Forming Hat Attachments

Half the fun of choosing and wearing a hat is in playing around with it and getting it 'just so'. When you buy a hat on a headband you're stuck with one way to wear it. How you wear it has been prescribed by the designer. I'm sure Lily Dache (pictured to the right) would not have approved!

Few women are confident around hats nowadays. To pick up a hat and try it this way and that. To take it home and add a brooch, a found pheasant feather and a swathe of veiling for a special occasion, or wear it plain and backwards when the fancy takes.

There are a lot of reasons for this. Most of us grew up never seeing the women in our families wearing hats. Go into a department store and the hat area is devoid of staff. There's no-one around to encourage people to just try hats on!

A lot of women are drawn to hats and fascinators but if it doesn't fit over their head they don't have the confidence to know how to wear it (answer: any damn way you like ;). And I can see that the hat on a band is going to encourage people to step outside the previous comfort zone and wear something bigger than a feathered comb and more exciting than a sinamay 'wedding hat' because they know they can't get it 'wrong'.

And that's a good thing, isn't it? Then why do I have a picture of one of these in my head?
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