Wide Brimmed Hats is Melissa Odabash's maximum-coverage hat collection: two paper straw styles, one soft, one structured, built for shading the face and shoulders through the strongest hours of the day. Suited to a customer traveling somewhere with strong, direct sun rather than dappled or indirect light. Sun coverage is the entire brief for this shape - a brim wide enough to shade the face and shoulders through the strongest hours of the day, more than any other hat style in the range can manage. It's the practical counterpart to the more directional Cowboy Hats, built for the customer prioritizing coverage over a statement silhouette. Jemima Beige Hat, a soft paper straw hat with a relaxed, slightly floppy fall, anchors the edit across five tonal colorways, from a soft beige-and-tan through to a woven white-and-tan finish. Kate Tan Stud Belt Hat, a firmer, more structured paper straw hat that holds its line rather than softening at the edges, brings a different construction into the same wide-brim category, finished with a geometric or stud-belt trim for a more directional finish. Wear Jemima for an easy, undone shape or Kate for something that holds its structure through a windier day by the water. Sun protection rarely gets this much brim to work with elsewhere in a considered accessories range, and this range gives a genuine choice in how that brim behaves.
