This is the only one I see where she has long twintails so I'd have to agree that she's probably embarrassed about them; since I can't see the hat being the issue.
Freya211 said: This is the only one I see where she has long twintails so I'd have to agree that she's probably embarrassed about them; since I can't see the hat being the issue.
You're probably right. In post #1344531 by the same artist, you can see Meiling being really embarrassed with twintails.