For men's stylish straw hats (or to be more specific, shantung straw hats), boy are you in luck! Dobbs delivers in spades. First, there's The Dobbs Center Dent, a panama fedora. It's very close to being a stingy brim at 2 1/8 inches, so you know the sharp silhouette you'll be getting here. For those not yet wise to the ways of straw, note bene: shantung straw actually isn't straw at all but rather a man-made handwoven glazed paper yarn. If we're talking a shantung weave, however, that just means that the material (natural or otherwise) is woven in a manner to give a rougher, nubby texture, a perfect example being The Stylin. Now, you know. Next on the list of impressive hats come the milan fedoras: the pinch front Harvey in your choice of Copper, Seafoam or White; The Winner, a tasty florentine milan snap brim summer hat for men; and the two-tone Dobbs Toledo. Traditional homburgs, complete with rolled brim and center crease, are also available in Panama Shantung. Some sizes are available with black hat band and other sizes with white, but only a few have both, and the looks are radically different. Luck of the draw, people, don't complain. Anyway, it's not all light or white and it's not even all straw. The Steve Harvey Collection of Dobbs Hats offers a great linen newsboy too, called The Big Apple. [more]