This summer I’m off to New York for some holidays (but I’ve already told you that in a past post I think…yep, I’m excited). So, I thought I’d tell you folks about the pork pie hat, which for me is a symbolic american hat - though well, it’s not really american (I’m making sense, right?).  [...]

Well, apparently the good old boater hat is back in fashion! I haven’t really seen anybody wearing one (the trilby is still going strong), but I’ve seen them for sale like everywhere (Asos, Zara…).  The boater ( ‘canotier’ in french) first appeared in the late 19th century and is traditionaly made out of straw. From [...]

I got this card in the post the other day, ‘Mad hats of the 18th century’. I particulary like the one with the big pink bows (3rd from the left, top line). I just love the fact that they are so huge!
J’ai reçu cette carte l’autre jour dans mon courrier, ‘Les chapeaux fous au XVIII siècle’. [...]

I was just doing some final touching up on my pink straw hat (I posted about it recently) and I  realised what it has been making me think of! Flamenco dancers with all their ruffles, bright colors and cordoban hats! Cordoban hats really are symbolic of Spain, it’s worn for bullfighting and flemenco performers, aswell as for [...]

My parents recently went to Malaysia and they brought me back a hat! It’s a traditional malay hat called a songkok (also called a peci and a kopiah in other asian countries). It is mostly worn by muslim men but hey, it looks good on me too! Normally it sits a bit lower on the [...]

As everybody probably already knows the great fashion designer Alexander McQueen has left us so I decided to post some pics of  headwear from various of his ready-to-wear shows. McQueen often collaborated with Philip Treacy, the irish hat maker.  Treacy works a lot for fashion designers and celebrities aswell as creating his own collections. It was [...]

Seeing that my last post was about my mini top hat and that I do have a rather soft spot for toppers (I scour ebay regulary for a good one but to no success), so I thought it would be good to do a quick post about them.
Top hats first appeared in the second half of the [...]

Tomorrow I’m off to the region of Normandy (North-Western France), Lower Normandy to be more precise, a rural area known for it’s dairy produce, apples and horses. I thought it’d be interesting to show some pictures of traditional norman headwear. Of course, such headwear was only worn for special occasions, simple bonnets were worn for day [...]

I’m off for a weeks holiday in Italy so I thought I’d talk about one of it’s most famous hats, the borsalino. To begin with Borsalino is the name of the hat company (founded in 1834 by Giuseppe Borsalino), which developped this particular felt hat in 1837.  The hat is made out of rabbit or hare felt (which [...]