Modern cowboy hat shapes made a strange appearance in an unexpected place: the dream-soaked streets of La La Land. A phalanx of models and iconic modern celebrities including Macaulay Culkin and Jared Leto strolled down Hollywood Boulevard. They wore beautiful strange rodeo wear, remixed with black and neutral color modern cowboy hats with traditional wide,…
More →I was recently scrolling through fashion pictures looking for some new season inspiration when something stopped me. I froze, mid-scroll. Rachel Lindsay and her tan boater hat with contrasting brim trim color outlining her chapeau. The author, podcaster, Extra correspondent, and forever the best lead to ever come out of The Bachelorette was attending a…
More →We’ve been playing it safe for almost two years now in every aspect of life. For months, fashion had been reduced to nothing more than matching sweat suits and above the waist dressing (in case of Zoom meeting). No stylish men’s felt hats have been worn during all those long, couch-bound quarantine days doing puzzles…
More →After a lifetime of reporting on fashion, I’ve seen hundreds upon hundreds of trends. It happens each fashion week, season after season, as a phalanx of long-legged supermodels parade across catwalks. New promises from designers and magazine editors are made. They swear that this one style or this one color (“puce is the new black!”)…
More →To describe a straw boater hat, you have to embrace what it isn’t. It’s a fedora, but not quite. Its brim is trimmer and tighter than a fedora. It’s a bowler hat, but not quite. A boater hat doesn’t have that pleasantly domed top and, instead, traditionally features a folded or flat, smooth top. That…
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