It's pretty! Did you get the pink one?!?!?

I would need a hat the weight of a handkerchief to stand it on my head in the sun. Maybe that's why people use straw hats? It's cute. Hope it works for you.

I like it! I have one. I call it my floppy hat. I've actually never worn it. I wear low-dome baseball like hats. I wear hats ALL the time! And....I wear bandanas ALL the time....under the hat. Otherwise I would sweat on the hat.

That's very similar to my gardening hat. I actually like it when I'm pulling weeds because it also keeps the sun out of my eyes and I can see better than with sunglasses on.

As my Aunt Sarah used to say, "May you wear it in good health!"

I like that kaths!

I just picked up a straw hat to wear in the garden. It's wide brimmed and rather floppy, but not too floppy. I'm not sure I like it just yet, but it provides good coverage.

I never thought twice about being out in the sun w/out a hat, but do now. Just a few weeks ago, I had a pretty good sized basal-cell carcinoma removed from my chin. You can bet I'll be slathering in sunscreen as well as wearing a hat!

Amylou, there's no pink one. Purple or blue. I got the blue one because the purple one took 2 or 3 weeks longer to get to me.

The fabric is sunblocking, which is part of the reason I got it.

Oh, it looked pink in the picture. The blue one is pretty too though!

I also have a similar hat, and I keep it in my car. I have straw hats that I keep in the house to wear when I go outside.

I have had melanoma also, and so I do not go in the pool until 5 or 6 PM, depending on the time of year, so that I can avoid sunlight. I avoided the sun as a child, and when I was a teenager, I had a huge Mexican sombrero (that I got in San Antonio) that I would wear when I was forced to drive a tractor in the fields. I also wore long-sleeved shirts, gloves, and sunglasses (in 106° weather) and managed to stay pasty white all summer. My main concern was that I did not want to get freckles, and my father took me to the doctor because he thought I looked anemic.

Unfortunately, in my 20s, I did go out in the sun, and this is probably why I developed melanoma recently. I see my dermatologist every six months now.

I lived in the sun as a child. My face and arms are very sun damaged. I've had a small basel cell cancer taken off my face years ago. I need to make another appointment to get checked out. Most of the bad looking skin is from gardening on and off for the past 30 years. I do wear sunscreen but wish I had worn long sleeved shirts and hats for all those years.

A nice sun hat. I have a few fabric sun hats, I need a hat for swimming too. Most of mine are straw hats. Sun hats can be fun and pretty. Every summer I collect a few.

I want to see your hats too! :-)

Kathy, I am sure you will collect more sun hats in the future.

Like Arcy, I am always on the lookout for a lightweight hat, and the perfect one would allow some air flow. The only one I have found so far is this one from Panama Jack:

Seven Seas Mesh Safari hat

But I would like something more feminine and in the colors like Kathsgrdn's hat.

Just saw a sun hat like Seven Sess Mesh Safari at TJ tonight, it marked down to $13.