Join the Hat Pack
Every cool woman-about-town is wearing a hat this winter. Madonna, Stella, Kate, Sadie, Jade, Liv and Beyoncé all sport gorgeous hats both to parties and the park. Whether it’s a trilby pulled low over the eyes to protect against the flash bulbs of the paparazzi, a tweed flat cap worn at a jaunty angle, a vintage cloche with a spray of net, or a grungy beanie, a hat has become synonymous with a trendy celebrity set known as the “hat pack“.
Hats featured on many of the autumn/winter catwalks, and they suit most high street trends, from trouser suits and country tweeds to Twenties and Forties styles, punk and Space Age. Of course, not just any old hat will do. Formal hats – the sort you’d wear to Ascot or a wedding – are deeply unchic, as are certain classics.
This means that pop stars who are well-known for wearing a particular hat – Prince and his fedora, Missy Elliott and her baseball caps and Jay Kay and any hat so long as it’s loud – now look a little out of touch.
The top five styles this winter are the trilby, flat cap, beanie, baker boy cap and vintage. Celebrity couples who don his and hers styles, such as Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, Guy Ritchie and Madonna, and Jude Law and Sienna Miller, are honorary members of the hat pack. However, Victoria and David Beckham and Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis make the fatal fashion error of taking their hats too seriously.
How you wear a hat is crucial; 21st-century headgear should be worn with a sense of irony. Madonna and co get it right by yanking theirs nonchalantly into place and accessorising them with a cheeky smile. Posing and pouting provocatively in a trilby, like Britney or Christina Aguilera, is seriously old hat.
Source: Teleghap.co.uk