I wear a face shield in the mornings. On a farm, when you're blasting out muck buckets with a hose, you only have to get liquid feces up your nose once before you seek solutions.

The face shield I've got is the polycarbonate 3M kind that you'd wear if using a lathe. It's overkill, bulky and you can't get a baseball cap over it, which is annoying when it's sunny. So I was excited to come across the perfect solution, designed by Studio Weber + Associates, industrial designer Jeff Weber's shop in Minnesota. Called Shield-Hat, it was developed during the pandemic:

"The shield is fabricated by high speed die cutting 18 mil PET (flat plastic sheet) and then folding and connecting the carefully designed flat geometry into a contoured 3-dimensional form that encapsulates the user's face."

It is such a smart design. With the rash of face shield designs we saw in 2020, the strap holding it to your head was always the tricky part. By offloading the head interface to a baseball cap (which I am admittedly biased towards believing are ubiquitous, due to my rural location), you instantly solve problems of both comfort and fit.

Alas, the production of these did not outlast the pandemic, and they're no longer available.