Closest to a Sunday Afternoons Adventure Hat without being a Sunday Afternoons Adventure Hat?

[Ethan A.]

So I took the bonnet plunge and ordered the Sunday Afternoons Adventure Hat. The coverage is amazing especially for the weight. That said, man that is one ugly hat! Even my wife, who isn't in the least bit vain, thinks it's ugly as heck. That won't stop me (and maybe her) from wearing it, but I'm curious, for all you SA Adventure hat folks out there – what's the closest hat you've tried to an SA Adventure Hat that isn't as gosh darn ugly as one?

The closest I can think of is taking a Tilley-style hat (doesn't have to be Tilly-made) with a 4 in. brim and sewing a tuck-away cape to the back edge of the inside of the brim.

[Kimberly Wersal]

I agree, the coverage and light weight are fantastic. However, I don't actually think it's ugly at all. I know many people will disagree, but I think it looks fine. Maybe you'll learn to like it…?

[Billy Ray]

I think it looks like a girl's hat.

Billy

[Ian]

Yup they ugly. Enough to make an onion cry.

But the doc had to cut some meat off of my neck this year so I'd better buy one.

I think the Tilley hats look kind of sharp.

[W I S N E R !]

I love mine. No sunblock necessary, plenty of ventilation, full coverage. A must in the desert or extended Sierra summer trips. The most comfortable sun hat I know of.

[Theo Diekmann]

I recently picked up an OR Sun Runner. Frankly, it's just another kind of ugly. It's more of a functional-ugly than dorky-ugly compared to the Sunday Afternoons hat. And functionality justifies everything, right?
Joke aside, the hat offers superb sun protection AND can be converted into something that looks like a basecap by taking of the neck-protection-thingy when not needed.

[Katherine .]

I consider my SA bonnet to be more ultra dorky than ugly. Perhaps I'm deluding myself.

I like that I can tuck my ponytail up in it easily. On cap I need to align the back closure just so to fit around, which is a pain and doesn't always work out right.

[d k]

Yep, better on us girls than guys. Check out Sun Precautions hats – some of those, while not drapey in back like the bonnet style, have very wide brims that provide good coverage. I don't find their chin straps (at least on the women's) as well placed as the Sunday Afternoons, though, so I wear them only when I want to be slightly less "bonnet-y".

The Ultra Sun Hat doesn't look TOO awful…or maybe the Ventilated Cotton Sun Hat (although the male model in that one just looks dopey no matter what he's wearing)

http://www.sunprecautions.com/shop/unisex_mens/hats

[Brendan Swihart]

http://tinyurl.com/ndx4m3t

[Lori P]

I have to wear sunscreen with the Adventure Hat – can't hike without it. I also have the smaller Sport version.

If I were concerned with how things look, I wouldn't go backpacking.

[likes hikes]

"If I were concerned with how things look, I wouldn't go backpacking."

Well said.

function>fashion

[Aubrey W. Bogard]

http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Sun-Hat-Reviews

[John S.]

deleted my dumb remarks..lol

[Terran Terran]

If I need the protection,I hang a bandana or a sweat rag. I don't like how the brim of the SA hat blocks my vision. It usually sits in the closet.

[Hiker 9]

The thing I do not like about those type hats is that the long, low brim blocks significant parts of my upper view. Hey, we are out there to enjoy the beauty. I have a wide brimmed Tilley Airflo LTM2 that I like and recently bought an REI Sahara Outback Cape Hat which has the cape in the back. I have not used the cape yet except to try on but seems to hang well. Not sure how it will be in the wind. It has a pocket in the brim to store it in if not needed. It has a conventional wide brim. Probably a little warmer than the Tilley but have not worn it enough to really tell.

REI Hat: http://www.rei.com/product/879772/rei-sahara-outback-cape-hat

[M B]

Patagonia vented spoonbill is similar but a bit smaller, less coverage

Its cape doesnt touch neck, kind of suspends in mid air back there.

[Dale Wambaugh]

The Sunday Afternoons River Guide hat is a more conventional brimmed hat that is very light and gives good protection.

From there, I would look at billed caps with neck capes.

The Adventure hat excels on coverage and the neck cape doesn't hit your pack. It is profoundly ugly, but then so is skin cancer.

[Diane “Piper” Soini]

The thing with the Sunday Afternoon hat is that it looks really good, dashing even, on some people and really dorky and girly on others.

[Jennifer Mitol]

"The thing with the Sunday Afternoon hat is that it looks really good, dashing even, on some people"

Piper, thanks for that.

signed,

lover-of-awesome-words.

[M B]

"The thing with the Sunday Afternoon hat is that it looks really good, dashing even, on some people and really dorky and girly on others."

Might not be the hat.

[Dale Wambaugh]

Nah— the Adventure hat is more like visual birth control. Any prospective partner would be laughing too much to complete the task ;)

Now a Tilley is dashing.

[Anonymous]

"The most comfortable sun hat I know of."

That pales in comparison to the fact that it looks either profoundly ugly or dorky.

Or, worse yet, both. You darn well better not show up wearing that thing in the Kern!

[Bob Gross]

If not the Kern, then where? The Middle Fork of the Kings River?

–B.G.–

[Anonymous]

"If not the Kern, then where? The Middle Fork of the Kings River?"

Close, Bob, but no cigar. Disappearing Creek.

[BlackHatGuy]

Railriders sun sombrero

http://www.railriders.com/sun-sombrero-p-1029.html?cPath=90_101

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