eBay WTF of the Day: Easter Basket, Cha Cha Cha!

This hat is ludicrous. This is a hat you buy for your niece when you're a tourist, and you're drunk, and you can't remember how old your niece is, and you've never worn a hat and you have questionable taste to begin with. For about $12.99. I'm looking at you, Seller. (It's listed for $11.99. Bargain!)

This Smurf sombrero blends a great many fashion no-nos into one. Firstly, there's the basket issue. Now, I understand and respect the concept of a straw sunhat, but this looks like it came from the kind of factory where they make both hats and baskets; a factory whose motto is something like: "Weave now, decide later." And basically, what they end up deciding is that if it's Easter, it's a basket, and if it's not, it's a hat.

And then they put fringe on it. That's issue numero dos. Picture this hat without the fringe. I know, it's still not a great hat or anything, but would you think to yourself, "All that needs is a little fringe!"?

The third issue, my friends, is the color the color the color. It's like they dipped it all the way into blue dye and thought "actually, that color's kind of ugly ... pull it up out of the dye in stages and maybe one of the colors will be decent." And true, the colors are not so bad separately, but none of them belongs on a sun hat or sombrero. Or a sunbrero. Together, they create a trinity of three-hour-tour tribulations. Calamity.

If someone came to my apartment in this hat, I would think they picked it up at the dollar store I live above, or maybe even that they went down the street to the really, really nasty dollar store that is always under construction and smells like cat pee. In other worse: Not fashion forward.

Seller, I don't know what to tell you. You can't burn it; the ozone would explode. You can't put it in a landfill; it would never biodegrade. You can't chuck it in the ocean; some poor fish might end up wearing it. Now I understand why people are considering shooting trash into outer space — which, in some ways, is the equivalent of selling it on eBay. WTF?

Photo by yardsaleandmore via eBay.