I read several good hat threads on here and I was hoping to get a little more specific advice.
I'm looking for some new hats for this summer. I'm accustomed to wearing a French pith helmet, hand made in Vietnam. It works great -- best hot and sunny weather hat ever. Two problems are it's a bit eccentric in public and I haven't been able to find any good ones to fit my boys (3 and 4).
My wife and boys wear different versions of the Sunday Afternoons Adventure hat (semi soft brim with a soft cape at the back), but the boys don't prefer them too much. In the fall the three of us got some Kangol baseball caps and they greatly prefer those, but the sun protection is insufficient during the summer.
I believe if I can find a matching style of hat, they'll be persuaded to wear what I wear. I looked at Sunday Afternoon, Tilley, OR, Rothco, and so on.
Tilley looks high quality, but it seems as if wearing one might make a person seem to be pretentious. I don't know but the style doesn't seem to suit me. It looks like it would belong better on a man more dashing and adventuresome. I'm more of a nerd.
The smallest kid's T3 would barely fit my 4 year old but not the little one. The KD11 bucket hats would fit both, but they don't have an adult sized bucket.
Sunday Afternoon has buckets, but OR has buckets and a guarantee similar to Tilley's (return or exchange for any reason forever).
Rotcho has the boonie hats that are much less expensive and completely void of any pretense (unless I suppose you wear battle camo head to toe).
I'm looking for some new hats for this summer. I'm accustomed to wearing a French pith helmet, hand made in Vietnam. It works great -- best hot and sunny weather hat ever. Two problems are it's a bit eccentric in public and I haven't been able to find any good ones to fit my boys (3 and 4).
My wife and boys wear different versions of the Sunday Afternoons Adventure hat (semi soft brim with a soft cape at the back), but the boys don't prefer them too much. In the fall the three of us got some Kangol baseball caps and they greatly prefer those, but the sun protection is insufficient during the summer.
I believe if I can find a matching style of hat, they'll be persuaded to wear what I wear. I looked at Sunday Afternoon, Tilley, OR, Rothco, and so on.
Tilley looks high quality, but it seems as if wearing one might make a person seem to be pretentious. I don't know but the style doesn't seem to suit me. It looks like it would belong better on a man more dashing and adventuresome. I'm more of a nerd.
The smallest kid's T3 would barely fit my 4 year old but not the little one. The KD11 bucket hats would fit both, but they don't have an adult sized bucket.
Sunday Afternoon has buckets, but OR has buckets and a guarantee similar to Tilley's (return or exchange for any reason forever).
Rotcho has the boonie hats that are much less expensive and completely void of any pretense (unless I suppose you wear battle camo head to toe).
