Beret, yay or nay?

[HettyAmaretti]

Need a winter hat and am looking on the local version of Ebay. I think I might fancy a beret, maybe this or this .

TBH I actually really fancy a cloche hat, maybe this but it's odd (as am I) and maybe a bit much for everyday. Also over budget.

Any ideas (regardless of price, just for inspiration) would be much appreciated.

Also like this weird grey thing, should I just do dull black bobble hat.

should I be sectioned?

Coat is black (and a whole other thread), if I replace it then I'll still go with black or possibly grey.

I like a beret. But I think you have to have good haircut that goes with it IYSWIM

Ah, right. Hadn't thought of that. What sort of haircut would that be? Mine is long and layered with layered fringe (brown).

I also have glasses, maybe hat, glasses and fringe is just too much. sounds like a game of guess who!

The glasses I usually wear are a grey version of this butterfly model I do have some black ones but prefer the grey.

I fear I must drop the idea of wearing a hat altogether, I really don't want to grow out teh fringe / be half blind. Both fringe and glasses have appeared since last winter...

I think a baggy beret, like the grey one you linked to, is the best option (biased as I just bought one )

I think it needs a haircut where the hair will come out of the hat and be on show around your face (i.e. it wouldn't work if hair was scraped back) - but sounds like you have that with the fringe and the layering.

It's a slightly 1970s look to me, but that's not a bad thing.

I've just bought a grey beret from John Lewis for all of £12. I have a side fringe and layered hair which is just above shoulder length. I think it looks okay and DH says it makes me look younger. maybe wear in bed too

I think you need to have hair below the edge of the beret to look okay- last year my hair was shorter and berets looked very odd. Now they look fetching like Bonny and Clyde- if you are old enough to remember that film.

Thank you.

I'm all of a dither

Hetti

Arf
@guess who

I would tuck fringe into hat

And get contact lenses. It's ALL ABOUT THE HAT

But I love me glasses!

hat & glasses too much? I don;t have a beard

Joking about glasses. I reckon tuck your fringe up inside beret

Do you like the way I talk with absolute authority about something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with me?

Love berets

Yes, cyb I do! With you a nd noddy on side I shall go for it. possibly.

So, this one (third photo is a different hat) or this one? I think I'm going with the first one. Or maybe I should just hit the shops, are there many about?

I got a nice one from Accessorize, with a bow on the front. I've had lots of nice comments about it.

Love berets and I have got mad curls .

I love berets, I have a black one, grey one, fuchsia with flowers on the side and a leopard print one. I think they look cool but as someone else said the right haircut is needed. I went for a jaw length cut once and never wore a hat for two years as it just looked wrong.