Stylish Sunhats

Good for a fashionable breakfast and madcap nightcap!

The Fashionista has an Unlimited Wardrobe, and headwear is no different. Brides have veils and gentlemen have derbies, but her? She has the sunhat.

Sunhats are often used as fashion statements and are often accompanied by other accessories — belts, ribbons, earrings, or even a colour-coded outfit. In many cases, she'll often adjust her hat, being concerned about how it makes her look as a Proper Lady. Many an Ojou dons this sort of hat. It's also common amongst similarly rich and bored housewives.

This trope can also overlap with Rich Bitch, Upper-Class Twit, and the tropes of Fashion and Modeling Tropes.

Essentially Always Female, though there are rare male examples. It could be thrown in Wholesome Crossdresser.

The other term for this is a "picture hat".

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Akage no Anne: When Anne is at Sunday school, we see the girls wearing fancy sunhats each with their own unique decorations, such as flowers, frills and beads.
• Akiba's Trip: The Woman in Black is dressed head to toe in black clothing, alongside a black sunhat with a black ribbon. Not only is she the head of Metroica that want to Take Over the World, she's Matome and Urame's grandmother.
• Bakemonogatari: Shinobu occasionally wears a wide-brimmed sunhat with a white ribbon.
• Black Bullet: Seitenshi is the governer of the Tokyo Area. To emphasize her status, she wears an elegant white dress with a feathery hem, and a white sunhat that has white flowers on the hilt. It has roses-like object attached to the side.
• Bungo Stray Dogs: Margaret Mitchell is a high-ranking member of The Guild and wears a sunhat embroidered with a blue lace and a flower.
• Candy♡Candy:
  • Eliza Leagan is the firstborn daughter of the prestigous Leagan family, and has been spoiled her entire life by her wealthy parents. Bored with her current life, she finds joy in tormenting others, particularly the vulnerable. In some episodes, she dons a bright orange wide-brimmed sunhat with a red ribbon, that is accompanied with a feathery fan.
  • To show her status as an upper-class lady, Mrs. Leagen wears a white sunhat with a purple ribbon and multiple fur rags at the back, and a Classy Cravat to match.
  • In the opening, Candy wears a violet sunhat with a giant red-and-white striped bow, four large red flowers, many other smaller pink, blue and white flowers and a blue ribbon.
  • Patty, Candy's roommate, is an Ojou, albeit a humble one. She doesn't dress up often, but when Candy is out having a picnic she wears a broad white sunhat.
• Captain Tsubasa: Kaori Matsumoto is an Ojou who works for Toho Academy as a Scout Personnel. She later becomes Hyuuga's personal manager, assisting him in his personal affairs. She wears a large, white sunhat with a large purple ribbon and a small pink rose.
• Cardcaptor Sakura: Nadeshiko's job as a model allowed Fujitaka to keep many pictures of her, with at least one featuring her wearing a sunhat. Flashbacks also show her wearing a sunhat when she visited her grandfather's estate.
• Daimos: In one episode, the Daimovic crew are visited by a student from Kyoshiro's past, the pretty Ojou Reiko. She dresses lavishly, complete with a blue sunhat with an even darker blue ribbon. Unfortunately, she's also very ditzy and doesn't realize that she's an Abhorrent Admirer to Kyoshiro, who does not want to marry her. She's also a Rich Bitch who looks down on Kyoshiro's friends.
  Reiko: Spending time with people of the lower classes can make for some quality entertainment!
• Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure: Black Pepper wears a large white sunhat, that has a flower pattern on the inside and has a fluffy black plush tail on the brim held with a black ribbon. Like Rosemary, he descends from Heroic Lineage as his father was also a warrior from the Coo Kingdom.
• Digimon Adventure: Mimi Tachikawa is a prissy, uptight Spoiled Brat who doesn't take most situations seriously, at least until the Character Development kicks in. Her sunhat is pink and tilts upwards, and is larger than her head.
• Duel Masters Win: Karen's appearance is updated to have a large white sunhat with a light blue ribbon alongside her signature Girlish Pigtails.
• Emma: A Victorian Romance: Eleanor is the youngest daughter of Viscount Campbell. Her father intends for her to marry William to salvage the Campbell's detoriating wealth. She wears dark pink sunhat is so wide it covers her shoulders, and has a plumage of feathers sticking from the left crease.
• Fairy Ranmaru: Sirius is a fiary who fell in love with a human woman. In his flashback, her face is never seen because it's covered by a wide sunhat with a daffodil perched on the ribbon.
• Fairy Tail: Rufus Lore is a flamboyant mage that wears a bright red sunhat connected to a Domino Mask, with golden edges. The hat has a feather so long and pouffy it reaches to his waist.
• Grenadier: Rushuna Tendo wears a bright pink-and-white sunhat post-Time Skip and is a Chick Magnet as well as a Dude Magnet - the hookers at the brothel were absolutely enamoured by her beauty.
• Great Mazinger: Minor character Karen has a hot-pink sunhat decorated with a blue wire cord at the hilt, and daisies on the upper-right.
• Hana no Ko Lunlun: One of Lunlun's outfits includes a purple Pimped-Out Dress accompanied by a large white sunhat and a blue ribbon.
• Heidi, Girl of the Alps: Clara Sesseman is the daughter of a wealthy wine merchant, but he's usually away from home so she's looked after by her caretaker, Miss Rottenmeiner. When she's outside, Clara often wears a white sunhat with a pink ribbon.
• Hello! Sandybell:
  • Kitty Shearer is an Alpha Bitch whose father is the owner of the conglomerate company Shearer & Co., making him one of the wealthiest men in Scotland. She's always dressed head to toe in the most exquisite of outfits and favours blue gowns. Throughout the show, her most recurring outfit is a blue dress with a blue sunhat that has a rose.
  • During the London arc, Sandybell goes through an outfit change where she dons a beautiful, wide-brimmed white sunhat, with yellow flowers on the top.
• Hello! Spank: Aiko's mother is a fashion designer who departs to Paris for work, leaking Aiko in the care of her uncle. When she eturns, she's wearing a large mint-green sunhat that has a green ribbon.
