The straw porkpie quite suits you! Good thinking to get something you could use and needed immediately. I appreciate the contrast you saw between the more expensive hat of noticeably superior quality vs. the cheaper hat of noticeably inferior quality.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
-Benjamin Franklin

Thank you for the cautionary tale of slightly sunburned cheeks versus unscathed head. One of my boyfriends lost his father to melanoma. At the age of 52, his father left a widow and four children under the age of 18.