Fishing hats, walking boots and rucksacks are this summer's key accessories. You can team them with bikinis and vests or - just in case the sun fails to shine - with sturdy khaki trousers, thick ribbed tops and hooded sweatshirts

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SOME people set out with the deliberate intention of running their own business, others stumble into it, writes Roger Trapp. By her own admission, Julie McDonagh is firmly in the latter camp. "It just happened," she says.

"The important thing is to find the right style for you. Try on as many as possible until you find the best shape for your face. Most people make the mistake of plonking a hat on the back of their head, but it should be worn either straight on, so you're peeping out from under it, or at an angle. Never wear polyester, it's such a naff fabric and very unflattering and heavy. The key to a good hat is that it should look light; not necessarily in colour but in effect. Feathers are good for this and always very flattering. It's got to be light to wear as well, so you don't feel you're being pulled down by it.

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On the street; Shoppers at London's Camden market set out their sartorial stalls.

Sir: You report (27 April) that the Bradford & Bingley's bowler hat was ousted because research showed that it was thought sexist. Had anybody asked me, I would have said that it always brought Cabaret to mind. Surely nobody thinks of bowler hats in any other context nowadays, and this is something which upon which the sexy new bank could surely capitalise.

The first five correct answers out of the hat win a super de luxe black Fool baseball cap.

A hundred years ago, ostrich plumes suddenly became more valuable than gold. Rob Nixon, who was brought up near the ostrich farms of South Africa, recalls the elaborate fantasies that the gawky big birds inspired

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The Independent Television Commission has upheld complaints about Sooty and Sweep encouraging dangerous behaviour among children. This followed an episode in which the puppets behaved oddly after sniffing oils from aromatherapy bottles.

THIS MONTH India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, marks one year in office. It's been a roller-coaster ride: from the struggle to put together a coalition with a majority in parliament, to the testing of India's nuclear weapons; from the endless fudging over economic policy, to the striking simplicity and boldness of his decision last month to ride the first bus to Pakistan.

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