I do love this hat, it gives me a Cali cowgirl vibe. It's very cute.If you want to remove the band, you can, it's just glue gunned on, I pulled it off because I wanted to make my own band with some friends.The material is a little cheap, pieces of string/straw from the hat was coming off but I simple trimmed it and it looked perfectly fine afterwards. When I received it, it was a little folded. I used a blow dryer on warm and some patience to reshape it