Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I purchased this hat to wear on our family's week-long Orlando theme park extravaganza vacation. I was VERY happy with the hat's performance for this purpose. Here's what I loved about this hat: -Extremely lightweight and comfortable to wear. I could barely tell I had a hat on. It fit comfortably, not too tightly, and when I took it off, I did not have hat hair. -Cool to wear in the Florida heat. The fabric was cool and smooth to the touch and didn't trap heat. The ventilation band helped air flow into the hat. It did not feel wet or sweaty and if I was sweating at all, I didn't notice it. -Did indeed block the sun. I was under no illusions that my sunscreen was going to cut the mustard in all that humidity and heat (though I doggedly applied it anyway). The hat kept the sun off my face and I did not get any color of any kind, no redness, no tan, no freckles, nothing. -Stayed on during every ride due to the chin strap. It was easy to operate the strap and to loosen and tighten it on the fly. -I could abuse this hat and it still looked good. There were times I needed to take it off and I could let it dangle down my back, sit on it, wad it up and shove it in my purse, whatever I wanted to do, and it snapped back every time to its original shape. It packs absolutely flat. -Washable (I did it by hand because I was doing some other stuff by hand at the same time, but I think I could have tossed it into the machine) and dries very quickly. Looks as fresh as it did the day I bought it. -VERY cheap for the number of benefits the hat provides. I want to buy it in a few more colors for next warm season. It would be good for going to a kid's ball game, Renaissance fair, etc. It is not a "pretty" hat, per se. Wearing it; you will probably not feel like Jackie Kennedy sunning herself on the White House lawn. (I didn't.) But it absolutely does the job I bought it for and I would buy it again.