I wear a hat daily to go out of the house.
Sunglasses don't suit my long face, but hats with a brim do.
They keep the sun out of my light-sensitive eyes.
I recently went to our local serious hat shop (Salamagundi's in Boston)
and got to talk millenary with the co-owner and hat maker there, Jessen Fitzpatrick.
It's one of the few fashion items where you do need it to fit well, and he concurred.
Too tight and you get a headache and too loose and it flies off in a breeze.
As a combined Christmas-and-birthday present I got the Paperdoll hat,
and Jessen fit it for me there in the shop with his steam machines.
I'm going to show off my new hat now ...

It's a bi-colour Panama hat (handwoven in Ecuador)
with an extra wide navy grosgrain ribbon
and a vertical vintage horn buckle (from the UK),
blocked and shaped by Jessen himself.
It's has just the right amount of restrained sass
for a Boston Brahmin gone threadbare and artistic.