Japan’s Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko travelled to Brazil last week for an official visit related to the 140th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between these two countries. On Monday, January 27, 2014, the royal couple put a wreath at Commemorative Monument to Japanese Inmigration to Peru at Campo de Marte in Lima. Princess Kiko wore a smart white square-crowned hat with small upturned brim for this event.
Last Friday, Princess Kiko payed homage to Argentina’s national hero Gen. Jose de San Martin in Buenos Aires. She wore a similarly shaped hat in black with a wide velvet band around the crown. Neither of these hats are particularly interesting- a slight disappointment after the vibrant and more daring hats we saw from the Japanese royal ladies at New Year (see here and here).
What do you think of these two hats?
Photos from Andino via Corbis and Corbis
Royal Hats 
They’re fine, just really boring. Almost all the hats worn by Japanese royal ladies, apart from the Empress’s little saucers, wouldn’t look out of place on the heads of schoolgirls (if you look at pictures of Japanese girls’ school uniforms, you’ll see they almost all feature a similar hat, although usually worn a bit further back with elastic under the chin!).
I love the white hat…the black one not so much.
These hats might not be interesting or dramatic but they are very flattering and appropriate for a formal royal tour.
I agree. The black hat with the white suit with black trim is very elegant!