JMC Enterprises Ltd having specialized in manufacturing knitted headwear for men, women and children, provides you following information:
The Bollman Hat Co. factory in Lancaster County, Pa., rumbles and shudders, churning and pounding wool into dense felt for headgear as if naked noggins all over the nation were in dire need of a covering, a fedora, a fez or a 10-gallon hat. Of course, they are not. Hats left high office with Eisenhower. And that - along with cheap imports - is part of the reason Bollman is one of just a handful of hat makers surviving out of the hundreds that once operated in the United States. "When JFK was president, he didn't wear a hat, and that had an influence on men," said Bob DePasqua, a Bollman department head and 30-year employee at the factory. Still, men's hats and millinery thrive as accessories, costumes, personal statements, safety wear, sunshades, rain deflectors, fish-hook storage racks and bald-spot concealment devices. |
