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Choosing Your Hat
Choosing the right hat is all about balance, accentuating your best features, adding a splash of color and lifting your spirits. Choose a hat that is flattering on you and makes you feelspecial,beautiful, mysterious, playful, fun. Choose one that matches your lifestyle, wardrobe and body shape. For example, a tall slender woman would prefer a hat that has more width, rather than additional height, which would tend to make her appear taller.
A smaller face would be enhanced by a smaller angled, perched or cocktail hat, or a hat with a smaller overall proportion with respect to shape and brim size, rather than a large hat that might tend to drown your beautiful facial features. A wider face would be better with a more narrow brim, and a thin face with a larger brim. A round face will look be best complimented by a hat with a square shaped or asymmetrical brim , or one worn at an angle.

Choose colours that suit your complexion. If you are wearing a dark colour and want to brighten it up, you can enhance the hat / headpiece with tints of your accessory colour. Choosing a hat the same colour as your outfit is totally a personal choice, but do remember that a mix of colours can add interest to the overall look. When you are feeling that extra bit of confidence, bold contrast may work wonders. However if you are feeling only a little adventurous a subtle blend of colours may be just enough.

Please remember that there are no strict or formal rules to hat wearing. The important things are comfort, choosing a color that enhances your complexion or your outfit, adds something special to your splendid appearance, and one that allows you smile, laugh, exude an aura of confidence and have fun.

Your Face Shape

Everyone can wear a hat. You only need to become familiar with your face shape and understand basic rules. Use the template below to determine your face shape, and then read about what sort of hats suit you best and how to wear them.

Oval Face


Hat Advice:
  • Almost any hat can be worn.
  • Wear them straight across the brow or straight across your hairline as fashion or mood demands.
  • However, watch out that the crown is never narrower than your cheekbones. This is for all hat types.


    • Celebrities with OVAL shaped faces:
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Mariah Carey
  • Cindy Crawford
  • Jewel
  • Heather Locklear
  • Sharon Stone
  • Uma Thurman
  • Julia Roberts
  • Courtney Cox Arquette
  • Elle MacPherson
  • Tyra Banks
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    Round Face


    Hat Advice:
  • Avoid 'flower-pot' hats.
  • Brims should be worn on and angle, not straight.
  • Asymmetrical lines are very useful.
  • The crown of the hat must not be narrower than your face unless it is balanced by the trim.


    • Celebrities with ROUND shaped faces:
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • Roseanne Barr
  • Fairuza Balk
  • Kate Winslet
  • Natalie Merchant
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Christina Ricci
  • Charlotte Church
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    Square Face


    Hat Advice:
  • Slant the brim of your hats, or simply tilt your hat.
  • Wear hats with asymmetrical shapes.
  • Try wearing earrings when wearing hats.


    • Celebrities with SQUARE shaped faces:
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Holly Marie Combs
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Demi Moore
  • Isabella Rosellini
  • Helena Bonham Carter
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    Triangular Face


    Hat Advice:
  • The same rules apply to triangular faces as oval faces. Almost any hat can be worn.
  • Wear them straight across the brow or straight across your hairline as fashion or mood demands.
  • However, watch out that the crown is never narrower than your cheekbones. This is for all hat types.


    • Celebrities with TRIANGULAR shaped faces:
  • Sophia Loren
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Linda Evangelista
  • Kathy Ireland
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    Oblong Face


    Hat Advice:
  • Avoid narrow and tall hats.
  • Brims can be worn,do experiment.
  • Balance your shoulders and the rest of your body.


    • Celebrities with LONG shaped faces:
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Kirstie Alley
  • Janet Jackson
  • Gabrielle Reece
  • Niki Taylor
  • Stephanie Seymour
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