Angela Lansbury in straw hat promoting Brazil, advertising the northern Ceara area. Selfie Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
I have not yet visited Brazil, so my straw hat which has a hat-band advertising Ceara in Brazil must have come from the World Travel Market. The World Travel Market is a trade show held in November in London at a conference centre in the East End of London reached on driverless the monorail. The Elizabeth line will make the East End of London easier to reach. Now let's look at Brazil and Ceara.
Brazil and Ceara Region
The upward accent is on the second a, the last letter of the name Ceara. It is the acute accent, stressed.
The language of Brazil is Portuguese, unlike the rest of South America which speaks Spanish. I shall tell you about the hat, then about Brazil's Ceara region, the author and his novelist's heroine.
Hat Style
The hat is the same shape as a fedora (shown in felt in Wikipedia) which has a crease from the front to the back on the crown. The brim curves up all around. Mine falls over my eyes and has to be lifted to show my face in photos, at which point the hat-band is invisible, hidden behind the brim. Of course, a taller person will see the hat-band, and my face when I look up at them.
Straw hats from central and South America may be sold as Panama hats.
Straw Hat Advantages
1 Light weight.
2 Summery and seaside or countryside look.
3 Suits the South American image.
4 Neutral colour matches everything.
5 Hatbands can be added using ribbon to match your clothes.
Straw Hat Disadvantages
1 So light that it can easily fall off or blow away.
Remedy a) You need ribbons to hold the hat on when looking down from a clifftop, or in breeze on the mountains or at the seaside or in a high wind on a boat.
Needs a double string or ribbon added to hold it on under the chin. The ribbons could be sewn on at the sides. When the hat is worn, if you cannot tie a neat bow, or if the ribbons don't match your outfit, the ribbons can be concealed under the hair at the back.
Remedy b) In a hurry, you can tie a scarf over the top, over both ears. Tie a bow at the top or under your chin or behind your head and under your hair.
2 The straw in the top of the crown can scratch your head.
Remedy. If so, wear a lighter cloth hat or scarf underneath. You can tuck in the scarf so that it does not show. Or use a scarf to match your outfit and match the hatband.
SIMILAR HAT STYLE NAMES
fedora
Homburg
The stetson or cowboy hat looks larger to me, with a triple crease and turned up wide brim.
FORTELEZA
The capital city of Ceara is Forteleza, a seafront, skyscraper city.
I remember the capital's name as fort, el as in hotel, eza easy, ah.
In the area, buy cheap clothes and hammocks, at the beachfront fair, market near the cathedral, shopping mall(s) and 24 hour supermarkets.
What to see and do in Ceara, NE Brazil:
Apart from eating drinking, and being on the beach (daytime, not night),
local dancing,
waterfalls,
cathedrals,
museums and monuments about the abolition of slavery which took place here in advance of other parts of Brazil
Jose de Al honoured writer and heroine of his books, A Iracema, in street names and beaches.
Eat and Drink
Rice and beans (in this NE region with melted cheese instead of gravy) and drink coconut.
Useful Websites
Travel
The North east coast is known for beaches and waterfalls. The capital is Fortaleza.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Brazil
Hats
My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.
https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear
Portuguese Accents
Duolingo teaches you accents on simple words such as water and the and tests that you have learned by giving you questions with answer options
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/pt/Basics-1/3
Long and complicated explanation of Portuguese accents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_orthography
Over-simplified version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Language
To order bulk buy of promotional hats (shown with a plain black band) for just over two pounds.
https://www.bigbearpromo.co.uk/natural-straw-hat?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhqaVBhCxARIsAHK1tiNl2Tn7IQuvxW_j7cUGLsTCk0qCwZoqsnHzrDp2Njr-CbHc4rweeDAaAoHkEALw_wcB
Only two pounds UK and money off if you sign up as a new member on Shein. Flat brim straw hat (might be plastic imitation)
https://www.shein.co.uk/Minimalist-Straw-Hat-p-8987602-cat-1772.html?url_from=ukadplasc
Tarp hats from recycled tarpaulin
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Useful Websites
Portuguese Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese
Hats
My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.
https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear
https://wikitravel.org/en/Cear%C3%A1
Author José de Alencar
His novel Five Minutes is a romantic novel about a man who is five minutes late and ends up on a bus next to a veiled woman who constantly writes him notes but eludes him, eventually reveals she is dying, yet marries him and recovers).
Iracema - is the name of the book's heroine. Her name means honey lips, and also a play on the letters of the word America. The indigenous heroine marries a man allied to her people's enemy, the colonialists, and their son unites Brazilians.
The author's statue is in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
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Statue of Brazilian author Jose de Alencar, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iracema
- (in Portuguese) Academia Brasileira de Letras
- (in Portuguese) Brazilian literature
- (in English) Iracema, The Honey-lips - A legend of Brazil. (translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton.)
Iracema public domain audiobook at LibriVox
