If you have been on Instagram or watched a music video lately, you will see that the fashion and influencer world have decided that hats are back! Let's talk about some of the different fashion hats you will find taking over the streets and beaches! The versatile wide brim floppy hat , whilst being a great provider of sun protection, calls out every beach and city-goers name with its fun, statement providing, and boundless styling.
Dressed down, you can wear it simply with a bathing suit. Dressed up, you can rock some heels at the derby with a floppy hat and turn heads. Mostly made from straw, but also can be made with other materials like wool and polyester, the floppy hat is the must-have item for summer due to the sun protective wide brim!
Western Hats, also known as Cowboy or Cowgirl Hats, have a distinct high crown with a wide brim and are the defining piece of attire for the American Cowboy. The wide brim is sun protective and they are generally waterproof. The company and brand Stetson is credited with creating the original Great Plains hat in and has maintained a forefront design and manufacturing position when it comes to cowboy hats to this day.
Modern twists on the cowboy hat include buckles and bows, and the material ranges from felt, wool, and least often, leather as one can imagine, leather can be hot to the head and not a friend of the scorching sun. Shades of brown, beige, and black are most common. Former President Ronald Reagan famously starred in Western films whereas a cowboy he wore a Western Hat on and off the screen in later years. Dress code etiquette in England, and many other European nations, calls for hats to be worn for formal occasions, such as a wedding or a Christening.
In the s, a new term to describe the hybrid of the fascinator and a hat emerged: the hatinator. In it, she wore a center-creased, soft brimmed hat. They have had a particularly large fan base amongst the art and music community, being worn by the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra and later being adopted by Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake to name a few.
Fedoras have a wide brim, the crown that is pinched, and a ribbon. A true fedora is historically made out of felt or wool, however, modern fedoras are more commonly being made from straw and paper, to accommodate for increasing sun-protective demand whilst still maintaining the preference of the fedora shape.
Many people often interchange Panama and Fedora hats as being one of the same, and we shall explain the differences in the next section. Later in , President Roosevelt wearing a Panama hat during his visit to the Panama Canal construction site further reinforced the name.
Photography was new at the time, and the image of President Roosevelt wearing a crisp light suit with an Ecuadorian made Panama hat became one ingrained visually to many around the world.
Panama hats are made from a special lightweight and light-colored straw from the toquilla palm. They are most commonly associated with having a fedora shape, but they can be made in a boater style or other style.
One scroll through Instagram, and specifically, summer travel feeds, and you will be inundated with hats on both women and men alike. Why is that? If you are like most people, hand placement when posing for pictures is quite frustrating and puzzling, and a hat is a perfect accessory that makes you look fabulous and your pictures more interesting. Not surprisingly, due to its unisex and versatile appeal, the boater hat is quite possibly the most photographed hat on Instagram.
Coco Chanel herself was very fond of the boater style and wore it quite often. This day would vary, depending on where you were geographically, but you can see from the sea of boater hats in the image below how popular it was on such a day. Made popular by their namesake in Europe and America, newsboy hats arose in the late s and early s and were commonly associated with newsboys though adopted also by the upper-class for hunting or and sport shooting , and were later adapted as fashion hats for women as well starting in the s.
Today, it is modernly styled by even the Royal Family as seen on Prince William and of many different fabrics aside from its original tweed, from wool to leather.
A soft, round, flat crowned cap and once known as a peasants hat in Europe, farmers and artists were commonly associated with it as felt was so easy and cheap to come by , the beret has evolved as a fashion piece and in many cases throughout the 20th century a political statement. In Pop Culture, we recognize the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Beyonce donning their elegantly timeless and stylish berets.
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This guide breaks down all of the styles you have to choose from! Or maybe your mind goes right to a jaunty top hat. Amazingly, there are over different types of hat that exist in the universe! The baseball cap became popular in the s when it was worn by the Brooklyn Excelsiors.
New Era Cap in New York changed the game with snapbacks. Your old man can be embarrassing sometimes, but you have to admit, he looks pretty cool in his dad hat! This style, which became popular in the 90s, has a flat brim and a slouchy, unfitted look. It pairs especially well with dad sneakers, aka, white gym shoes! Unless you lived under a rock in the s, you know all about the trucker hat craze. These were baseball caps with mesh backs that were worn by celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake.
