I usually don,t wear a hat of any kind any more but used to wear one all of the time when i was a peon working in the fields or working on a ranch, it just makes good sense, keeps the rain or sun off., makes a good container for water, wild berries, feed bag, etc.
Some one once told me that wide brimmed hats has has been around for thousands of years but i don,t know.
I hate those plastic wrappers people put on hats. Hats are supposed to protect you from the elements, if your hat needs protection from the elements you’ve lost the narrative.
A couple of things I don’t understand:
Wearing a ball cap that only shades part of the front of your face from only one angle of the sun.
Pickup trucks with extended cabs with such a reduced size bed that they cannot “pick up” much of anything.