A wide-brimmed straw hat with a ribbon band, styled for sun protection rather than the formal 🎩 Top Hat or the casual 🧢 Baseball Cap. It covers actual sun hats and garden-party fashion, and gets typed for beach vacations, brunch, or anything that calls for dressing a little precious.
What 👒 means
A round cup-like helmet made with a wide brim surrounding it, thus showcasing a wide hat. The 👒 Woman's Hat emoji has an imprint of vintage fashion, style, sophistication, and elegance. On the protective side, it signifies sun protection and fashionably, it's a great choice!
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing pictures of vintage hats, stills from an iconic movie with a trendsetting character, a video of a collection of vintage hats, etc, you must use 👒 in the caption.
- If the vacation you recently (or previously) undertook was a trip to a hot destination (the weather), you may use 👒 while sharing pictures/ videos of the same or even social media stories of an ongoing vacay.
- Apart from just vintage hats, 👒 could be included in generic themes that surround vintage fashion; clothes, shoes, coats, cars, anything.
- 👒 could also be a reference to the type of fashion, style, and era that predominantly wore a wide-brimmed hat.
Other Names
- 👒 Wide-Brimmed Hat
- 👒 Vacation Hat
- 👒 Headgear
- 👒 Head Piece
- 👒 Chapeau
- 👒 Boonie Hat
- 👒 Ladies Hat
- 👒 Hat
- 👒 Hat With Bow
👒 in real conversations
What does 👒 mean when someone posts it in summer?
A wide-brimmed sun hat, and everything that comes with one — garden parties, brunch on a patio, a beach day dressed up rather than dressed down. 👒 reads as elegant rather than practical, the accessory picked for how it photographs as much as for sun protection. It shows up constantly on outdoor-event and vacation posts alike.
Why does 👒 show up around the Kentucky Derby?
Because elaborate hats are basically the Derby's second event — the tradition dates back to the race's 1875 founding, modeled on British racing's dress codes, and exploded once television cameras started covering it in the 1960s, pushing hats to get bigger and bolder for the shot. 👒 carries that whole spectacle into Derby-week captions.
Is 👒 used for anything besides literal hats?
Mostly it stays literal — a sun hat, a fancy occasion, a look finished off with the right accessory. Once in a while it captions a compliment about someone's outfit being extra put-together, the visual equivalent of saying 'she dressed up for this.' There's no real slang meaning riding underneath it the way some accessory emoji carry.
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1F452- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:womans_hat:- Keywords
- clothes, clothing, garden, hat, hats, party, woman, woman’s
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👒 Woman’s Hat or 👷♀️ Woman Construction Worker?