My new freebie is up. I copied the description from it here because I'm both busy AND lazy, if that makes sense. ;)

This hat was created with intent to be used as a free asset for artists to use in their renders. It is provided as a Daz Studio clothing item for Genesis8Female and can be easily adapted to any model. I have included the geometry in .OBJ format to do with as you please. I look forward to seeing what you will make with it. The clothing item has been completely overhauled. Geometry clipping fixed. It is rigged as a clothing item for Genesis 8 female with transferred weights. After running a few tests it seems to conform to custom head shapes well enough that I didn't need to bother with weight painting. I was going to add morphs for hair before I realized that didn't make sense beyond some subtle stretching with a hat this rigid. Pose your hair instead :P. I still plan to add morphs for movement, crumpling, smashed, etc. Templates have been included as well as and OBJ file. Daz Iray material preset has been adjusted as close to PBR as I could manage, and textures were optimized. Enjoy!

Make sure you download version 1.5 not the previous. If it's not up, Rendo is pending the upload, but I see it on my end.

EDIT: Used in promo - Jani Heels G8f by Arryn/Onnel/Anagord, Curly top Hair g8f, FW Laverne HD for Monique 8

looks great, thanks for sharing, soon as the 1.5 is up will check it out

wow !

Thanks for the nice comments. An update will follow soon fixing a missing file error (the textures still exist in "runtime/textures/nacsientdreamer..." the issue is with the data files) as well as some adjustment morphs and possibly some movement like crumpling etc if I can manage that.

Very nice indeed. Many thanks!

The update is in. Fix for data error, and some morphs. Check the comments under the freestuff item to download it.

Update 1.7 is in the comments of the freestuff item page, adds some color alternatives, the hat as a handheld prop (right hand only for now) with one g8f chorus line pose.