What brands do you like? I’m just looking to keep the sun off me when I’m working in the yard. I sweat a ton so cotton might be good. Any suggestions?

IDGAF what I look like doing yard work so I wear those ridiculous boonie hats with the built-in neck flap/mullet. I wore out the name brand one running it through the washing machine so now it's a no name one from Amazon. It's so ugly that:

Hand on the Bible - the neighbor kid was about 15 months old and cried the first time he saw me in the hat. It scared him.

I'm waiting for Al Czervik to say, "You buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup.”

Tilley

Tilley is great for hiking.

Yard work and short hikes, I've been satisfied with cheap Propper or Tru-Spec boonies. $10-20 each.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Yard work and short hikes, I've been satisfied with cheap Propper or Tru-Spec boonies. $10-20 each.

Same. I'm not going to spend $100 on a Tilley boonie for outside labor that's going to get torn up, soaked with sweat on every week, coated in grass/paint/mud/tar, etc.

Instead I'll buy a cheap Rothco/Teesar/Propper/Tru-Spec boonie and just wear it until it gets too gross or falling apart, then replace it.

Dorfman Pacific. I keep one spare in my truck. People do go out of their way to avoid you when wearing one. Good reason I wear them.

USGI - still have/wear my three color and six color desert camp boonie hats that were issued to me. I lost my woodland camo boonie.

I have my USMC woodland camo which is a little warm this time of year for me, so I also have a Carhertt Force in khaki which does a good job.

Check out Shelta hats. I like them because they have a hard insert in the front to keep the brim right where I like it.

www.sheltahats.com

I ordered this one by Propper in 2017 and it's held up well for me -

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Originally posted by Ox190:
Check out Shelta hats. I like them because they have a hard insert in the front to keep the brim right where I like it.

www.sheltahats.com

Just ordered one of them (Landhawk). I like the formed bill. A little on the spendy side (though not as much as Tilleys), but I need something good. I wear a ballcap 99% of the time I'm outside, but my ears have taken a beating over the years. This looks like a good hybrid between a ballcap and traditional brimmed hat.

Tilley. Buy once cry once.

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Tilley

Yep.

I thought Tilley was too expensive, so I looked at Columbia and a couple of no name brands. Then, I went back and bought the Tilley I'd been looking at.

The Tilley I have is nylon or some other than cotton, but it’s a great hat for the sun. Recently I’ve been using a straw hat I got at the beach last summer. Has a cool kraken design on the inside .

Similar to this, but I only paid $25 for it https://www.amazon.com/HUK-Sta...83795282038523&psc=1

I’ve been wearing the ones Propper makes for years. I work outside and I sweats freely, so the ability to throw them in the washing machine when they start to stink is a huge advantage.

Tilly makes some very nice hats.

Sunday Afternoons make a good variety at more approachable prices.

Crye Precision makes a very classic looking boonie with their Bush Hat.

I had a MultiCam boonie with a mesh top-crown back when Crye had just gotten going, someone stole it, would sure like to find another one as they don't make them anymore.

Dorfman Pacific

Tilly LTM2

It's a friggin hat so don't sweat that it's expensive relative to others. It's a great hat. If you don't like the extra wide hat, the LTM6 is their most popular, and with good reason.

I wear mine all the time and I have another identical one for hiking, boating and trips to the desert.

Someone should do a summertime Karma for a Tilly hat.

I just looked up Tilley. Freakin' a hundred dollars for a boonie hat?

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I just looked up Tilley. Freakin' a hundred dollars for a boonie hat?

You can usually do a little better on price on Amazon.

It's a buy once kind of thing. Built well and not just pieces of material sewn together.

You'll never hear a Tilly owner say the hat was a ripoff or a piece of useless crap.

We think nothing of a $150+ custom holster and more for matching belt, mag holder and no one questions the value or level of workmanship. Same with Tilly AirFlow hats.