This hat does provide wide-brimmed protection against the sun.  It has some kind of wire along the edge of  the flexible brim to help control floppiness, but the brim still hangs low because of its extra breadth.  The shape of the crown is less than elegant to my taste, but adding a ribbon or scarf may help that.  It is a bit too big for my head, but sticking a velcro strip around the headband has fixed that -- now it's snug.  One could pull the hat down so that the head fills the crown, and it would be snug without the velcro.  I can't do that now because the velcro keeps it high on my head, which I wanted. Minus one star because of the elegance factor.