SunBody Hats

SunBody Goes For The Gold!

This is how I sun body!

 

First of all, the car you see me standing next to is my 1999 (the last year made) Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4. This car was in the first movie, The Fast and the Furious. It was supposed to be the staring 10-second car that Paul Walker was to drive, but in a major scene, he could not fit through the moon roof to jump out as the car was traveling fast next to a large truck being hijacked by a bad character, Vinnie. They replaced the VR-4 with a '95 red Toyota Supra but kept my black car for a few other scenes in the drag racing sequence.

 

Anyway, I was preparing to drive to the pool where I coach swimming. I have had 4 Olympians in the past and have a young man now who stands a great chance of making The Olympic Team. In the next few days, t Olympic Trials, we will know.

 

I have had several skin cancers over the years resulting from my being on deck in the blistering sun. The high-quality and large size of the Sun Body hats that I wear help to keep me protected, along with sun screen, of course.

 

You can see two different models of a similar style, both of which have a 5" brim to protect my face, ears and neck. You can also see, if you look closely, the USA Olympic medallions that are available at the Olympic Training Center where I have also coached. I am proud to display this medallion and all it represents.

 

Thank you, Sun Body, for having such functional apparel for someone in my profession.

 

Coach Ed Nessel, R.Ph, MS, MPH, PharmD.

Viera, Florida

What gives you "Hattitude?"

Yes, this is a blog about hats, but I want to start with a different kind of clothing to make a point, denim blue jeans. Lets take a simple pair of blue jeans, brand new, just off the shelf.  Now how many ways can those blue jeans be interpreted?  You can shred em, wear them tight, wear them loose, roll up the cuffs, roll the cuffs inward...  You can cut holes in the knees, you can cut them off at the knees completely, and now you have cut offs.  You can acid wash 'em, stone wash 'em, NOT wash em, etc.  You get the point.  

I recently had a customer email me, and in this email he said our hats have "hattitude" or hats with attitude.  I really liked that.  I've been thinking about that email for a while and I want to know what do YOU do that give YOUR SunBody "Hattitude"? 

A lot of our customers out there do their own "thing" to their SunBody Hat.  Maybe they wear it a certain way, or modify the crease, dip the front down low, or even shape it like a safari hat, the possibilities are limitless.  How do you wear it? Are there certain modifications you make to the hat once you receive it?  It's no secret that a little water goes a long way in regards to shaping our hats.

As always, we encourage you to send us pictures of your custom hats.  Don't forget to enter our "2008 How Do You SunBody Contest?" for your chance to win a free hat!

Kindest regards,
-The SunBody Crew

The Wild West Herbalist

By Jesse Wolf Hardin

The Wild West is thought to have been a dangerous place, and certainly would have been a lot more so without the help of local healers.  In a region where university trained doctors were far and few between, it was mostly informally trained women who were the repositories of practical medical wisdom.  They assisted with births and brought grace to the moment of dying, were called to administer elderflower and yarrow to feverish children, and tend plow cuts and bullet wounds, packing them with poultices made from plantain or usnea.  Those with Native American blood or education were known as Medicine Women, while to the Hispanics of the Southwest they were called Curanderas. Their methods and cures were a reflection of local culture as well as local biota and an inspirited landscape, and every region featured its own pharmacopeia of indigenous plant species.  From secret Basque cures to Apache remedies, local homemade medicines were usually more available and often more effective than expensive imported pharmaceuticals.  In point of fact, the proliferation of so-called “Patent” medicines, often with harmful additives as well as wood alcohol, was one factor explaining why the overall health of men and women on the American frontier was actually better than that of folks living then in the large Eastern cities.

Kiva Rose embodies the Medicine Woman Tradition, drawing from the traditions of the past even as she finds ways to bring natural healing and herbal wildcrafting to the modern world.  Living seven river crossings from the nearest road, her home serves as a wilderness teaching center for herbal students from all over the country, gals who join in plant-identification walks where they’re shown how to select, harvest and utilize powerful wild herbs like estafiate and oregano de la sierras.

Known for dressing very nattily and with a taste of the Old West, there is no part of her wardrobe more treasured – or put to more uses – than her open crowned SunBody hat.  She has used it to transport minnows to the river, saving them from the sad fate of an evaporating tributary, and filled it with seeds to tempt chipmunks into her lap.  But more often, it protects Kiva’s fair complexion from a blazing New Mexico sun until she gets deep into her favorite patches of plants.  She then flips it over as her students smile and watch, her SunBody magically becoming a finely woven plant basket, soon overflowing with her canyon home’s herbal bounty.

Welcome!

Welcome to the SunBody Hats official blog site.  We hope to use this site as a way to further reach out and make contact with our hat wearing community.  We receive so many wonderful pictures and testimonials we thought it would be great to share some of those pics with the world, here on our new blog-site. 

Your input is always welcome, in fact we encourage it.  If you see something you like, let us know, feel free to comment on pictures, and share your stories with our readers. 

We look forward to building the SunBody community one post at a time!

See you in the shade,
SunBody Hats