Traditional fedora-style hats run the risk of being damaged in your suitcase and are impossible to pack. It's why you spot people wearing elaborate hats at airports — it's easier than packing them.

Kobey’s began selling straw hats in the Fedora style beginning in 1924 and, later, Fedora-“shaped” Panama hats in 1927. The Isis theater showed the movie “Fedora” in 1918. It was a silent movie of the ...