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4.5
Contacted Wallaroo with questions. They replied quickly with info I wanted. I decided to keep the hat. Looks great, love the turquoise beads. Fits my small head great.This is an adorable hat. LOVE IT! However, because of the shortness of the brim there’s little sun protection compared to their other hats. It’s not spf treated, like their others (my fault for not reading more carefully), & it’s a bit big;it doesn’t come in a petite size, like their others. I have the Sedona & I’m in love with it!! Decided to give the Kristy a try for more sun protection. Love Waterloo hats; I will continue to buy more hats from this company.Yes I was pleasantly surprised on the quality it was above my expectations it was nicely packaged and sent and it’s a beautiful hat can’t wait to go on a cruise and wear it!!!Well well well. It's cute. I guess you can decide how you think I look. But I think its a very high quality hat. I absolutely love the red design and beads. Gives such a nice extra detail. It is not really a sun protection hat, anyway. However, it does a great job keeping sun out of my eyes, which is what I wanted. And I wear hats for style and to avoid fussing with my hair on days off. This fits the bill (pun intended) extremely well. Now, this is my first wallaroo with the "adjustable" band inside. I recommend that wallaroo upgrade that feature somehow and make the inside band a soft microfiber to avoid dents on the forehead. This is a problem with many hats, and they may be just the company to make this improvement and do it well. I have a 22 inch circumference and it fits nice without having to tighten under typical circumstances. On a windy day it would blow away,, but so would most hats without a stampede strap......so, with my recent hat buying frenzy, I learned there's such a thing as a stampede strap that I can add in order to not chase my hat into the street if it blows away...Also, the hat IS packable with a taco fold. Haven't done that yet, but I did squish it, and it popped right back into shape. My husband told me that I looked like I was covering the local beat. He then corrected and said " a HAWT woman covering the local beat" lol.This hat will cover your ears very nicely and shade your eyes and then down to about right below your nose. It's great for sun protection in limited situations where you're not in direct sun for long periods. Going shopping, etc. Now, also, bear in mind that everyone should be using SPF 30+ only ZINC and mineral based for the face. So two types of protection are necessary because any hat will still let the rays penetrate from different angles. I moved to Florida last year and my sunburn history is atrocious and my likelihood to develop skin cancer is off the charts. So, I'm on a hat buying kick to provide myself protection from the life giving, life taking, beautiful and vicious orb. Thank you Wallaroo for supporting skin cancer research!! Another reason that paying a bit more made sense to me.It's hard to buy something without trying it on first; will it fit? Will I like it?I'm glad I went ahead and purchased this hat. It fits well and well made and cute. Definitely recommendOne of my favorite hats! Great looking, nice quality, and very comfortable.I don't know why I waited so long to get a new summer hat because this one is perfect. It's light and comfortable and it was so easy to adjust. Five stars!Big big fan of this hat! I have tried dozens upon dozen of hats to fit my itty bitty head as I needed one before going on a cruise. Talking kids size head here..... I searched and searched and searched hi and low with no luck before the cruise but had been eyeballing this one for a couple of years now. I thought “I really want this hat but I know it’s going to be huge on my head like everything else I’ve tried. Well I finally threw in the towel after purchasing a hat in Mexico that was too big and looked silly , thank goodness it was cheap, and broken down and bought this hat along with the kids trilby to see which works better. I love this hat hands down way better than the kids one. The kids one had a more rounded crown while this one has a more narrow crown which makes it look better on my head and not 4 sizes too big. While I will admit I do have to cinch up the drawstring some, it’s not as much as I thought it would be. Only thing I don’t love about this hat is, because I have to cinch up the string and after lengthy use in the heat, I'm left with a line across my forehead when I take it off. At this point, that is so minimal I don’t even care. I’m just glad I finally found a hat that I love and fits me like I want it to.The first thing I had to do was to get a needle and sew in the end of the raffia which was unravelling.Apart from that it's a very nice hat and the adjustable band inside it is great for people like me with small heads!Very happy with product Lovely quality
