Care of the Panama hat 1. Hydrates your Panama hat when you notice that your hat becomes dry and rigid, apply water vapor from an iron to a certain distance. In this way, your hat will gain flexibility and you will notice less brittle. 2. Stains since straw is a fiber very similar to paper, using a eraser rubber (of the classic Milan), most spots will disappear. However, there are others that need a little more morning. In these cases, try to remove it by a soft sponge moistened with coconut soap and water. If this did not work, it is better to take it to an expert hatter to make a diagnosis of the possible repair. 3. When you put on your hat, do not press the cup with your fingers. If you make a clamp with your fingers in the area of the Cup every time you take away and put your Panama, it may sooner or later break and escape, since it is the most delicate area of the hat. Therefore, the ideal is to put it on and take it well taking it through the wing or manipulating it for the cup with delicacy, subtlety and softness. 4. Tape and Badana Always clean to remedy it, by means of a cotton rag moistened with coconut soap and water, frosty the fabric where those spots of unwanted sweat have formed. Once this is done, use the steam of the iron to be perfect again. 5. Heat and Panama If you expose it to high temperatures (like the interior of a car), the heat will dry a fabric like the toquilla straw. Solution? Avoid leaving or saving your hat in places that reach excessive temperatures. 6. Water and Panama Panama are hats that are used for times where the sun can cause discomfort. Therefore, they are not waterproof to rain. If it ends up wetting for any circumstance, you have to find a clean cloth and then dry it naturally in a ventilated place. To avoid deformations, never use direct heat sources such as dryers, radiators or heaters. Neither do you leave your wet Panama under the sun's rays, or will it assume! 7. How to keep them to keep an intact Panama hat use a hat with the right measure to save and protect it. With it you will prevent the hat from receiving blows and deforms or breaks over the pressure of other objects.