One man had a rucksack, another a white cotton hat, a third an unbuttoned shirt, a fourth, sandshoes.

Once there was a summer when every other young woman in Manhattan wore a droopy white cotton hat.

She had sighted a nondescript cotton hat shrouded in olive mosquito netting that sparked even palmier fantasies.

A bucket hat, fishing hat or beanie hat, is a soft cotton hat with a wide and downwards sloping brim which is worn by both men and women.

Mr. Lanin was famous for giving away multicolored cotton hats, 50,000 a year, with "Lester Lanin" emblazoned in script behind the brim.

Mr. Shapiro showed 12 women in the same white cotton hat, two-button peak-lapel jacket, five-button trousers and white Converse sneakers.

They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun, and gloves to protect their hands from the corn.

She chose instead a soft white pull-on cotton hat by Jan Hutchinson ($100), a Mississippi designer who hires retired people to sew hats out of vintage fabrics.

She raised herself on one elbow, looked at the man, then turned her head to look at his friend, who sat idly with a leg doubled under him, a crumpled cotton hat in his hand.

His hair was hidden by an olive cotton hat.