Classic kilt style - as seen at large this summer in Scotland

[PiperPadre]

As long as it has a brim all around. Scottish tweed options would be things along these lines:





(Because your ears are as susceptible to sunburn as your face or the back of your neck.)

Here it's not just the sun, but sometimes the heat. That's why hats were developed with mesh around the brim, which allows air to circulate and even breezes to blow through. Ditto with straw hats if the straw has an open weave that allows air through.

Interesting that a Panama would be considered "a more Scottish and traditional option" with Highland Dress.

At some point practicality has to trump style, given the extremes on this continent. I get overheated thinking about wearing a wool hat under a So California sun. My Marine boot camp days there were accompanied by 2nd degree burns on my ears decades ago.

[Jock Scot]

At some point practicality has to trump style, given the extremes on this continent. I get overheated thinking about wearing a wool hat under a So California sun. My Marine boot camp days there were accompanied by 2nd degree burns on my ears decades ago.

Then a panama is your option.