Hats

How to Curve a Top Hat

For the girl who loves to make a statement with her wardrobe, the top hat is am delightful accessory. Often made of felt, wool or leather, these head-toppers run the gamut from simple to over-the-top, depending on the decorative embellishments....

The Importance of Wearing a Hat in the Winter

A cozy, knitted winter hat can give your cold-weather ensemble just the right look. Unlike wearing the latest pair of sky-high heels, donning a stylish hat in icy conditions is also good for you. Avoid frostbite and hypothermia while rocking a...

What Can a Woman Wear a Fedora Hat With?

A fedora is traditionally a man’s hat, but a modern fashion diva can make this look her own without resorting to an entire ensemble drug out of her boyfriend’s closet. The key to choosing an outfit to wear with a fedora is keeping a...

Tips for Choosing a Brimmed Hat

The royal wedding of England's Prince William and Catherine Middleton -- now the Duchess of Cambridge -- brought hats back in vogue. Now you spot them everywhere, from your friend’s wedding to the beach. A fine line exists, however, between...

Accessorizing With a Hat

Want to look more polished or add another pop of color to your ensemble? Accessorize your outfits with a fun and flirty hat. Whether you are prepping for a tropical vacation or running weekend errands, the right hat can jazz up jeans or add...

Do You Need to Wear a Scarf With Gloves & Hat?

Scarves, gloves and hats are all accessories, and there's no hard-and-fast rule on how to wear them. Like much of fashion, what you choose to wear is all about personal expression. During the winter, you might want to wear a scarf, hat and gloves...

How to Know the Age of a Burberry Hat

If your guilty pleasures include Desperate Housewives, you probably caught the episode in which Bree’s son Andrew ran over Carlos’ mother. Sure, fans were glued to screens when the episode ran; but in the midst of tragedy, some only...

Hats to Wear With Black Plaid

When you want a classic preppy look, a black plaid pattern definitely delivers the goods. But it can be a more versatile pattern if you mix up the accessories you pair with it. Playing around with different hats is one way to rev up the look of...

How to Do Hair With a Sun Hat

Sporting a floppy sun hat is a great way to protect your scalp and hair from UV rays. The added bonus: They're super chic. Sun hats are more versatile than you might think, which means you can wear your hair in all sorts of ways. Just remember...

What Hat Looks Good With a Peacoat?

When the mercury dips, keep your fashion factor in high gear with a coat that keeps you snug in style. The peacoat, with its clean lines and classic form, dresses up or down with effortless ease. Keep several hats on hand to turn your peacoat into...

The Best Straw Cowboy Hat

A cowboy hat is any Texas-bred girl's style staple, but if you're one of the many women who stick to the city or live on the coasts, you might not be used to seeing straw cowboy hats around and aren't sure which kind you should buy. This look is...

How to Trim a Braided Earflap Hat Edge

Braided earflap hats are adorable, quintessential winter knits that make a fine staple in the wardrobe of any dedicated snow bunny. Since they're knit, however, these hats are a bit tricky to trim if you don't want to unravel the whole thing into...

What to Do If Your Fitted Hat is Too Big

Fitted hats, including wool baseball caps, cowboy hats, fedoras and a variety of dressy hats, are often available in a limited range of sizes. If you have a fitted hat you love, you can adjust the size slightly to get a better, more secure fit....

When to Wear an Army Beret

Whether you've recently found a genuine Army beret at a thrift shop, or if you're looking to style an outfit around an Army-inspired beret, you have a ton of options. From fierce to soft and feminine, a variety of looks work well with this soft,...

Types of Hats With a Ruffled Brim

As any woman with a concern for the chic and stylish knows, accessories are the life and color of everyday fashion. From bags to boots, pretty hosiery to stunning jewels, without them an outfit lacks any sort of panache or personal touch. Although...

What Are Barmah Hats?

If you're not a native Aussie, you might never have heard of a Barmah hat. Think of crocodile hunters in the Outback, or the fedora style worn by Harrison Ford in the "Indiana Jones" movies. A Barmah hat is similar. The hat was...

What Outfit Looks Good With a Cloche?

