Hypothetically, what type of sunhat would a Scandinavian architect wear?

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I've spent lockdown sorting out my wardrobe into a coherent style and I feel like I've sort of nailed it (for me..... it was starting from a low point).

Now on this gloriously sunny day I'm thinking ahead to the summer and I will definitely need something to keep the sun off my face. I've also started using retinol so that is another consideration. I use factor 50 every day like I should, of course.

So please help me. Do Scandinavian architects wear hats in the sun? Could they ever? If they did, what might such a hat look like?

I'm thinking it might be neat and small brimmed. But slightly quirky, not quite symmetrical, maybe. Where might I shop for such a hat? Does anybody know, please?

I am tall and size 8... and cool toned so I'm thinking neutral or navy.

Or would a Scandinavian architect never wear a hat at all? PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Yes Toast

I LOVE THIS THREAD.

I know exactly what you're aiming for, OP, but I'm not 100% sure how it translates into real life. Something similar to the straw Cos/Maxmara ones linked above, or a Panama, do spring to mind. Maybe a Panama-type one with your own ribbon/silk scarf?

I have a rollable Panama with a plain black band that's very handy, and also a sort of crushable straw/paper one that's bit 50s Italian film star that I only wear by the pool/on the beach in forrin climes. I'm not generally a hat person (I've got too much hair) but I'm jealous of those who are.

To the pp who mentioned about camping next to a superhuman Danish family - we've gone this so many times, and it's always the Scandis, the Dutch or sometimes the Germans 😁 we're quite a fair-skinned, blonde, outdoorsy family and we often get assumed to be German on camping hols to Italy or France, but our true nature reveals itself pretty quickly!!

Actually, apols for hijacking but if anyone knows what kind of black jersey wide-legged short-sleeeved jumpsuit a Scandi architect might wear that would be v helpful, thank you...

Thank you so much everyone! I'm just catching up on the links now. The added difficulty of course, with online shopping, is not knowing what one will look like in any of these hats. Will I be channeling a Swedish architect on her holidays or a flower pot man? Hard to say!

My own take on MN architect thing (yes it came from old thread about Cos) is a bit drapey, a bit structural. Simple clothes like a shirt but with added detail like a pleat in the back.

Parasol OP???? Or is that too ‘Japanese architect’ for the look you’re after??

I LONG for a parasol because I loathe all hats (on me; love them on other people) and burn even if I wear high SPF. I’ve seen some stunners but a) they’re very expensive, unless you go for either paper (no spf) or a ghastly bridal little bo-peep horror, and b) I don’t know if I would look like a total wally with one.

Might be worth pursuing though? I reckon a confident Scandi architect could totally work a parasol

This thread has made my morning. I have nothing to add, but am following for links as I too am on the retinol and will need something to shade my delicate face.

Loved the Danish camping story. Genetically superior legs!

I’m Norwegian, however not stylish.. Off the top of my head (no phun intended) I rarely see anyone wearing hats at all in the summer!

I've thought about this too! Here is the hat I think fits the bill - it was at Toast but past season. It was horrendously expensive so I didn't get it, but I did buy a plain similar cheap canvas bucket hat and orange woven cotton tape to make a facsimile - still waiting to be finished but I'll get back onto it in the spring.

architect hat

We once stayed at a lovely Dutch campsite - felt SO inferior. Everyone else looked like a Boden model and they had fancy canopies and techno teepee-style tents that I've never seen for sale in the UK (or online). And yes to the legs. All bronzed, toned and muscular and displayed in tiny shorts. (They didn't get to see my legs as I wore a maxi dress)

other than Melania Trump's interpretation of "white saviour chic".

How did you get all that from a straw hat?

All I got from it was - 160 quid for a fucking hat???

Well I'm Danish and I'm very curious as to how you imagine a Scandinavian architect, let alone scandies. When I look around me, we are a wide range of looks, heights and weights. The way you portray yourselves you are either hobit-like or haven't met many scandies 😂.

Of course there are general looks and behaviors for certain regions, but I think you are selling yourselves short here.

And for being organized (as a stereotype) no one beats the Germans 😀.

I bought a panama hat from M&S a couple of summers ago, to look effortlessly chic on holiday, as I'd decided I was too old for baseball caps. Only to discover that the idiots had lined it in nylon. Sweaty.

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Thank you so much everyone! I'm just catching up on the links now. The added difficulty of course, with online shopping, is not knowing what one will look like in any of these hats. Will I be channeling a Swedish architect on her holidays or a flower pot man? Hard to say!

My own take on MN architect thing (yes it came from old thread about Cos) is a bit drapey, a bit structural. Simple clothes like a shirt but with added detail like a pleat in the back.

Things that they pay somebody else to faff around ironing. Got it.

I've bought from here in the past

Something like this www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08T6Q7RSN/ref=twister_B08T63X5TB?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

This is quite interesting. I’m married to a Scandinavian architect. He wears a really ugly sun hat, but it’s very good quality, functionally perfect, and has a life time guarantee. No getting rid of it then.

My immediate thought was a Van Gogh straw hat.
As a PP suggests.

If you have rejected COS (and that yellow hat does come in Mole Grey, which is surely as architect as you can get) what about the selection of wildly overpriced bandanas from Toast? www.toa.st/uk/product/womens+hats+scarves+and+gloves/f2qae/bird+print+cotton+bandana.htm?clr=F2QAE_Ginger_sw

Amusingly I do know some Scandinavian architects and all the above descriptions are great!

The most authentically Scandinavian architect I know wears a baseball hat.

I'm going to get a sun visor this year.

I was going to say Parasol. I have one that I picked up in Japan.

Or a wide brimmed floppy bucket hat.

Also - whatever Monty Don wears is probably a good bet.
I favour an excessively wide brimmed hat but the resultant look is less Scandinavian architect and more 'death on the nile'

Practical, structured, reversible

belize.desertcart.com/products/124742571-faro-dor-women-reversible-bucket-hat-uv-sun-protection-wide-brim-foldable-floppy-bucket-hat

No idea how to get one here...!

Ah there you are, more colours too

www.wish.com/gb/product/anti-uv-wide-brim-cotton-linen-sun-hat-for-women-vacation-summer-panama-foldable-bucket-hat-large-brim-korean-beach-sun-hat-5cde8873889fb56b6faa4e39

Very funny. Esp the baseball hat comment. And death on the Nile. Arf.

@StewardsEnquiry from where is the black trousers and white shirt pic from your last posting? That is my sort of look, love it! But re Scandinavian architect DH, were he a woman, he’d wear expensive but ugly comfortable shoes (form and function of equal importance to him, sadly).