I am a fair skinned blonde, and at the best of times this makes me a bit twitchy about the sun. But it's so hard to avoid the searing kiss of the radioactive sky ball, and there are so many parts of the body which are easily overlooked. For me, it's my head. I first realised I had a problem with head-burn when I went away to the coast with the foreign man earlier this year. After a walk on the beach he told me my scalp was sunburnt. 'Like, blood red,' he added. 'It's really gross.' Since then I've noticed the skin along the part is consistently a lurid pink, and I fear a dirty great melanoma is soon to emerge. Short of plastering sunscreen onto my scalp, I really must wear a hat.

The problem is hats make you look stupid and, to avoid a truly vicious scalp cancer, I'd have to find a hat I can wear everyday without wanting to kill myself. It's a rare person who can nonchalantly wear a hat and not look like, to use primary school vernacular, a try hard. Furthermore, it's a really rare woman who can pull off a hat. I mean, there are plenty of great male hat wearing role models, such as:

But hat wearing women? Not so much.

And then there are hats that are simply too awesome for me to handle.

So I'm at a loss. I don't want to come down with cancer of the head, but hats leave me cold. Anyone have any hat suggestions?