I get artistic with hats, and this time I needed one with a wired brim in order to aim for an Old English form. I just got it and molded it to my exact desire, and it's looking good! It's terribly hard to find a sun hat that can do more than just hang there; true floppy is a tragedy for me. On all the web, this was the only one like it that I could find that wasn't too wide to be acceptable. And though I am loving it, the only down side I can find is that it may be too loose to not have to readjust it each wear. It wouldn't take much of a touch up, but you gotta know that this one is very flexible. I'd imagine that being great for storage and traveling, and it may even help to keep it looking new over the years, but I'm very picky about my fashions, and had this not been so hard to find, I would have called it overpriced. All in all; it's a good hat, but becomes even better when I doll it up with scarves and flowers: a blank canvas was what I was looking for, and that's what I got.