{"id":102,"date":"2026-09-14T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/2026\/09\/14\/straw-felt-or-cotton-choosing-a-brim\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:47:00","slug":"straw-felt-or-cotton-choosing-a-brim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/2026\/09\/14\/straw-felt-or-cotton-choosing-a-brim\/","title":{"rendered":"Straw, Felt or Cotton: Choosing a Brim for the Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Straw Is for Dry Heat<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">An open weave moves air across the scalp, which is why a straw fedora feels several degrees cooler than a cotton one of the same shape. It also drinks rain and dries misshapen, so it is a hat for the forecast you have already checked. Tightly woven raffia holds a snapped brim; loose panama-style weaves do not.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Felt Handles Weather and Time<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">Wool felt sheds a light shower, takes a centre dent and keeps it, and looks better in year three than year one. The trade is weight and warmth: a felt brim in August is a decision, not an accident. Brush it in the direction of the nap and it stays presentable for a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 style=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cotton Is the One You Pack<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"\">A washed cotton bucket rolls into a bag, comes out creased, and is fine again within an hour of wearing. It is the only one of the three you can put through a wash, which over a summer of sun cream and salt water matters more than the silhouette does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straw Is for Dry Heat An open weave moves air across the scalp, which is why a straw fedora feels several degrees cooler than a cotton one of the same shape. It also drinks rain and dries misshapen, so it is a hat for the forecast you have already checked. Tightly woven raffia holds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_brandy_post_header_transparent":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_footer_template":"inherit","_brandy_post_header_blur_background":{"type":"inherit","value":3},"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[77,78],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hat-style-guides","tag-materials","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandydemo.com\/hat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}