Chasing Down Panama Hats in Old San Juan

Ndakanzwa nezvezvi $ 6,000 zvepaPanama zvipfeko muSan Juan, Puerto Rico - mavoko akabatwa, zvirokwazvo (ndaizotarisira zvakadaro). Izvo, ndaifanira kuona, kunyange kana kutenga chaiyo kwaingova kungoenda kunofadza.

Ole Curiosidades paCalle Fortaleza (Fortaleza St.) muSan San Juan igodo duku, rine musuo wakamanikana mumugwagwa wakamanikana. Asi kupinda kwayo kunononoka kunokanganisa pfuma mukati: pamwe nemhando ye -one-a-kind knick-knacks uye zvigadziriswe (sezvinonzi moniker curiosidades iwe waunofungidzira), dhi rino rinonyanya kugadzirwa nemaoko, rakagadzirirwa zvikapu zvePanama.

Pasinei nezita rayo, mapatya ePanama ndiwo Ecuadorian. Apo pavakatanga kutengeswa muzana remakore rechigumi nemapfumbamwe, vakatumirwa kuPanama vasati vaenda kunzvimbo dzavo dzokupedzisira munyika yose. Saka nyika yose yakatanga kuvadana panama hats.

Panama hatso muOlé inowanzogadzirwa nemaoko muEcuador. Muna 2012, hutsika hwetsika hwekunyora hwakawedzerwa kune UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, yakagadzirirwa kubvuma uye kuchengetedza kukosha kwe "zvisingaoneki" -kusati zvisizvo zvezvinhu. Kunyange zvazvo chikwata chePanama chiri chinhu, nzira yezvisikwa zvayo, tsika dzekugadzira mbatya (iyo yakadzokera kare muzana remakore rechi17) haisi.

Chikwata chePanama ndicho chifukidziro chakakwana chezhizha: ruvara-ruvara, ruvara, uye runogadzirwa nemashizha anofema. Asi zvakasiyana nehope dzezhizha dzinoti vaAmerica vanozivikanwa zvikuru, Panama zvikoti zvakadzika, zvinonongedza zviri nyore, uye zvinoshamisa. Ivo vakaita sehutongi fedoras.

Zvinosuruvarisa kuti Ole akanga atengesa kubva kune $ 6,000 hovha, pamwe chete ne $ 4,000 uye $ 5,000. Kunyange zvakadaro, zvichiri kusara-pasinei nekivha uye kiyi, mukati megirasi-paiva ne $ 3,000 panama hats.

"Sei mumwe munhu akabhadhara $ 3,000 nehope?" Ndakanyunyuta shamwari yangu. "Uchaona kana iwe uchibata," akadaro.

Muchengeti wezvitoro akanyatsobudisa imwe yehapi kuti tibate.

Izvozvo zvakanga zvakanaka kwaari, sezvo zvichida zviri pachena kuti taisazoenda kunotenga. Hapana mumwe weboka redu akaidza izvi, asi isu takabata zvose. Zvaishamisa: kutarisa uye kuchena pasi peminwe. Hasha yakanga ine ruvara rwakakura, rwakayerwa pasina, asi rwakanga rwakasimba uye yakasimba.

Dai ndakanga ndisina mari ye $ 3,000, ini zvachose ndingadai ndakatenga iyo hat.

Pane kudaro, ndakatenga $ 60 hovha, iyo ine mari mukuenzanisa, asi yakanyanyisa zvikuru kwandiri. Yakatanga sejoke risina njodzi. Vatatu veavo vari muboka redu vose vanoti vaine misoro mikuru. Takave nekuratidzwa.

Muchengeti wacho akatora chimwe chitarisiko kwandiri, akatora chikwata paairatidza, ndokuchiisa pamusoro wangu. Akarinyorera: pa 59 masentimita (American hat size 7½), yakanga yakakwana zvakakwana. Yakagara pamusoro mangu zvakasimba zvakanyatsonaka, uye yakanga yakakwana kwezuva, zuva re-80-degree. Ndakazviyemura ini mugirazi; Ndakatarisa mhepo. Ndakatengeswa.

Ipapo ndakaona kuti ndinogona kuifanidza nekusarudza kubva kune vanopfuura gumi nemaviri nevarume uye kusarudzwa kwezvokugadzirisa zvemavara. Ndakasarudza chibvumirano chepamusoro, chisi-ne-white plaid pattern uye chinyoreso chechi cinch.

Nenguva yatakabuda kunze kwechitoro, mhepo yainge yatora saka mukati mukati memaawa masere makumi matanhatu ekutenga ichi chakanaka, chichimbidzika, chikafu chinoputika, chakanga chichibva pamusoro mangu uye mumigwagwa ye Old Old Juan.

Ndakanyarara uye ndakadzingirira. Hondo yacho yakabhururuka mumugwagwa, kunze kwandaizosvika, kusvikira yakatorwa pasi pemotokari yakanga ichangobva kumira kumativi ose.

Ndakagadzirirwa zvakanyanya, ndakapoteredza motokari kunzvimbo iyo, ndinoonga, chikwata changu chakanaka chakanga chichidzokera mumugwagwa. Yakamira kuti igare mumvura, uye ini ndakaibata.

Ndakadzivirira ngowani yangu nehupenyu hwangu nokuda kwezvasara zvezuva racho. Uye handina kubvumira kuenda pairi ndichifamba kumba.

Ndinotarisira nguva yemazhizha , apo ini ndinogona kupfeka ngowani yangu nekudada, godo revakidzani vangu, ndichironga nemashoko ekuti ndakaita sei ndakarasikirwa ne $ 60 Panama chikwata, uye kuti ndinoonga sei kuti ndisina kushandisa $ 3,000 muhombodo iyo yakabhururuka ikapinda mumvura.

(Kune avo vamuri kumirira nemhepo yekufema nokuda kwemigumisiro yemusoro mukuru wekutsvaga: kunyadzisa, musoro wangu waiva muduku kudarika: Charlotte aiva nemakore makumi matanhatu naSara paakazunungusa 62.)