Panama hat more hats than they ever could in Ecuador. The hats were sold to gold prospectors traveling through Panama to California during the historic Californian Gold Rush. Travelers would tell people admiring their hats that they bought them in Panama. So, the hats quickly became known as “Panama hats.” Soon after at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, Panama hats were featured for the first time on a global scale. However, the Fair’s catalog did not mention Ecuador as its country of origin. It listed this type of hat as a “cloth hat” even though it was clearly not made out
Hats (album) "absolutely superb", David Cavanagh of "Sounds" found that "Hats" differed significantly from "A Walk Across the Rooftops" in both its recording technology and aspired moods. Johnny Black of "Q" noted the more stripped-down nature of the album's songs and praised the band's new direction, stating that "if "Hats" has a flaw, it's only that it's too perfect, too considered." "NME"s David Quantick felt that the album demonstrated the band's flair for writing "incredibly simple-sounding, emotional records about the stuff that fascinates them." Simon Reynolds, writing in "Melody Maker", stated that "only the laziest ear would confuse this crystalline perfection with