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About Kelly Cap

We supply over 40 golf courses and well-known shops with his golfer's headwear collection. Allan Kelly also takes his time for clients' individual wishes such as choosing the right colour hat to match their racing green cabriolet or the golf professional discussing the right brim width while practising their stroke. Or companies looking for a hat style for all their golfing executives worldwide.

The Allan Kelly summer collection consists of 14 hat models for sports and leisure activities for men and women. Allan Kelly Accessories has proved to be one of the best and smartest sources for great quality and exciting headwear in Panama-straw.

Hats for cool heads

'Hats for cool heads' was the title of an article about Allan Kelly in the Swiss broadsheet: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. While studying design in England, a small advertisement caught his eye. It was for a straw hat designed to fold up. That is how Allan Kelly became a hatmaker; or to be precise: a specialist for woven headwear.

The choice of weave - the finer the weave, the more durable and luxurious it is - plays a role in the creation of a new style as does the choice of trimming or the width and shape of the brim. Every year Allan Kelly expands his collection with new ideas such as incorporating golf tees in the hatband or the Kelly's roll up hat which once folded up can be fastened with its own leather hatband. One unique feature of the Allan Kelly Headwear range is the washable towelling band which can be removed from the inside of the hat. The towelling band keeps the wearer's forehead dry. In addition, the breathability of the hat itself allows a cooling breeze to flow, keeping the wearer's head both cool and dry.

Sun protection and health

If you are someone who might spend 5 hours on the golf course in 30 degrees in the shade, preparation and protection are vital to your health. Until recently a tan was not only fashionable, it also represented a sporty, healthy lifestyle. Now, however, there has been a dramatic change in our attitude towards sunbathing due to a rapid increase in allergies and of course skin cancer. It is not just the ozone layer that is responsible.

In particular, there has been a change in what we do in our leisure time. We spend more and more time in the sun, sometimes even risking sunburn. The more often we get sunburnt, especially during our childhood, the greater the danger of our getting skin cancer. Suncream offers one form of protection. Factor 16 to 20 protects us from UV rays, which cause skin-aging, and UVB rays, which cause sunburn and skin cancer.

At the beginning of the season, we should not spend more than half an hour a day in the blazing sun. Very sensitive areas are often neglected such as the nose, ears, neck and the scalp. That is one way in which first-rate headwear offers protection and Allan Kelly recognises the great advantages Panama straw hats have over other hats: they protect you from the sun and are far more breathable than cotton. A further added value is that none of the styles in the Allan Kelly Headwear range sit too close to the scalp, which keeps the wearer's head cool.

The Panama hat is enjoying a revival. Whether on the golf course, the beach or in the city, a hat by Allan Kelly not only offers a great form of protection, it also means that you will look great in one of Allan Kelly's timeless hats.

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