what's your favorite summer hat/head gear?

I've got to wear a hat to keep the sun off...very pale skin....I love a straw hat most of the time, sometimes a cap with bill.....my old straw has a few years left in it I hope, it is just getting broken in nicely. I've got a new better quality one but it is a tighter weave and too hot in the sun.

Straw hats? caps? head rags? whats your favorite head covering when you can't avoid the sun? post pictures if you can!

I have way too many hats (haven't found the perfect one yet). Already have had to have a couple chunks of skin cancer removed, and don't want to do that again...

I like boonie hats--dip them in the creek and the evaporative cooling is awesome. Ugly though. This one feels cooler than any hat I have tried, it catches the breeze really well: http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/mens-accessories/headwear-mn/70508.aspx

A couple father's days ago I got this as a "dress" hat: http://www.villagehatshop.com/product/straw-hats/451139-88274/delta-straw-hat.html
It is fake straw, hopefully recycled, but it is WASHABLE straw. It has outlasted any other straw hat I have ever had. A little tight in the weave though. Cooler than most of the mesh and canvas style hats, though.

R. Scott.....The 'boonie' I didn't know it had a name. That is my husband's favorite hat...he can stuff it in a pocket and run it through the wash when it gets too sweaty or dip in the creek... and yeah...a little goofy looking, maybe.
I've had several removals too ...nothing like that to make you conscientious about staying out of the sun.

When it gets buggy... I use this light weight army mosquito head gear.

bandanas help keep the sweat out of my eyes:

Life guard hat. I've had this one for about 8 years. Works well in the southern california heat.

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R Scott wrote:I have way too many hats (haven't found the perfect one yet).  Already have had to have a couple chunks of skin cancer removed, and don't want to do that again...

I like boonie hats--dip them in the creek and the evaporative cooling is awesome.  Ugly though.  This one feels cooler than any hat I have tried, it catches the breeze really well:  http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/mens-accessories/headwear-mn/70508.aspx

A couple father's days ago I got this as a "dress" hat:  http://www.villagehatshop.com/product/straw-hats/451139-88274/delta-straw-hat.html
It is fake straw, hopefully recycled, but it is WASHABLE straw.  It has outlasted any other straw hat I have ever had.  A little tight in the weave though.  Cooler than most of the mesh and canvas style hats, though.  

That first hat belongs to me as well! It's great and provides a lot of coverage, which my pale skin appreciates. It also keeps its shape, which is something that not all floppy hats do. To be honest, I tend to wear it in slightly more formal settings. However, I live in the Pacific Northwest, where trucker caps are the casual hat of choice.

I keep my hair long.  My long-haired brother gave me some "neck gaiter" things that are basically a stretchy fabric tube.  Makes it easy to twist all my hair up out of the way on hot days, and a hat fits over it for the sun.   I have a floppy sun hat that looks like straw, but is actually somehow made from recycled paper.  Sun hat makes a huge difference on a sunny day.

The very first hat I ever owned was one like this:


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I've owned several straw cowboy hats, though I am not really a hat person.

My favorite is the sombrero.

I am not a hat person either, but I find myself wearing a straw one this  year.

In the climate of the Netherlands a hat is not needed often. It was hard to find a photo of me wearing a sun hat. But when I go on a bicycle tour in summer, I take a hat with me. And here I am wearing one (photo made by someone else).

I do have more hats. Like a small collection ;-) . Both summer hats and winter hats (most of them the knitted beanie-type).

I live in a palm hat-making region, so I almost always wear palm hats. I also live at about 3000 ft above sea-level and well south of the Tropic of Cancer, So I get you about "too hot". The secret is to wear a bandana under the hat. This both makes the hat sit a bit tighter on your head, helping to keep it on on a windy day, and also soak up the sweat that your head is producing inside the hat. When it's really hot, completely wet the bandana and put it back on for a cooling effect.

I admit I am a hat collector, but mostly by accident. I keep trying to find another one as good as this. This is my go to and I have had it for years.  Some of you may have even seen it in person. It has a built in size adjuster so it's comfortably snug even on rather breezy days.  The brim is wide enough to shade my whole neck yet stiff enough to stay above my necessary field of vision. It's starting to come apart at the seams and I can sew well enough to continue using it in the garden, but I don't think I can recover the crisp sharpness that alway left me feeling stylish if somewhat quirky as I ran around town.

I went to find a link to company that made it, and turns out there's a sale... quick somebody hide my wallet.

https://www.sunnsand.net/hcj342/  That's the closest I see to this one.  I was actually shocked how little the teal accents clashed with my clothing.  I am the only hat wearer in the family except when I force them on the girls during long days in the sun.  They have left many of my hats out in the rain.  I still make them wear them in the garden but this one they can't touch.

By the way, you are all too slow.  That hat's going to be mine.  

Casie Becker wrote: https://www.sunnsand.net/hcj342/  That's the closest I see to this one.  
By the way, you are all too slow.  That hat's going to be mine.

It's made in China! Don't do it!

Here is my big straw hat, made in Mexico. $10 at any border crossing. Shades shoulders as well as face and neck.