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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.
Once you properly start wearing hats, it naturally follows that you’ll become an icon. (I know, it’s a hard life.) There are burdens that come with such responsibility, and the final section of this book covers common issues faced by hat-wearers today, with a few simple solutions. By dipping in and out of these pages you will become a fully fledged hat-wearer, who commands respect and answers to no one.
3,300 BC – The earliest known version of a hat is preserved alongside its owner in the ice of a mountain on the border of Austria and Italy, proving that even in the Bronze Age people knew how to dress. Or just keep their heads warm.
3,200 BC – Tomb paintings depict Egyptian men wearing conical straw hats or headdresses.
AD 800 – St Clement, English patron saint of hat-makers, accidentally discovers felt. You could say that this occurrence ranks alongside similar accidental discoveries, such as penicillin and the Slinky.
1571 – An Act of Parliament is passed decreeing that people over the age of six must wear a hat on Sundays. Of course, this only applies to the ‘commoners’.
1597 – The above law is revoked for being far too ridiculous.
17th century – The term ‘milliner’ is first used to describe hatmakers. Milan is already considered a centre of fashion, so the term suggests that only ‘Milan-ers’ make hats.
18th century – The French Revolution makes hats unpopular in France (perhaps for the first and last time), as they’re seen to indicate
