The New Yorker is a gorgeous and fantastic hat, don't hesitate! It makes you feel fabulous but its not too posh. It cools your head down, is very confortable to wear, the straw absorbs the sweat. Perfect!
The great interaction with Oksa helped the decission, shipping (around the world) was no problem, the hat arrived in perfect condition. I am very happy!
Handsome hat in just the right size and light as a feather. It arrived halfway across the globe quickly and well packed. Good experience all around.
I got the best Panama hat I have ever had from Truffaux. It exceeds my high expectations. And that is not the only reason I am writing this review. I am pretty fussy, and what I truly appreciated was Oska Truffaux's obvious personal concern that it be the right hat in the right size for me. I picked Truffaux because their web site is impressive about hat making and sizing. And I was right!!
Oksa was very helpful in answering my questions about selecting a panama and sizing. I went with the Cuban at his recommendation and man, it is an amazing hat! It suits my head shape perfectly, I've received lots of compliments on it, but most importantly, it is very light and cools my head astonishingly well. Just the slightest breeze and I've got instant a/c. Thanks Oksa!
I love a panama hat, and have many I rotate through, but don't like travelling with them because they get bent out of shape so easily.
A YouTube search on how to travel with hats led me to Oska's shop and my purchase of The Traveller, which arrived just in time for a 2 week trip to Japan and France.
The hat looks great, fits well (thanks to Oska's email assistance) and handles the rigours of travel better than I thought it would, springing back to shape from all manner of mis-treatment.
Great value for the price, I thoroughly recommend Oska and his hats, especially The Traveller.
The buying process was unbelievable. Placed an order and rapidly received a personal response asking if I had ordered the correct size. Sent in my measurements and it turned out I needed a size larger than what I had ordered. Who knew that hats shrink!
A week or so later the hat was in my hands. Quick considering that it had to make it from Australia to the United States. Tried it on, too big! My wife handed me an envelope which contained foam shims. Three of these and a perfect fit which will allow for shrinkage (hat, not my brain).
Wore it today for the first time other than trying it on. Hardly noticed it was there. Super comfortable. Looks good too!
If you want a piece of garbage with no customer service I guess there is Amazon.
If you want a great hat that will fit, you are in the right place!
Just arrived - absolutely amazing hat! And, I can’t say enough about how helpful Oska was in finding me the right hat, and his customer service is extraordinary. I’ll be buying more.
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Why are Baseball Caps useless in the sun?
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON BASEBALL CAPS
In the hat industry a baseball cap is a novelty item. When it comes to sun protection, its like wearing a bikini on a motorbike - bloody dangerous. Now I am prone to rant about this, but let me say that I feel we can do better!
Sure they can look cute and they are easy to wear, but they don't work as a hat and are far from flattering. Someone has to stop this madness.
In much the same vein as a fez, bike-racing cap or horned Viking helmet, they are kind of ridiculous. But, somehow they have taken over the world as a symbol of coolness. Even in Ecuador, the home of Panama hats, all the locals now wear baseball caps, and it's a great loss of culture. Wherever you go across Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Americas, everyone is wearing a baseball cap.
Sixty years ago there was an enormously complex language of hats, with great diversity across all the regions of the world. Now everyone wears a cheesy piece of polyester, in a sorry attempt to mirror popular culture. If you love baseball, then I can understand it - but something else is going on.
In terms of skin protection, they fail to cover the major parts of your head that are ravaged by the sun - your nose, cheeks, chin, ears and neck. They are 20% of a hat, with 20% of the protection. Many people in the world wear them without understanding that they are mostly useless in the sunshine. It is like wearing a bra for sun protection. Schools and medical associations are pushing hard to have them recognised as the delusional hats they are. The combination of sunscreen and a useless hat is a dangerous delusion.
When I see everyone walking around in a cap, I feel bad for them. They are trying to protect their skin and to look good - but it fails in every aspect. They are the fashion equivalent of a boob-tube - tacky, cheap and ugly.
Not only do they not work, but they make you look dumb. Every person you see in a cap looks 30 IQ points dumber than they do in a real hat. It is the fast food hat for our planet - mass-manufactured, tasteless, and bad for you. But still, it persists.
The worst part of it is that everyone has advertising across the front of their hats. An elegant artform has been reduced to a walking billboard selling someone else's product.
I can understand why children like them, in the same way, they like transformers and teenage mutant ninja turtles. But seeing a middle-aged man in a cap does nothing to inspire you. It just feels immature and sad. If you are an LA rapper with gold teeth, then it makes sense as part of your uniform. If you are a sportsman, executive, golfer or fashionista, it stinks of cheap tragedy.
What really disturbs me is the bland conformity that caps reek of. Whole crowds of people wearing the same thing - the same t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and caps. All with logos smothering them, made out of polyester, poorly fitted and crying out to belong. Maybe it would be OK if it represented something meaningful - but it doesn't - it's just conformity for the sake of fitting in.
Often you see people wearing caps to look younger - even worse; they wear them backwards - instead of looking fresh and cool, they look foolish.
Hats are the most powerful clothing item you can wear - they speak louder than anything else, but what exactly are you saying? Crowning your head, they speak clearly of how you think about yourself. How you feel, what you believe in and how you present yourself to the world.
Hats are your greatest opportunity to say something beautiful and to frame yourself elegantly. To dress your being, and put the icing on the cake. They are your best tool to express yourself, as the unique being that you are.
Now you can do that with a logo baseball cap, or you can do it with a handwoven work of art.
I can't help but choose the latter.
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Truffaux