• Howl's Moving Castle: Honey Hatter wears a large-brimmed hat studded with flowers, metal and a replica of a big blue bird.
• Hunterx Hunter: Kikyo Zoldyck is the Evil Matriarch of the Zoldyck family, and wears a large pink sunhat (yellow in the 1997 version) that is embroidered with pink roses, has a large puff of cotton on the top and feathers.
• Isabelle of Paris: When Isabelle is leaving for Versailles, she dons a sunhat that's twice the size of her head and has a fluffy tail on the ribbon.
• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, after Yukako neglects to apply her special makeup given by Aya, the after-effects cause her eyes to turn completely black and in desperation to hide this from Koichi, wears a sunhat to conceal it while evading him.
• Kaze no Shōjo Emily: In the Grand Finale, Ilse wears a bright blue sunhat as she links arms with Perry, signifying that they're now dating.
• Kinnikuman: Both Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana wear sunhats, to signify they're royalty. Queen Elizabeth's is plain white and large, while Diana's is striped black-and-white.
• K-On!: Tsumugi Kotobuki wears a white sunhat with a pink belt while she's at the beach. Out of the main girls, she's the Token Rich Student and finds the middle-class lifestyle "entertaining".
• Lady!!:
  • Sarah is the oldest of Viscount Marble's daughters, and during her picnic with Lynn, she wears a plain white sunhat with a giant red ribbon.
  • Mary Waverly is the spoiled, hypercompetetive, perfectionist daughter of Baron Madeleine. As she's about to leave for Switzerland, she wears a cherry-red sunhat with a golden ribbon and has a red gemstone to hold it in place.
• La Seine No Hoshi: Black Tulip, the mysterious man who aids La Seine No Hoshi in her exploits, wears a black sunhat with a white feather that curves upwards and a Domino Mask.
• The heroine of Millennium Actress wears a plain brown wide-brimmed sunhat in one of her shoots.
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Sealand: Princess Camille is a lonely girl who's father is always away on business trips. One of the reasons Nemo is brought to Slumberland is to alleviate her loneliness. She wears a bright yellow sunhat with a green bow on the crease, with another green bow around her neck.
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: The titular character wears a slightly large brimmed sunhat that has ribbons hanging off the back while she's in Paris.
• One Piece: In the sixth movie, Nico Robin wears a gorgeous white gown accompanied with a sunhat so wide-brimmed it covers her eyes.
• Paradise Kiss: Isabella Yamamoto was born in a wealthy family and is Spoiled Sweet, being the Team Mom to everyone else. She often dons a variety of black sunhats, most prominently one with yellow roses on the crease.
• The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love:
  • Sadie Dean is a stuck-up, snobby little girl who lives next door to the Cariou family. She accuses Pollyanna of being a thief because of how scruffy she looks. Sadie also wears a straw hat with a ribbon on the top, and another pair of ribbons that are used to secure it against her head.
  • Ms. Cariou is from a wealthy family and of Blue Blood; she wears a white sunhat with a pink rose on top when she's outside.
• Pokémon: The Original Series: In the episode "The Stun Spore Detour", James disguises himself as a woman pushing a carriage with her infant, who is actually Meowth, He dons a wide, violet, wide-brimmed sunhat and Pimped-Out Dress. However, it doesn't fool Misty.
• Porco Rosso: Gina is a rich and stylish woman who owns a hotel. Though her appearance changes with every scene, she retains a wide-brimmed plain white sunhat.
• Princess Sarah: The students of Miss Minchin's Academy are from wealthy families and all wear these kinds of sunhats. Before Sarah became a Fallen Princess, she wore a bright pink one, and was rich enough to fashion one for her doll◊.
• Remy - Nobody's Girl: Mrs. Milligan is the widow of an aristocratic British family. She has short blonde hair and wears a purple sunhat with a pink ribbon.
• Rental Magica: Diana, President of Trismegistus, wears a black sunhat embroidered with roses on the front hilt, and has a veil that covers her eyes.
• Sailor Moon: Koan is a conceited Nemesis Humanoid obsessed with cosmetics and looking the best. As a human, she wears a bright yellow wide-brimmed sunhat wth a black rose on the top.
• The Secret Garden: The wealthy socialite Mrs. Lennox wears a wide-brimmed hat with a rose and a feather on the crease.
• Spy X Family:
  • Yor wears a sunhat while on the cruise ship. It appears to be made of straw and has a blue ribbon.
  • Sylvia Sherwood is a high ranking agent of The Garden and wears a black sunhat with a pink ribbon. She's rather aloof to everyone around her and is only interested in maintaining that the mission is completed.
• Mayuri of Steins;Gate is a pretty, buxom woman who wears a blue sunhat with a white ribbon. In Zero, this is traded in for a more dull-looking hat.
• takt op. Destiny: Heaven wears a white sunhat that has a blue ribbon that extends past her spine, and a Parasol of Prettiness to go with it.
• The Story of Cinderella: Isabelle is from a wealthy family and grew up in a castle. She wears a large white sunhat with feathers.
• Twin Star Exorcists: Subaru Mitejima. She wears a white sunhat decorated with a large pink bow, giving her the image of a high-class lady.
• ∀ Gundam:
  • Lily Borjanno is the daughter of the Duke of Luzianne. Despite her petty nature, she cares about politics and travels to the moon to negotiate with her fellow leaders about peace. She wears a large, white-and-red-striped, wide-brimmed hat with a giant feather sticking out from the left.
  • Kihel Heim is the oldest daughter of the Heim family. She has volominous Ojou Ringlets that reach her waist and a sunhat so large it obscures her eyes.
• Violinist of Hameln: Princess Flute is a Plucky Girl who insist on following Sociopathic Hero Hamel as payment for saving her life. As a Princess, she's not used to the life of war and violence he leads, but tries to follow through anyway. In both the manga and anime, she wears a crimson-pink sunhat with a white bow.
• XX Xholic: Yuuko is an immortal witch, and wears a large, plate-like sunhat that has yellow roses and a large amount of purple ruffles on the side.

