Wide Brim Hats

A wide-brimmed hat is both beautiful and practical! You immediately will look chic and it is very flattering to wear. So for formal occasions and simply because you like this hat type it is a welcome piece in your wardrobe. A very practical model too, on sunny days you will not be bothered by UV rays or sunlight shining in your eyes...
Bronté offers a wide range of wide-brim hats for women in various fabrics and straws.

Summer hats with wide brims

In the summer you want to optimize the protection against the sun's heat and UV-light damage to your skin and eyes. Hence, the size of the brim should to be more significant. Check the full range of rollable wide-brim hats for women with favourites like Tara, Melina, Anna, Cien and Joanna. If you prefer a hat with a firm shape, we advise Deborah, Grace or Jacqueline and the new style Scarlet. Most Bronté summer wide-brim hats for women come with a size-adjustable system. You will find a lost & found label inside the hat to personalize it with your name and telephone number.

Rollable wide brimmed hats, easy when you travel! Women appreciate wide-brim hats by Bronté for the flexibility of the superfine braided straw. A braided straw makes summer hats less delicate than Panama straw hats. Most braided straw hats are rollable and therefore very suitable as travel hats.

Winter hats with wide brims
You will find wide-brimmed hats in luxurious hair or wool felt in the Bronté winter collection. You can wear the hair felt and wool felt hat on a rainy or snowy day. The fur's velvet touch and glow felt will be a joy for many years. Wool felt is usually more robust and firm in feel. We advise you not to wear any light-coloured hair or wool felt in the rain, as the rain drops could be dirty and cause it impossible to remove stains. You will not have this problem with felt hats in dark colours. Wide-brim winter hats require a coat with a relatively short collar to avoid a collision between the hat and collar.

Hat styles
You will notice that the hat's crown determines the character of the hat style: do you want a masculine fedora crown?
The Frederique and Clara hats are two examples of a wide-brimmed fedora hat in wool felt. Both styles have a shorter brim in the front compared to the back.
Or do you prefer the feminine round hat dome with a floppy look of the seventies?
The Sue hat style is a capeline or round domed hat with a wide brim.
A more dramatic hat style is the Audrey shape: Audrey Hepburn's unforgettable performance in Breakfast at Tiffany inspired this lampshade or bell shape hat: a relatively small rounded dome combined with a broad and rounded brim.