how do oyu try on hats in a shop avoiding TWAT potential

[InterruptingKid]

you see hat
it might be a twat hat
you place hat on ponce
you look a ponce.

how do you not let anyone see you?

bugger

HAT on BONCE!!

Take it in the changing room. Our Accessorize and Monsoon are combined so it's doable. I look like a mutt in a hat.

NO!
you take them into the changing room!! LOL

go with a friend and make out you're being loopy

Changing room the only way.

Everybody who tries on a hat in public always looks ridiculous. This has nothing to do with the hat, but everything to do with the fact that it is physically impossible to try on a hat when there is even the remotest chance someone might see you without:
a: pulling a silly face
b: doing a wierd shrugging motion/awkward neck bend
c: pulling it down too far in a comical manner

I am an expert on this at both the personal hat-trying level, and the watching-people-hat-trying level.

I have noticed recently EVERYTIME i try on something i tilt my head sideways

I don't fit hats unless they're stretchy, so never have this dilemma. I have a huge giant mutant head. This is why I never go to society weddings .

i stand
put my hands on my hips
one leg fwd ( ala hurley) and tilt

why why why

Its impossible to avoid. You just have to embrace the twat.

Actually, hats are a sore point with me at the moment.

I used to look good in hats when I was younger.

Tight-fitting little beanie type hats were adorably cute on me. Caps were jaunty and stylish on me. etc etc

Now beanie hats make me look like I have a micro-head.

Caps make me look like a micro-head with a beak. etc etc.

What has happened?

I know face-shape changes with age, but surely there is some middle period between cute'n'perky and munter?

take a friend and have a laugh at the same time

Have a slouchy beanie to send back, looks truly ridiculous on me, I ordered it from M&S.

I much prefer being the twat trying on the hat, to attempting to find something online and then having the hassle of taking it back, never think about looking like a twat in shops, I mean it is all part of the clothes shopping thing?

I don't watch other people trying on hats - too busy looking at clothes etc.

i would love to know - I have so far avoided buying hats for this reason

i want a beret bu DP says I would look like a twat - suspect he is right

No, no, berets look good on everyone

They are all things to all (wo)men (as it were)

Do it

90% of hats suit me - make me look better even. It's very odd - it must mean that there's something wrong with my normal head shape, or lacking above the forehead. Oh, and I was born 50 years too late. Sigh.

How uncannily accurate this thread is.
The only time I was ever liberated from hat twatdom was living in Russia where you are considered a (suicidal) twat if you don't wear a hat.

I had (have) a fabulous beaver number that was fantastically stylish andwarm.
Wouldn't go down so well in Snowdonia thoguh.

oh that's good to know dampsquib

will work up courage to take the plunge

You have to realise that you will look an utter twat to passers by and embrace it.

Lol at Liz Hurley stance.

i used to love the hat racks in British Home Stires and Debenhams when I was a kid, especially the Lady Di inspired bright purple picture hat types.

lol at this thread
it's so true
I often see nice hats but then don't try on for fear of looking a twat

my head is also mutant large

I remember BHS having large hat section in the 80's, we used to have a larf in there

One HAs to be with Ones Mum when trying on hats. I love it. Especially if a small crowd gathers to say how fab I look.

rofl at moondog's fabulous beaver

rofl at fabulous beaver.

I can't stop myself from doing blue steel when I look in the mirror in shops. Changing room is the only way. You have to take in other stuff as well to make it look less loony.