Chapeau Season

I love hats! I wear hats quite often. Perhaps it is one of those things that help to up my 'strange' factor. Not that I find it at all strange to wear hats, because it really isn't. But I dare say that 'hat wearers' are in the minority in this day and age. Especially women who wear hats. I mean, yes, perhaps a fair amount of guys wear baseball caps, but I'm referring to women and men who opt to wear a variety of hats with more style and flair. Think Mick Jagger and Johnny Depp in the man department....yummy! I mean if men had any clue just how sexy Johnny Depp is to women in his multitude of hats....they'd bee-line it down to the nearest chapeau store to buy one of their own.

And of course that crazy Lady Ga Ga wears hats, as well as other assorted kitchen appliances and faux animals on her noggin all the time. Although she's not the greatest example for women. But women are beautiful in hats! Yet I don't see a whole lot of women sporting them very often. I don't know why though. I love women and men in hats. I love to photograph women in hats. My husband loves it when I wear hats. And I am constantly on the mission to single handedly start a hat resurgence here in the states.

Of course Halloween is the one time of the year when hats are de rigueur. Sure.....every Tom, Dick and Jane suddenly wants to wear a hat of some sorts with their costumes on Halloween. But I'm talking about wearing hats year round. Remember when people really knew how to dress? Neither men nor women went out of the house without a hat on their head. Style meant something back then. {sigh} Anyhoo...I thought I'd post a few pics of hats that are perfect Autumn/Halloween Hats for those crisp days and cool nights ahead. Some admittedly will take more courage and chutzpah to wear than others, but they're perfectly suited for the upcoming season. Spiders, Bats, Skeletons,Tophats and Crochet....these are Halloween Hats that can be worn anytime. (Well, perhaps the skeletons would be stretching it a bit.)

I must confess my adoration for the tophat, but it is one hat that I don't really find myself wearing. I'm 5-9" and can reach 6 feet in heels, so imagine how tall I'd be in a top hat AND heels...I think that's overkill. But I do strongly encourage others to wear them because I really dig their style. I'm more of a newsboy, slouchy hat kind of girl myself. Like this purple one shown here...that's what I like to wear. What about you guys....do any of you wear hats with any regularity? And if so, what kinds of hats do you wear? Do you ever notice other people wearing them much in your parts of the world? I'd really like to know, because if there is a place where it is en vogue to wear hats....I'm moving there!

Oh, and one quick warning....the photo below is to illustrate how NOT to wear your hat, or your clothes for that matter. Unless you are the Mad Hatter himself, this look will do nothing but cause my hat movement to go down in flames, so please refrain. :o)