In Bolivia, at least at altitude, you really need to wear a hat if you don't want your head to get fried, especially if you're going a bit thin on top (like me).
I really liked this hat but it was too small and no amount of stretching would improve the situation, the hard felt as stiff as cardboard.
Of course, even if your hat doesn't fit in the conventional sense, it doesn't mean to say that you can't still wear it with style. Bolivia's indigenous Aymara and Quechua woman, known as 'cholitas' wear their bowler hats perched high up on top of their heads.
The Bowler hat, known as 'bombín' in Spanish, was first introduced to Bolivia by British railway workers in the 1920s. For many years they were made in a factory in Italy, but now they are made locally, and come in a range of colours and trims than you would have never found in London...
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