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"Good," Emily said, her hat wiggling despite no breeze.
"Good," Emily said, her hat wiggling in the calm air.

Thanks daddy

I'm not sure what you meant by the sentence alone. However, what you can do is simply separate the sentences.

That works, too. Something like: "Good," Emily said. Her hat wiggled despite the lack of breeze.

Also, oftentimes phrases like "in spite of" that can be replaced with "despite" go against flow and concision.

I'm more concerned with the word usage 'wriggle.' Since you won't generally compare the gust trying to blow away a hat with wriggling, I don't think the particular imagery works here and just makes me confused.

Not wriggle: Wiggle. From my understanding, the hat is just moving without a breeze.

Wriggle is a word?

It is, and it's basically the same lol.

Prob could just condense it, don't really action tags and dialogue tags.

"Good." Emily's hat fluttered like a flag in the breeze. There was no wind in the room. (or outside, meh)

IDK, depends on what the emphasis should be on, Emily or her hat? Usually what ever is earlier in the sentence pops more.

Though, she is right. A different word would be better than wiggle most likely.