We curvy girls are so many times told that we have “such a pretty face” right? (Like we don’t already know!) Well, why not frame it and our Mona Lisa smiles with this season’s trendiest item—a hat.
Hats have made it to the top of the trends this season and as a hat aficionada, I feel compelled to think hat thoughts here. I’m well aware that people may snicker when I confess my love affair with hats because quite simply, hats are not for everyone.
My full-figured friend from San Francisco explained that in her opinion, “Hats are too much of a problem, and they ruin your hair.” While a damaged coif a.k.a “hat head” is indeed a genuine concern, I think she’s taking the easy way out. You want to know the truth about choosing to wear a hat? It takes almost as much guts as putting on hot pants, sometimes more. Think about it, when you wear something on your head, everyone notices!
For me, going to college in the Midwest, hats were not so much a display of fashion as they were an accessory of function. That said, I made sure that fashion and function collided as often as possible! My close relationship with this object d’art started to fade when I moved to Manhattan after those chilly college years in Kalamazoo. I wore hats on occasion, but I had lost my joy. Then I found myself working on a fashion shoot in Minneapolis, and one item short of a Mary Tyler Moore moment. (Can you believe I dared to brave that subzero city without a hat?) Thank goodness I remembered that packed up in my hotel room was a selection of hats for the shoot that I turned to for both inspiration and protection. Now that my passion for hats has reignited, I see that there’s no shortage of hat styles on and off the runways to restock my hatbox! I’ve been looking around and found fashion + function in spades.
From the chic designer look of Calvin Klein cable knit skullcaps complete in sets with gloves and a cable scarf for $36.00 and in the season’s hottest color, grey, to attitude-inspiring newsboy caps in knits like this one from the Merona collection at Target, and even fedoras like these ones from Hats In the Belfry, each hat makes a statement of its own—but I do have some favorites:
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