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Now, onto sun hats. Happy memorial day! I will be headed out to the Intrepid this weekend to honor our fallen heroes (fyi, they have incredible kids programming on Memorial Day if your little guy is into this sort of thing.) But as this weekend is also the unofficial kickoff to summer, it felt like the right time to get everyone situated with their sunhat(s) for the season.
A recent Instagram scroll landed me on Lotta Volkova (stylist extraordinaire) and her perfectly nondescript sunhat. After screenshotting and sending to my bevy of former market editor sleuths like myself, the reply most apropos was: “She probably bought it on a roadside stand in Greece.”
We never did find the exact hat, but that’s OK! It gave me wanderlust. I love this idea, that your hat has a story – that it was discovered. Not a part of your standard rotation of brands or uniform. This off the beaten path hat gives your well curated travel wardrobe a bit of unexpected, mismatched breeziness. Alas, I do not have any plans to be in Greece this summer (invitations welcome! 😆) so I will have to conquer my sun protection from home, for home.
But it did get me thinking – if we really are going to buy and wear a hat this summer, a) how do we find a hat that gives us a pleasurable sense of discovery or b) what are the the hat features that feel similarly nonchalant from the shoppable internet powers that be?! And c) that we don’t feel silly wearing NOT at the beach.
So today, an obsessively tight edit of the hats that hit the right note. They can be packed, tousled and scrunched. They would not look weird if you wore them in an urban park (some more strategically than others), will look fantastic at the beach, on a boat or a nature walk. And of course, will shield our eyes and noses and sometimes shoulders from the sun.
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