There are practical hats that keep us warm in the winter, shade our faces in the summer and help us survive bad-hair days. Then there are extreme hats, frivolous, ridiculous, over-the-top headwear ...

Judy McClure’s late husband loved wearing hats so much that when he discovered local hat retailers were shuttering their businesses in the 1990s, he opened his own. “He had been remodeling homes and ...