The Art of Wearing Hats: What to choose. Where to find. How to style.
The perfect and practical pocket guide to being a hat wearer for novices and aficionados alike, complete with tips on where to buy them, how to wear them, who wears them best and tricks of the trade (yes hat hair, we’re looking at you).Hats have been a mainstay of fashion for centuries, but now they’re back with a bang – overtaking the accessories departments of Topshop et al and gracing the celebrated heads of Taylor Swift, Cara Delevigne, Johnny Depp and the like day in and day out. But which one should you wear? Which will suit you best, how should you wear them and when?The Art of Wearing Hats answers all these questions and more. Broken down into chapters covering everyday, outdoor and special occasion hats, you’ll soon discover the full range to choose from, alongside who in the Googlable world you can turn to for styling tips, and fun facts about where each originated from.Complete with illustrations and tips on how to grow your hat-wearing confidence, it might be an idea to start making room in your wardrobe.
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Contents
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No.2: Hats to Wear in the Wild
No.3: Hats to Wear to the Palace
The hat is back. Not with a bang or a grandiose flourish, but with a growing murmur as it gathers a dedicated following. It’s cropping up more and more frequently: from weddings and walks, to festivals, holidays and quick nips to the shops, people are rediscovering the trilby and the turban, the pillbox and the pork pie. It’s a quietly quirky fashion revolution.
Do you want to know a secret? The hat never left. While it’s been fading from common use over the past few decades, every now and then someone rediscovers it. Look at Kate Middleton, Cara Delevingne, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams: all lauded for their pioneering hattitude, and all inspiring more and more people to don a hat.
This book is an ode to you – to the person who sees the power of a good hat, whether they wear one or not. If you’re already a hat enthusiast, delve into these pages for ideas to further refine your unique look. If you’re afflicted by The Fear, believing that hats don’t suit you, ask yourself why that is – it’s possible that you simply haven’t found the right one yet.
Catwalking some of the best, most versatile hats around, this book offers advice on how and when to wear them, what with and where to, and lists a variety of shops to buy them from. It suggests which hats suit different face shapes and head sizes, and gives tips and tricks for making the most of each hat. It provides stories from the history of different hats (you might be surprised by some), and will point you in the direction of becoming the hat-wearer you were always born to be.
Wearing a hat doesn’t actually take anything more than confidence, but understanding the true magic of hats – and how they can transform the wearer into a mysterious stranger – can’t always be learnt alone. Using this book will help you uncover their secrets, master them and work out how to wear hats every day.
The list of contents and index in this book can help you determine exactly what kind of hat you’re looking for, with the contents organising them by occasion and the index by season.
Once you’ve decided on a hat of interest, you can find more information on its origin, anecdotes from its history and a list of specific suggestions and ideas for finding and wearing it under the following headings:
WEAR IT When to wear the hat – occasions, weather and season.
OWN IT What face shapes, head sizes or hair styles can really own the hat.
STYLE IT What to wear it with.
FIND IT Where’s best to buy one.
PERFECT IT Top tips and tricks for wearing the hat.
STYLE GURU Which celebrities wear this hat best and why, giving you all the hat-spiration you’ll ever need.
This book is a guide to help you along the path of discovering hats, to encourage you to create your own style and to become an inspiration to the rest of us.
While there are considerably more hats designed for women, this book also provides pointers for those fashion-savvy men who really know how to dress. Many of the hats listed here can – and should! – be adopted by both sexes.
