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Hat Style Guide Bucket Hats – A soft, crushable sun hat with a wide brim. It can provide casual style to your warm weather wear. It comes in a variety of materials but most common are cotton, canvas or denim. It’s a great versatile style for a variety of activities. Some bucket hats have grommet holes on each side to provide ventilation. Other names for bucket hats are Beani hats and Fishermans hats. Fedora Hats –Fedora’s can be recognized by the crease along the crown and pinched sides. Originally made out of felt, Fedoras now also comes in of various breathable natural straw and fiber materials. Making it the perfect hat for warm weather climates. A fedora straw sun hat can be dressed up or down for most any occasion. See our Fedora Style Hats. Floppy Hats – As the name implies a floppy hat has an unstructured floppy brim. Sometimes the brim can be molded to the shape you’d like. Floppy hats come in wide variety of colors and materials. They are a fun and glamorous addition to any outfit. Packable Sun Hats – A sun hat designed to travel. They keep their shape after being folded down or gently packed in a suitcase. Picture Hats – A hat with an extra wide brimmed hats popularized in the1930’s by classic movie stars such as Audrey Hepburn . A picture hat will add a glamerous fashion statement by the pool or beach and the wide brim gives you excellent sun protection. Straw Hats – A straw hats is a woven brimmed hat using natural plant materials such as Raffia, Milan, Toyo and Seagrass. Straw hats are made in a variety of styles. Tightly woven straw hats have excellent sun protection. Sun Protection Hats – A sun hat that protects you from the harmful sun rays. Many hats give you some sun protection but for guaranteed sun protection look for the UPF50+ symbol. Visors – A visor consist of a bill much like that of a baseball hat. It does not have a top (with the exception of some excellent zip off visor/hat combination now on the market) and does not protect your neck from the sun. Some people prefer visors as they do not flatten your hair and doesn’t get as warm as a hat or a cap. For the best sun protection look for a wrap around visor that will give shade to your ears as well as face and nose. See our Sun Visor Hats Western Sun Hats –
This style takes is inspiration from the cowboy hat . Today’s Fashion industry has embraced the
western style buy using fun interesting materials, colors and accents to create
chic western style hats paying homage to the classic cowboy hat. |