What Can I Say About Hats

Over the years I've worn many hats. For sun and for snow. For fun and for fashion. From wide brim and vintage buckets, to fascinators, beanies and fedoras, yet my new favorite might surprise you.

I used to wear big brim hats with giant bows to high-school hockey games when I was young, and tie ribbon as laces on my shoes. Even as an adult, my hats went to hockey games.

Frankly, I went through a very long season of adoring the style a hat lends, and can't understand why more people don't wear hats. Hats are great, and no one ever says, "hey, I hate your hat";) I've worn some unusually stylish hats, and have always received compliments. I have even heard some profess a desire for the courage to wear the same. Courage. I guess that was just a playful part of the rebel in me.

I'm not suggesting you wear a hat all the time, but getting a good hat out fairly often should be a thing! Especially if it can be helpful in the environment where you live. It's just civilized and can be fun!

Hat's have been a thing, a steady part ofwho I am when I pull myself together, yet they have also come and gone in my life. A basement flood in my earlier years destroyed the majority of a sizable number that I had collected. It ia something I have yet to repair– andsince, Itend to wear them less, and have had fewer nice hats. In my opinion, a nicer hat makes a difference, especially when you require custom sizing like I often do.

One of my more rememberable hats was from Harrods, and was a glorious sun hat, a golden creamy loose weave straw hat with a huge brim. Perfectly placed on the brim was an airy and light sculptural piece that had a life of its own. It had large ribbon twists made from the same hat weave. The twists were tossed and placed about the brim in a sprawling heap-like fettuccini. It was simple in a spectacular way.

Though I'm a sucker for a beautiful wide brim hat, I might have to really consider passing all praise to the great fascinators out there. The fun insinuated is that when wearing one you are most likely out for the evening, dazzling and having an enjoyable time. I'm not sure how a fascinator can ever be unsophisticated or dull. Well, perhaps I've seen a dull one or two.

I have indeed enjoyed a fair number of fascinators, and long for the next opportunity to dig one out, but alas I have a new favorite hat! Nope, it's not a straw cowboy hat or white panamafedora with a yellow feather (love that one), it's my new baseball cap! I know, it's amazing, right? Not boring at all! 

The Uncommon Cap, is not your ordinary baseball cap. It has a perfect classic shape with a really nice smooth and hardy hand. It's quality made. I have a petite head and I wear this hat in the size S/M. It is too large on me at it's smallest, however, it is easily corrected for those who have a petite head like me! See that below*.

My favorite so far is this Floral Spray pattern on silk satin. It's got a sheen that just makes me so happy to be wearing it. I don't think you can be cranky and wear this hat, really. It's just not for cranky people. It is vibrant, in a really beautiful way. That's how I feel about this particular pattern, a beautiful twist to a classic cap. Perhaps an usual new favorite given my past history with hats, but this has been a fun season of embracing many things anew.

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*All The Uncommon Caps are available in a s/m or l/xl. For those like myself who haec a petite sized head and find the s/m a bit too roomy, these are super easy to adjust for a better fit. Here's how I accomplished this. Pull the velcro tab on the back, adjusting to your desired fit, then fold the tab under and lay down on back of hat. Use several stitches to secure the tab to the hat. That's it. Your hat will be a smaller fit and no excess tab needed to be cut. The stitches can be let out anytime to readjust back to its natural s/m size.