The cloche hat is so irresistibly chic you feel like you should be on a runway as soon as you slip one on. If you've spotted this cute headgear at the store and just had to pick it up, you may be second-guessing yourself now that you're wondering...

What Detergent to Use for Washing a Hat

The right hat can propel an outfit from so-so to sizzling. Floppy, wide-brimmed straw hats add panache, baseball caps make you look girlishly perky and cloth, felt or leather caps give you an air of nonchalant sophistication. Unfortunately, even...

Care & Maintenance of Straw Cowboy Hats

If you’re ready to unleash your inner cowgirl, a straw cowboy hat is a must. These sexy, cute hats are perfect for a night out on the town or chillin’ at the beach on a sunny day. But all things beautiful must be properly cared for,...

How to Customize Your Own Cowboy Hat

The cowboy hat has been a fashion staple for many ladies working a sporty yet sexy style. This head accessory is full of fun and expressive potential, yet through your own customizing touch, it can become the star of the show. From basic additions...

Different Ways to Wear a Stocking Hat

The stocking hat is a great accessory for any fashionista to have and will help you play up your rocker, hipster or laid-back vibe. Not only does this accessory come in thousands of colors and patterns, but you can also change the way you wear one...

Easy Ways to Give a New Hat a Worn Look

Some things look best shiny and new, like your car, but a little bit of fashionable distressing to your favorite hat adds a totally fresh vintage twist to your look. You can buy distressed duds off the rack, but why pay for someone else to have...

How to Tell If a New Era Hat Is Fake

A New Era hat is the perfect hip-hop accessory for your hot new outfit. Shopping online to save money is smart, but buying counterfeit items is not! Don't let yourself get swindled by some knockoff retailer who is making money from ignorant...

How to Create a Cardboard Crown Hat

Making a cardboard crown is a fun project for adults and children alike. Whether you are creating the final touch for a costume, or simply want to be queen for a day, a cardboard crown is the way to go. The basic design of a crown is fairly basic...

How to Create a Crazy Hat

Whether you're on your way to the Kentucky Derby or you just feel like putting on a show, a crazy hat can give you a ready-made statement piece to wear any time. Use a plain hat as your base and amp it up with your own DIY style when you create a...

What Kind of Hat Should I Wear With a Cardigan?

While a cardigan is a common go-to piece for women for a wide variety of looks from bohemian-chic to polished prepster, this doesn't mean you have built-in knowledge regarding hat-wear. When you're donning a cardigan to combat chilly weather, it's...

Does a Brown Hat Go With a Black Jacket?

Brown and black look good together, bottom line. These neutrals complement each other and break up an otherwise boring, monochromatic look. Having a day where you're not feeling your best? Find yourself in a comfortable but dull all-black look? Go...

Hats to Wear to a Brunch

Brunch is the perfect occasion to wear a hat. Why? Because brunch is casual but still requires some style effort. Hats aren't worn enough by women seeking fashionista status. Feel free to rock out a hat on your way to meet up with your sweetie or...

History of Hat Pins

A hat pin was as crucial and stylish as a modern day cell phone between the 1880s and 1920s. Think of placing a wide-rimmed hat on top of your poofy pompadour in the early 1900s. Without the aid of a hat pin, chances are, the hat would fly off...

How to Customize a Brimmed Beanie Hat

When temps dip down into the frigid zone it's time to pull out that winter hat. One oh-so-popular cold weather chapeau is the brimmed beanie -- a wool or knit hat with a narrow, hard brim like a baseball cap. Typically a brimmed beanie will come...

How to Customize Winter Hats

No need to let a boring wool hat sit around when you can adapt the beanie to your personal taste and showcase your sewing smarts, fashionista enterprise and budgeting skills. Customizing accessories such as hats is a matter of mix and match and...

How to Clean a Flat Bill Hat

Do your rock your favorite flat bill hat so frequently that it has a bit of wear and tear? Washing a flat billed hat is simple; just be careful you don't change the shape or shrink your coveted cap. The trouble-free solution is to hand wash it.

How Do You Knit a Hat?

You got sucked into the knitting craze -- how could you not? Knitters are everywhere: subways, airports, pubs, meetings, in line at the DMV. Sometimes you see groups in the comfy chairs at Starbucks -- knitting, chatting, having fun. So you...

