Do you wear a sunhat?

[TinyGang]

After all, we're always on at the children to wear one.

I'd like to but caps make me look like a schoolboy, and everything else makes me look like a bonkers hippie or overdressed, like I'm going to a wedding.

Any suggestions? (Other than a paper bag on my head)

no

Same problem as you, so no , I don't. Kids always do.

I have been on the look out for a nice sunhat - one that is neither a cap or a wedding hat

Im still looking!

i don't understand why children have to have them, i mean don't we lose heat from the top of our heads? my son always takes his off.

how about the ones that just have a band with a visor on it, i quite like those!!

Yes i do, otherwise I get headaches in the sun.

I once got sunburn along my parting!! That was v v painful, so now I tend to wear a bandana when I am on holiday which cover DD's do too, but sometimes they wear hats with visors so keep the sun out of their eyes, whereas I wear sunnies. DH wears an aussie hat, which sometimes nick too. I also will take a straw cowboy hat on hols this year, just cos they look cool with a swimsuit and sarong :)

I wear a man's slightly Panama-ish straw hat - something linke \link{http://www.jameslock.co.uk/prod2.taf?groupId=100262&_UserReference=5BD0740A4B0202534492AB1E\this} but in straw not Panama. Looks mildly unusual but actually suits me. V handy for shading eyes as I haven't got round to buying prescription sunglasses yet.

Originally bought it for honeymoon in Egypt - DH wears a waxed cotton bush hat so together we looked like a pair of 19th century explorers!

that is very sophisticated mrs badger, a beautiful hat!

I got a cheapie one out of asda the other day and it looks rather nice on. Bit like a trad boys sunhat, with the rim all the way round, but the sides are ruched and in in in light brown. Was rather pleased with myslef.

well it's not actually that one, SEAstra - did you see the price?!

I'd love to be able to wear sunhats but I just look ridiculous in any kind of hat!

oh yes! still a great design

Hmm - I like the panama but I don't think it's me. Mind you I haven't tried one, so I'll have a go if I see one.

Hey, I could get one and hang corks on it?! Maybe not

\link{http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Nike-Baseball-Cap-Beige-BNWT_W0QQitemZ104751599989QQcategoryZ52366QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\I have been wearing this for the past few days} with my hair pulled through the back like a right chav
Keeps the sun off my face and stops me squinting in the bright sun.

Yes,now that I am 39 and don't wish to look like a cat's arse.
Also F50 sunblock.

No, I don't do hats!

I always wear hats. Winter and summer.

It does make it easier to get the kids to wear hats. Now if only DH would wear a hat in summer ...

sometimes, a chocolate brown small brimmed straw type number (sort of straw crochet hybrid), £4 in Woolies.

Never

i'd like one of those indie hats ala liam gallagher, but cant find one in red anywhere...

Well I tried a straw sort of panama one on today and it looked pretty good surprisingly. Still not sure if I've got the bottle to wear one though, I reckon it'd draw comments on me. Maybe not school run style for me

Never without one - winter or summer. At first I was very self-conscious about wearing hats, and chose the plainest and smallest I could find, but now I've got the taste for them, and some years they're quite flamboyant. One year I had a wide-brimmed white 'straw' hat with daisies embroidered on the crown in fluorescent multi-coloured rafia. Another year I had a fabric hat that seemed to be folded up on itself around the crown, with a stiff little brim all the way around.

Once you get used to wearing hats regularly, they become quite part of you. We only feel self-conscious because they're uncommon nowadays.

And I do get comments, very frequently. Mostly they're complimentary, but occasionally they're teasing and I choose to misunderstand them and beam back as if I've been complimented.

Yes but like PC I love hats! shop around for one that really suits you and enjoy! you do feel a bit self conscious to start with but you soon don't think twice about it.