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Once the Meta algorithm figures out that you like to wear hats — which is probably easy for it to do — you will be inundated with ads for hats and hat accessories.
One of them is a clip that lets you hang your hat from your luggage. Which is, indeed, a useful thing because traveling with a nice hat requires commitment to fashion and tolerance of inconvenience. The struggle is real.
The accessory you'll most likely see advertised is the Klipsta, which supposedly uses a "strong magnet" to hold your hat without damage. I made the mistake of buying one (from Amazon; I rarely buy from Instagram ads directly) and the magnet is not strong enough to securely hold anything but a very lightweight straw hat. After this disappointment, having been sold the dream of carefree hat-toting travel, I kept shopping.
The next one I tried was the Travel Hat Clip from Kikkerland. It's much less expensive than the Klipsta, and it actually works! Instead of a weak magnet, it uses a small metal clamp that is similar to those used on men's suspenders.
It's not available from Amazon, but you can find similar items if you look hard enough. But to be clear, the Kikkerland one is the only model I can personally recommend.
So, I thought my quest for a workable hat clip was satisfied, right until I found another solution in a Daiso store. Priced at just over two dollars, this sucker holds on like a co-ed praying to the porcelain god on New Year's Eve.
Just look at the size of that clip! What makes it work so well is the adjustable buckle that ratchets down the grip. It may be overkill for most hats, but it's also useful for other things that you might want to have swinging off your luggage or backpack. If you have a Daiso store near you, the clip is worth checking out.