Men in Hats

Due to the various oddities of Blogger the correspondent is unable to add a photograph of a hat or a man in a hat. So this writer asks the reader to use his or her imagination.
It is the middle of summer and it is time for a man to wear a light colored and light constructed hat. Not a baseball cap worn sideways, backwards, or frontward. Not a skater's "beanie", which is, in reality, a truncated navy watch cap, not a rasta toque whether made of cotton or hemp. It is time for a proper straw hat with a proper brim.
There are two choices: the Panama or the boater. The boater is the lesser choice simply because they are harder to find, and the fact that the modern wearer of a boater may find himself embarrassed by comments by idiots on the street that the wearer is an escapee from a barbershop quartet. But, of course, the modern man cares little for the trend of the times. The modern man wants to present himself as a man and a gentleman in a society of children and barbarians.
Having said that, your faithful correspondent would suggest that the modern gentleman not willing to wear a proper boater or skimmer wear a Panama hat of some sort. The cost of the hats varies greatly - from $300 for a handmade hat from Ecuador to $10 hat made of a paper product from China. The point is to have a cool hat that looks sharp and to have a hat that looks like a man's hat.
Get a freakin' hat for the summer and save yourself from the sun.