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EDMONTON – When Premier Rachel Notley was caught on camera at the Calgary Stampede wearing her white wool cowboy hat backwards, Twitter was filled with giggles, guffaws and some political grandstanding.

It was an error that lasted only a few seconds, but lived on in photos of Notley shaking the hand of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was wearing his black cowboy hat properly: front to tail.

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“Face palm,” someone wrote on Twitter. “And this woman runs Alberta. #fail.”

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The official photo was taken hours after Notley received her white Smithbilt Hat, a Stampede tradition. When she initially moved to put the hat on backward, the crowd immediately hollered instructions until she flipped it over.

Between then and the Harper handshake, the hat got turned around.

“It’s absolutely unintentional,” said Cheryl Oates, the premier’s spokeswoman, noting Notley grew up on a farm in Fairview and rode horses as a child. “She was born and raised here her whole life and she respects all the intricacies that go with that culture.”