Years ago when rowing his canoe on the Rother river Ben lost his treasured bucket hat, a sudden gust of wind blew it from his head and it hit the water, sinking agonisingly slowly while Wilf (also in the canoe) desperately tried to save it with an oar, only to fill it with water and condemn it to the deep, a quest to find a replacement proved futile so we decided to make our own, its completely unisex, looks great and is made from a hard wearing, British cotton canvas. lined in a soft cotton.