Fruit hat A fruit hat is a festive and colorful hat type popularized byCarmen Miranda and associated with warm locales. This type of hat has been worn by fashionistas, in films, by comic stripcharacters, and for Halloween.
In Film Brazilian "bombshell" Carmen Miranda "made a habit of wearing exotic headdresses/hats often adorned with fruit" and appeared as a singer named Dorita in the 1943 movie The Gang's All Here.
