Wallaroo Hats.

AuthorPeterson, Eric
PositionWallaroo Hat Company LLC - Brief Article

In 1999, Stephanie Carter was Down Under with her Australian husband visiting his family. "His mother had one of these hats on," she recalled. "I love hats, and I had never seen anything in the American market like them." So Carter, a Boulder-based attorney, co-founded Wallaroo Hat Co. with friend Lenya Shore and started selling the wide-brimmed. Aussie-inspired hats stateside. All 17 hats in the Wallaroo catalog have an ultraviolet protection rating of 50+, shielding the wearer's noggin from more than 97 percent of harmful solar radiation. The market has responded: In six years, Carter and...

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