Bucket hats all the rage

The bucket hat - also known as "spoti" locally - has become this summer's hottest property.

It first became popular in the 1990s as part of the pantsula street-style ''uniform", a township style developed around the pantsula dance, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in Alexandra and Sophiatown in Johannesburg. The style was also referred to as "tsotsi".

The look, which also featured the Converse All-Star shoe brand, was completed with the multicoloured "spotis", khaki pants and Samson dungarees or overalls.

South African hip-hop artists such as Cassper Nyovest, AKA and KO have made the bucket hat popular again. They have fused pantsula and hip-hop, transforming old school kwaito and labelling themselves "Pantsulas for Life".

The look is being appropriated by "cool kids" and global celebs such as Rihanna and Pharrell Williams. One of the hotteest is 2BOP's design featuring old-school paper print advertising on gabardine fabric.