Women's fashion has borrowed from men a lot of outfits, among which you can distinguish: jackets, jeans, vests, baseball caps and boots . The felt hat did not escape this fate. On an elegant female head, they look particularly stylish and spicy, giving the appearance freedom.
When tailoring products manufacturers use felt, which is the main material for the production of hats. Felt is obtained by felting different types of wool. For quality hats, rabbit or sheep wool, as well as exotic materials, for example, New Zealand deer wool, are used. Felt hats have a lot of advantages in comparison with synthetic and cotton products:
- keep the shape well;
- soft to the touch;
- relatively inexpensive;
- have high warming and air-permeability abilities.
It should be noted that the production of hats from felt is worth a lot of effort, because to make a hat, you need to perform more than 60 operations! However, this does not greatly affect the price, and the hats are affordable for almost every fashionista.
History of things: a hat made of felt
An elegant hat for several hundred years adorns the heads of the girls of the New World and Europe. Historians of fashion consider her homeland the German city of Hamburg, and King Edward VII - the first person who popularized wearing hats from felt. At that time, all the headgear was made by hand and by the piece. With the development of industry, the hat was put on the conveyor, since men no longer thought without them life. The feminization of the female society allowed the girls to wear this primordially male headdress, and now female felt hats have become as familiar as trouser suits and unisex style shoes.
Traditionally, a felt hat consists of fields and crowns and is decorated with a special band around the perimeter. This is a self-contained element of style, so the colors of the hats have muted quiet colors. The most common colors are dark gray, green, brown, dark blue, burgundy, beige. A black felt hat, which can be decorated with a colored ribbon or a more active texture, is considered a universal.
Models of female felt hats
The whole variety of felt hats is divided into two main groups:
- Hard options. Characterized by a rigid design and inability to change the shape. The hat should be chosen strictly in size, otherwise it will create inconvenience when worn.
- Soft options. Made of soft felt, can take a variety of shapes. You can bend the margins or make a dent in the magazine.
Women's hats absorbed the male's tendencies and broke out so many styles and patterns that enumeration of all of them is very difficult. Here are just a few options for women's felt hats:
- Klosh - a rounded hat, the crown of which gently passes into the outward curved fields.
- Slouch - a hat with small soft fields and a crown pot. This model became known thanks to the famous actress Grete Garbo.
- Bolero - felt hat with a flat top and bent up fields.
- Current - a hat with a rigid skeleton without borders. Designed for wearing with a veil. It is decorated with pearls, feathers and brooches.
- Dora - the most famous and beloved fashionista hat. Represents a bowler with sloping soft margins.
- A wheel is a felt hat with wide margins. It was popular in the 1915's and 1950's. Excellent protection from the sun and gives an image of femininity.
- Felt cowboy hat is a headdress that has a high rounded crown and wide bent fields. Popular in American culture, the attribute of cowboys and country performers.
Choosing a certain style of a hat, you can change your style, focus on the face or hair, or vice versa, divert attention from problem areas. Those girls who do not know what to wear a felt hat, should start with Dora, or as it is called "Fedor". This accessory is perfectly combined with an autumn coat and trousers. The obligatory condition - things must be concise and strict. A more relaxed and romantic image creates a wide-brimmed felt hat. She gives a bohemian look and sets a high bar for the woman's style.
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