How to Fix a Hat Brim

Whether it's a felt fedora, a straw boater, or an oversized floppy, every season seems to bring along with it a new must-have hat. What's never in style, however, is a creased, bent or otherwise wonky brim. If you don't repair the flaw, your hat...

How to Care for a Panama Hat

A classic Panama hat, made from a special straw found only in Latin America, can add a funky or stylish flair to an outfit. When your taste runs to the eccentric, choose a Panama hat to top off your outfit. Because a Panama hat has tightly woven,...

How Do You Decorate Hat Boxes?

Hat boxes, once exclusively used to keep a girl's hat collection clean and dust free, are now a trendy and retro way to store all of your most favorite things. There are stores devoted to selling only hat boxes, seemingly in every size, color and...

What Kind of Hat Can I Wear With a Sweater Vest?

The sweater vest isn't exclusively for men or bookworms, ladies, though of course a book lover can pull of this look too. With myriad fashionable ways to wear a sweater vest, like over your dress, over a cute blouse and by its lonesome, you also...

How to Wash a Flexfit Hat

Whether you rock a Flexfit baseball cap on bad hair days or you play softball and wear your hat as part of the uniform, keeping your Flexfit cap clean is key. The company Flexfit makes sports caps using a high-tech fabric called poly-weave...

How to Clean an All-White New Era Hat

There's nothing crisper than an all-white New Era cap. Pair it with an all-white bikini, and you're beach- and street-ready all at the same time. The hat company New Era is known for its wide range of caps, both fitted and snap-back, and all-white...

When Can You Wear a Panama Hat?

Businessman Eloy Alfaro made his vast fortune by selling Panama hats to the masses. This hat, also simply referred to as the "Panama" by enthusiasts, was once used by field workers to guard their faces from the sun. It later became a trendy...

How to Wear a Bowler Hat

The round-brimmed black bowler hat has come a long way from its beginnings as a symbol of English gentlemen. Snapped up from thrift stores by prop-seeking performers, the bowler has been seen in any number of stage and film productions. Due to a...

How to Wear Gangster Hats

Gangster hats have an official name for their style; it's called a fedora. And it's a big fashion trend we can thank bootleggers of the 1930s for popularizing. Almost every young starlet has been snapped wearing a fedora, from Ashley Simpson and...

How to Wear an Outback Hat

It takes guts to rock an Outback hat, but with the right pieces you can turn your Aussie hat into part of a kicking "urban safari" style. The safari scene combines jazzy, loud patterns with classic neutrals for a look that's sure to get you...

How to Wear a Beanie Hat

For years, women have been throwing on their boyfriends' slouchy beanie hats to solve bad hair days. Fashion finally caught on, and now there are beanies in every color and texture imaginable made just for women. Beanies can be thick and woolly...

How to Decorate Ladies' Hats

Some hats are awesome on their own, but others need a bit of tweaking. You may not know that right off the bat, but if you're wearing your stlyin' hat and something seems to be missing, perhaps a few decorative touches are in order. It's not...

Do Pink Hats Go With Purple Dresses?

In preschool, you probably had a love affair with pink and purple. As you matured, however, your color combos probably did too. Now you've tried a daring black and red mix, a chic brown and tan scheme and maybe even a leopard-print item or two. In...

How to Wear a Stylish Hat

Hats often make the perfect accompaniment to most any outfit, but gals still seem to shy away from them. These dome-piece decorations are also suitable for just about any occasion, from a lazy day on the beach to a fabulous shopping trip. Besides...

What Is a Coolie Hat?

No fanatical hat collection is complete without the distinctive addition of the coolie hat. Coolie hats are known by many names including sedge hats, rice hats and paddy hats. No matter what you call them, the easily identifiable conical Asian...

How to Wear Berets

There's nothing like a beret to make you feel like sticking up your pinky and saying things like "ooh-la-la" and "c'est la vie." The quintessentially French hat of artistes and socialites alike is suited to almost any style. Whether you choose to...

Hot Hats

Hats are definitely top news this summer, with eager fashionistas brimming with excitement over straw fedoras with grosgrain ribbon bands, floppy straw beach lids and frivolous fascinator headpieces of the sort streaming from CNN during live...