Purchased this hat to replace my Adventure Hat that finally wore out after many sunny adventures. I loved that hat! But the "new", mfrd in Vietnam version is extremely disappointing. The new brim is so flimsy it's not going to stand up to anything more than a slight breeze. Other reviewers report that the brim creases (and is ruined) just in the course of normal wear. Sunday Afternoons also shrunk the sweat band to only an inch or two in length; other reviewers..
We purchased a size large hat last year and were very happy without purchase. I purchased another size large hat this year, and they sent me a size medium. Not a problem, I gave it to my wife to wear. She notices a difference in quality, and the fact that last year's hat was made here in the USA, while the hat we just purchased was made in Vietnam. If they are going to outsource to save labor cost, why reduce the quality of materials used? The brim on our new ..
I have been buying various style hats from Sunday Afternoons for a number of years now & I have always been extremely pleased with the quality.Recently, I bought 3 more of the Adventure Hats in the Chambray/Charcoal color, at the beginning of June 2013, directly from the Sunday Afternoons website. Within 2 weeks as of today (6/17/2013), all 3 of our new Adventure Hats have a bunch of odd looking creasing on their brims. It looks like they were made of cardboard inside the brims & that the..
