stingy at just 1 1/8 inches, and it's upturned too. Trimmed with a grosgrain ribbon and pin, it's finished with a leather sweatband for comfortable wear.

Back by demand is The Cabo (a snap brim vented fedora one happy customer calls a favorite) and yet another example of the great hats Dobbs offers, this one with a slim contrast trim and soft, pliable finish. Vented men's hats are popular warm weather hats, and you'll find a nice sample from Dobbs in addition to The Cabo with a hat called The Cabolito, a very stingy 1 3/4 inch brim fedora handsomely trimmed with a grosgrain band, bow and Dobbs signature pin.

There's no venting with The Rosebud, a pinch front, snap brim milan fedora with tonal grosgrain trim and a brim that's just over two inches. The vibrant color makes this hot straw hat very cool, in the same way that the color of the trim on The Dobbs Center Dent, a shantung Panama hat, makes it stand out. The hat is in Natural, with the hat band a vivid blue. Strikingly simple.

You haven't experienced Dobbs Hats until you take a look at their center crease fedora called The Parker. It's as smooth as it gets in Florentine milan straw with a stingy snap brim with smart ribbon band and pin. Then there's the statement-making Toledo in two-tone Milan straw braid, a pinch front fedora with 2 1/2 inch brim and grosgrain trim. It's already proved extremely popular this season, as has The Kingston, a classic gambler hat with telescope crown and generous pencil-rolled brim.

It's hard to pick favorites among Dobbs hats for men, but The Naples is a snap brim fedora in Florentine milan braid that I really like, and you can read the five-star reviews to see what other people think. It's lightly ventilated for extra comfort and has a tasty tone-on-tone ribbon band with Dobbs pin. Of course, there's also The Basino, a gambler-inspired straw fedora in a 1x1 shantung weave with a rolled brim and constrast band that looks really good on, as well as The Eldorado, a traditional homburg in shantung with classic center crease, which one customer called "attractive protection," saying: "For a cool head in the hot sun, this hat fills the bill." You be the judge.