
Youâre hot, the sunâs beating down, and you left home without your hat. How can you create a little shade for yourself? Well, you could take some inspiration from these ladies and repurpose your newspaper. That is, if you can still find one in a pinch.
Here we have, as per the caption, âSpectators at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships wearing newspaper sun hats,â circa 1952. This was apparently quite a popular trick for coping with the heat in the era before air conditioningâespecially, for some reason, at Wimbledon. Hereâs a group of schoolgirls a year later, shielding themselves similarly.

A trio attending 1954. Is that woman wearing The Daily Mail?

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And 1976.

The best solution, however, is forget Wimbledonâfashion yourself a sun hat and find a cool tub of water somewhere.
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