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My kingdom for a hat!

Tanty2Tanty2 Posts: 231
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In anticipation of a long hot summer (ha ha), I need a new hat for when I'm gardening.  I bought 'the ultimate gardening hat' but honestly, it just falls off a lot and doesn't fit well.   Does a hat exist that'll give enough shade so my neck doesn't burn, won't fall off every time I lean forward, and not melt my head in the heat?  I thought about getting a beanie hat with the little brolly on top but, well...dignity, darling, always dignity...
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I've got a black straw trilby style big big on my head though. I have trouble with brain hats,dogs to walk and a cream trench coat,hubby rudely calls my ,,",,culumbo" Mac or ', flashers Mac,but no hood of course. So I bought a plastic rain hat a la vera Stanhope,the rain pouts down your neck and my chin length hair gets set at the bottom
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    No not brain hats I never typed that rain hats
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Sunscreen on your neck?   I loathe hats.  They fall off, slide off, blow off or fall in your eyes so I tie up my hair and use cream as needed.  If it's cold enough to need a hat in winter it's too cold to garden.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    What you need is a French legionnaire's hat, the kind with a flap at the back of the neck!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Not for gardening,do  I have to join the foreign legion then ok,of they'll have me. I tried All the local shops, Black's,fishing shops outdoor shops, nothing water proof
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    My late mother stitched a white cotton handkerchief to the back of an old, England football supporters, cap and wore it everywhere. She did have dementia though.
    West Yorkshire
  • Tanty2Tanty2 Posts: 231
    Pauline 7, I think your mum might have been a genius though with being scottish, not sure the england cap will be first choice!  love the foreign legion idea too, lizzie :)  I suppose I could just wear a baseball cap backwards and give up the notion of dignity and not mind looking like a twit (but a happy twit without sunburn...)
  • Forester_PeteForester_Pete Posts: 175
    I have found Tilley hats to be excellent. I have a winter one and a summer one. if there is any sunshine I need to wear one, or rain wear the other. They shade the neck nicely and stay on in a full gale.. 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I love hats and have caps and brimmed hats for the outside.  The best I bought was in Pokhara, Nepal for trekkers.  Wide brimmed, soft top and back/neck flap.  Parfait!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • the tidy gardenerthe tidy gardener Posts: 591
    My mum stitched some cotton on the back of my old rhs khaki gardening hat.looked on eBay and couldn't get what I wanted they'd all sold out. They do them for kids tho as my nephews had them where they live in Florida.i also wear a thin cotton bandana type scarf round my neck.if it's boiling hot I soak it in cold water. Imagine doing that now in this weather?!!!
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