The affordable hat

My advice here would be, don’t splurge too much money. Unless you spend a lot of time at Royal Ascot, that price per wear equation is never going to work out to anyone’s satisfaction. Besides, there’s no need. A titfer-loving friend of mine swears by Joanna Violet, whose ravishing retro numbers are a snip

(£38, joannavioletmillinery.co.uk).

I have to take her word for it because you will never, ever see me in a hat. And if that is you, too, then don’t feel you have to be seen in one either.