Art

• The "Gainsborough hat" is named after the late 18th century British painter Thomas Gainsborough, when he painted high society women in pastoral scenes, wearing wide-brimmed sunhats atop their large powdered hair.

Comic Books

• Runaways: In Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), Klara's first on-panel appearance in years shows her in a nice sunhat, a Significant Wardrobe Shift demonstrating that she's now richer than most of her friends (which is ironic, because she used to be the poorest member of the team).

Fan Works

• The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: Anastasia Burns, daughter and heiress of C. Montgomery Burns, often wears sun hats with her outfits, befitting her wealth and Edwardian-inspired fashion sense. For instance, her "tea dress" is worn with a picture hat adorned with Fluffy Fashion Feathers.

Films — Live-Action

• Barbie (2023): Barbie loves wearing pink, and while driving her car out of Barbieland, wears a bright pink sunhat. In-universe, she's a famed model and a party girl (and Ken has a god-like view of her).
• Breakfast at Tiffany's: The page image is of the Spoiled Sweet Holly Golightly, who is from a high class background and wears a lot of fancy outfits, including fancy sunhats.
• Evil Under the Sun: The mystery takes place on a luxurious resort island, and several of the women wear sun hats.
• Pretty Woman: Call girl Vivian needs to buy better clothes for herself, but a boutique denies her service. After her escort Edward's intervention, she enters a Shopping Montage and ends up buying lots of fancy, classy clothes. The next day, she is wearing a fancy white dress with a line of black buttons and a black sunhat, then goes to the boutique that rejected her the day before. The saleswoman doesn't recognize Vivian with her upgraded attire. Later in the movie, now that she has improved her fashion sense, she accompanies Edward to the polo race course wearing a simple, yet elegant sunhat.
• Singin' in the Rain: One of Lina's outfits is a pink dress and a matching huge sunhat, befitting her characterisation as a Rich Bitch and a famous actress.
• Titanic (1997): Famously, Rose is introduced wearing a big purple sunhat with a pink ribbon, which fits her wealthy status and is accurate to the era (as wide-brimmed hats were very trendy in 1912).

