Bucket Hat

Soft Summer Protection

If you are looking for the perfect summer hat to add to your collection or just to keep the heat of the midday sun off of your head, you should pick yourself up a bucket hat. This simple cloth hat is currently enjoying being one of the most popular sun hats on the market in just about every county in the world. We all know that the sun's rays are not particularly good for us and that wearing a sun hat is probably one of the best ways to protect our skin and eyes from unnecessary damage.

The Design

Bucket hats are generally made from very soft cotton, which is part of the attraction to them as a summer hat. This material is very absorbent, which can come in handy when you are outside sweating in the summer sun. If you get to hot you can always soak you bucket hat in cold water and put it back on your head to help you stay cooler longer.

The crown of the hat is shaped much like a bucket, this is how the hat came by its name, and has a wide floppy brim that can be worn folded up or down depending on the who is wearing it. Either way it will keep the sun out of your eyes or when you have is down will provide plenty of shade to your face and neck. In the crown there are usually two eyelets on each side to help with airflow further keeping your head cool in the summer.

The Perfect Hat

Whether you choose to buy a Kangol bucket hat or one from another company you can wear it practically anywhere when the sun is shining. These timeless hats make the ideal fishing hat, you may have seen Colonel Henry Blake wearing one in the TV series MASH loaded with fishing lures. Today you can see hundreds of fishermen doing the exact same thing and in the US many of them also pin their fishing license to their hat so that the game warden can see it without having to ask for it.

The bucket hat has graced several famous heads both on television and in the movies over the years, so if you choose to wear one you are in good company. Remember Gilligan of Gilligan's Island or how about Jack Lemmon as he costarred with Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men? This is one of the most versatile summer hats on the market.

It has become so popular that many companies are plastering them with their logos and colors and giving them away as a form of free advertising. This super soft cotton sun hat is the perfect thing to keep the sun out of your baby's face and eyes, as an added benefit if he decides to chew on it he cannot get hurt and you can toss it in the washing machine for easy clean up.

The bucket hat offers such excellent protection that the Israeli Army began to issue them to its troops in the field to help protect them from the harmful effect of the desert sun and the US Navy has been using their own version for many years.