How To Size A Boonie Hat

Those not used to a boonie hat and the wide brim sometimes find it annoying.

How to size a boonie hat. A high-quality Boonie hat should fit comfortably snug. This Rothco hat is a cotton synthetic blend. Using just a little bit if steel wire.

Go up by an eighth to a quarter of an inch or slightly more if you wear a larger size. Boonie hats are one of the most useful hats you can wear outdoors especially when hiking hunting and fishing. Some people prefer this method because of how it pulls the brim aside.

This Instructable shows how to modify a boonie hat to have a zippered secret compartment on the inside. However some people find Boonie hats challenging to wear in style. Often a fabric tape band of branch loops is sewn around the crown of the hat.

The tied strap is going to pull up the brim at the sides. A boonie hat or booney hat is a form of wide-brim hat commonly used by military forces in hot tropical climates. I made some starch spray and tested it on an old shirt it left residue all over the cloth.

Place the string or tape around your head about 18 above your ear across the mid-forehead completely circling your head. The Australian giggle hat has a thinner brim. You can even roll up the side edges and hold them in place with the chin strap over the top Aussie.

Then I saw in a youtube vid that that synthetic clothes need hat sizing starch wont work on them. If your measurement falls between sizes choose the next largest size. How Boonie Hats Should Fit.