The boater hat, a charming silhouette inspired by the headwear of Venetian gondoliers, has long been associated with lazy summer days by the water and spirited college rowing races—hence its name.

Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins The boater hat – favoured by barbershop quartets, WC Fields, and local butchers – is back in fashion. It may seem an unlikely, and slightly impractical ...

Melania Trump's hat, specifically, did. Her American-designed boater hat had a brim so large that it even created a barrier for Donald Trump when he went in for a kiss before his presidential ...

It is 100 years since boater hats were first produced in Luton by milliners. Sunday's event had been under threat after an order of 2,000 straw boaters was delayed on a boat from China ...