Literature

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Lisette Jean is a child actress in the David Garrick troupe, and regarded as the most beautiful girl in the entire village. She wears a bright pink sunhat with a white ribbon and big red bow.

Live-Action TV

• The Good Place: Tahani Al-Jamil (an extremely wealthy philanthropist) has a sunhat she wears out on occasions with some of her fashionable outfits.
• Schitt's Creek: Alexis Rose wears a few of these over the series, including when the Roses go searching for David when he is hiding with the Amish.

Theatre

• The Merry Widow is a story about a young widow who marries a Ruritanian nobleman, the citizens' insistence on her marrying another rich Ruritanian, and a conflict with her Old Flame. The 1907 production has the lead actress Lily Elsie donning a giant brimmed hat topped with ostrich feathers. The "Merry Widow hat" caught on with the Edwardian audience so much that it became an accessory for the rest of The Edwardian Era until the dawn of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand's wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was wearing one when the pair were assassinated.

Video Games

• ANNO: Mutationem: At Ann's room, she has a photograph of Nakamura featuring her with a sunhat when she previously worked as a model.
• Flower Knight Girl: Poached Egg Plant has waist-length blonde hair complemented by a large white sunhat that is covered with flowers at the top, three tiny easter egg ornamant and a pink ribbon.
• Genshin Impact: Navia wears a lavishly decorated one, as befitting the popular fashion in the Court of Fontaine.
• Palworld: Sibelyx is a moth Pal that resembles a fancy lady with a sunhat (though they are equally likely to be male). It's heavily implied they use their "hat" as sun protection, as their Paldeck entry mentions that they like the rain.
• Persona 5: Haru Okumura's bathing suit includes a fancy sunhat, fitting for the Ojou daughter of Okumura industries.
• Pokémon:
  • The Trainer class of Lady are all rich well-to-do women often obsessed with fashion, and always wear a fancy sunhat in all their incarnations.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon: Lillie is a Mysterious Waif and Shrinking Violet in an elegant Minidress of Power whose Signature Headgear is initially a large, white sun hat. She keeps the outfit to begin with in the alternate-universe sequels but later Takes A Level In Badass, undergoing a Significant Wardrobe Shift (including the hat) for a more practical one and getting an Expository Hairstyle Change to a Tomboyish Ponytail as she begins her trainer career.
    • In-universe, Lillie's outfit, including the hat, is based on Nihilego, an extraterrestrial Pokémon that Lillie's mother Lusamine has an unhealthy obsession with. Nihilego could also be considered an example of this trope, as it looks and acts like a cute and elegantly-dressed young girl, with its head resembling a wide-brimmed hat and its tentacles resembling long hair. Combined with its parasitic nature, this evokes the Creepy Child trope.
• Resident Evil Village: The Vampire Monarch Lady Dimitrescu is elegantly done up in a white gown, sunhat, pearls, gloves, and makeup, whether she's lounging in her castle or hunting you through it with her claws out.
• Touhou Project: Sumireko Usami trades out her usual Fedora of Asskicking for a black sunhat in Hifuu Nightmare Diary ~ Violet Detector. Since the game takes place during the warm summer months, she’s given a new outfit that’s more appropriate for hot weather (shorter sleeves, no tie, no gloves), but which still looks as classy as her original outfit in Touhou Shinpiroku ~ Urban Legend in Limbo.

Web Comics

• Boyfriends.: Features a rare male example, when Prep wears a sunhat as part of a fashionable dress outfit he is showing Nerd. It is white with a pink ribbon.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: Marceline dons a wide sunhat as part of her Unlimited Wardrobe in "What Was Missing", it doubles in functionality to keep the sun off her vampire body.
• Hailey's On It!: Kristine is always seen wearing a hat, most commonly one of these.
• Miraculous Ladybug: Audrey Bourgeois, Chloé's mother, wears a gold and black sunhat with a large gold rose adorning it. She's a harsh high-profile fashion critic.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rarity owns and wears several sunhats throughout the show, all of which — being a highly-skilled fashion designer and artist — she personally designed and made.

Real Life

• On the occasion of Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage in 2011, one of the guests, Princess Beatrice, wore a fascinator on her head that became, at the time, something of a meme for the strangeness of the fashion accessory, which many likened to an octopus.
• These were a very popular type of accessory in The Edwardian Era, with many women wearing large picture hats, adorned with feathers and flowers, to show off how posh and stylish they were.
• At many Christian churches in the United States, Church Ladies will often wear fancy wide-brimmed hats. African-American women are especially fond of wearing elaborate sunhats to church.
  • This is especially evident on Easter Sunday, where women and girls often wear "Easter bonnets" — sunhats decorated with flowers, eggs, rabbit figurines, and other symbols of Easter.

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