Do you feel or really do look daft in winter hats?

[KnopkaPixie]

My mum has sent me a black bobble hat. One of those with a fake fur bobble. It gave me quite the turn when I opened the envelope and touched the furry bobble first as it gave me the sensation of stroking a dead animal.

I got over this distressful upsetment and it's very warm and cosy. I have worn it outside the house today. I teamed it with a slightly above the knee black dress/skirt, black opaque tights and black lace up ankle boots. I also wore a black not suede/microfiber biker jacket. (You know the type of thing.) I am very tall, lanky and ginger.

"Oh look! It's Santa's mafia elf." was said by a friend. I do live in Corsica so we often think of organised crime.

The less said about my Monsoon amethyst/purple jewelled béret the better and my tam o'shanter look was pretty dire as well.

I just look awful in winter hats. Then of course you have the winter hat with glasses look which is another minefield.

How do you manage to look good in a winter hat? Or do you just put it on and swallow your pride for the sake of warmth?

Then again, summer hats are another minefield. There is one really good photo of me in a green army bucket hat thing in which I look really cool but otherwise...

I get greasy and flat. That's my hat hair.

Clearly you have never seen me in a Winter bobble hat! I look frankly ridiculous. It's a mystery because I own (and look) rather fetching in several Summer weddings hats.

But knitted bobble hats is a hard no. As are sodding ear muffs (as evidenced by the gales of laughter from the DDs when I've worn them).

It's annoying because I have a pixie crop and my ears get so cold.

It has to be the unicorn of hats otherwise I look daft

I have a small head - I wear child size . So adult hats and I can't see

I have short hair and my hair never knows what to do with itself in a hat. Just these short tufts pointing out

Then I get too hot and flustered

I am partial to a head band though

Have you ever tried the "Baker Boy" hat trend or is this too outré and we don't all look like a young Jane Birkin?

I look rubbish in hats but I just try to be nice and hope that people will take me for being nice instead of sexy. It sort of works so far.

This is how I look in a winter hat. But I don’t care - I would rather be warm!
(link to Victoria Wood sketch “Kimberley”)

Hats take more trial and error than you think. You have to be careful of the colour, texture and scale because they're right next to your skin and hair, black hats are unusually quite draining.

Most hats require you to lean into them, wear them down to your eyebrows almost... no perching or balancing except at weddings and the races.

Most hats look better with a suggestion of hair underneath. Hair up underneath almost always looks terrible.

Start with clean hair and a blast of dry shampoo to avoid flattering.

Bring the rest of the clothing up to your hat... so chunky collars, hoods and scarves are your friend, and help with colour, scale and texture

It's particularly difficult to wear warm hats with heels. So don't.

Faux fur bobbles are out. Yarn bobbles are fine.

If you want to look put together, match some or all of your hat scarf and gloves.

Wear beanie hats, not bobbles under hoods.

i may look daft, but being warm is better

Living in a cold climate my first thought turned to static which is a real problem.
Then I got to thinking hat hair really is when the hat you're wearing flattens your hair into a prearranged style that is not your own.
I find that my hair does that mostly when just washed.
Even if it's dry the hat seems to make creases in it where they shouldn't be, but then my hair is very fine.
The easiest way to prevent hat hair, I'm guessing, is either to wear a very loose-fitting hat, or none at all 🤷

I’ve got one of my DDs hats that she didn’t want anymore. I love it, it’s knitted with a fur trim and a dangly Pom Pom. I look ridiculous in it, even the cats smirk when I put it on, but I can’t bear being cold. Wore it today to the Co-Op, which is always really hot and stuffy, so whipped it off as I went through the door, all casual like, and it got caught on an earring, so there I was trying to take my earring out with lovely hat attached, whilst loads of shoppers were trying to leave the store. Next time I wear it I won’t be wearing earrings!

Excellent advice! 👍