Tennis stars, golfers, and volleyball players love wearing visors. In fact, these hats were originally designed for use in outdoor sports. Spalding, which opened in in Chicago, is one of the top manufacturers of visors in the United States. Have you ever wondered how beanies got their name? This style was worn by frontiersmen and mountain climbers as they hiked terrains like the Appalachians. In World War I, pilots also wore aviator hats as protection against biting winds.
Upper class men wore top hats in the 18th century. She became iconic for this look, and women all over France had to have a fedora of their own! You need a keen eye not to confuse a trilby with a fedora. Trilby hats have a shorter brim, which is tilted down in the front. Fedoras, on the other hand, have a wider brim and are meant to be worn at a more level angle.
This style is close to a fedora, only with a rounded crown instead of an indented one. This type of hat has an indented crown and was popularized by s gangsters. It belongs in the fedora family and is often associated with luxury. In fact, a homburg was first worn by a king in Britain! Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill were also fans of homburg hats.
During the Renaissance, berets were strictly worn by peasants and those in poor social classes. The cap has since grown out of these humble beginnings and is now popular with fashionistas, revolutionaries, and the military. A milliner named Caroline Reboux invented this style of hat in Newsboys handed these out on the streets, wearing puffy flat caps with a small visor on the front.
Today, these hats are a major part of the fashion world. Ascot caps have a hard, round shape on top. They come in earthy or muted colors like beige, gray, brown, or black. This stylish headwear went on to become famous thanks to silent film star Charlie Chaplin. Giddy up and get yourself a cowboy hat! This style was inspired by the Old West where cattlemen made hats from beaver or rabbit fur. Luckily for the animals, we can use felt to make cowboy hats in the modern age.
Police officers and army sergeants are just a couple professions who have been known to wear breton hats. These caps sit low on your head and are fitted on the front with a sun-shielding visor. The military wears camouflage army hats known as peaked or service caps during basic training. This inspired fashion designers to create more casual versions of army hats, which come in a variety of colors and patterns.
It was instead all about pillboxes, which were hats with square-shaped crowns and visors. For the history of the boater hat, we need to set sail to Venice, Italy in the late s. Gondoliers wore these caps, which were adorned with a ribbon that blew in the breeze as they rowed. Before long, this headwear got out of the water and into barbershop quartets and school uniforms across Europe. A good number of hat styles were created in Europe, but the panama hat is a South American original. It comes from Ecuador and is designed to be lightweight and breathable.
Humphrey Bogart is the most famous wearer of panama hats in the United States and went on to inspire his fans to wear one of their own. Protect your face and get that beachy look with a sun hat. These hats are usually made from straw and have a floppy brim in the front. Whether you win one as a prize at a carnival or buy one to make your friends laugh, novelty hats come in all kinds of weird shapes. Some of the most famous include: helicopter hats, beer hats with straws for sipping, the cheese hats worn by Green Bay Packers fans, and the tall, striped Dr.
Seuss hats. Bucket hats are about as 90s as it gets, but they were actually invented in Ireland in the early s. A wide variety of people love these loose-fitting hats, from break dancers to fishers. Do you need a Halloween costume? Grab a pipe, tweed jacket, and a deerstalker to be Sherlock Holmes! The fictional sleuth made these hats popular in , but they were worn well before then by hunters in Scotland.
The guests at royal weddings wear all kinds of crazy headwear, better known as fascinators. These hats are basically abstract art worn on the head and are designed for fashion rather than function. Now the sombrero is a big part of Mexican culture, and mariachi bands often wear decorative ones with embroidery and beading.
In many restaurants, the chefs wear a white pleated hat while they cook. These are known as toques and were first worn in 19th century Europe.
Back then, each pleat in the hat represented a recipe the chef had mastered. Edward W. Bullard, an army lieutenant, saw firsthand how helmets could save lives during World War I. This inspired him to create safety hats for miners, construction workers, and shipyard workers. The rest is history and now hard hats, along with reflective safety vests , are a must on every hazardous job site.
Santa Claus is coming to town with a bag of gifts and a fancy velvet coat, leather belt, mittens, and a droopy fleece hat. This outfit was inspired by, surprisingly enough, Coca-Cola ads from the s. These paper hats are super cheap, but back in the day, they were high-end items.
Egyptian pharaohs and medieval kings and queens all wore distinct, conical crowns.
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