My very first job was working on a ranch outside Glenrock, WY the summer I was 14. I wore a full on western hat or "cowboy" hat for years. The wide brim keeps the sun and rain out of your eyes and off your ears and neck and does it quite well. As time passed, I switched to ball caps most of the time. I still wear a ball cap most of the time with my logo on it. When I fish, though, I wear a Tilley styled hat with a wide brim. It does what the old cowboy hat did for me and also keeps errant flies from embedding themselves in my ear. It's not a Tilley, but has that general shape. It's camo and I picked it up at Wally World for $10. I enjoy that hat as much as any I have ever owned.