I like hats. Always have. I’ve worn a cowboy number every summer for years – protects your face from UVA/UVB related nasties and covers a sweaty barnet perfectly. More recently during the warmer months I’ve moved on to a straw trilby from The Kooples, that little bit smarter and I feel it is more of an ‘accessory” rather than something I throw on as part of my sun protection armour.

I have never worn a hat in winter. Unless you count the cosy bobble type I used to don for snowboarding holidays. Anything remotely knitted in style leaves me with the most unattractive static yet-at-the-same-time flat hair once I take it off, call me vain but it’s not a look I particularly favour.

In the world of fashion there seems to be all sorts of immense headwear action going on right now, my favourites are the felt/wool wide brimmed floppy style as seen on the model above taken from our recent Rock My Wedding shoot and the fedora. I’m just stuck with when you can in fact wear a rather statement hat without looking a bit of a wally aside from ladies day at Ascot, and when is the correct and sociably acceptable time for said hat to be taken off?

Say I wore the wide brimmed style to the shops, if I then went for coffee should I remove it?! Sitting down to eat a sandwich whilst wearing a rather large item on my bonce at the same time just seems a little…odd. What is the best thing to do with my locks so they look ok with a hat and not extraordinarily tragic without?

Do you like hats? Have you invested in one this season?

I was thinking that as per my consuming a sandwich statement, such a wide brim design might be quite useful for hiding the evidence of scoffing a rather large slice of Victoria sponge.

Happy Friday you lush lot you.