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How to wear a floppy wide brim hat and not look like a pimp

Statement making BoHo wide brim hats have continued to be a major fashionista statement this season. It's a fashion trend that's just as tricky to pull off as the other biggie, faux fur vests, and can have as many, if not more, catastrophic style results. Not worn the right way, what is meant to look dramatic and chic ends up looking like the wearer is channeling a 70's gangster pimp character. Just look at KK and --albeit a favorite movie score-- force yourself not to hum a tune from Superfly. Ranging from wide brim, gaucho to BoHo floppy with portrait shape thrown in for good measure, there are a few basic style guidelines to consider when trying to pull off a wide brim hat

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Milliner Extraordinaire Stephen Jones on Exhibit in the Hat Capitol of the World…

A bonnet by any other name never looked so chic… Get your hat inspiration here: Easter is the season of the hat, which makes it the perfect time to pay a visit to legendary London milliner, Stephen Jones' ~Hats: An Anthology' exhibition showing at the Victoria & Albert Museum. As a celebration of the life cycle of the hat, the exhibition is categorised into areas of inspiration, creation, the client and the salon, exploring the process of how a hat is realised from it's point of inception to the wearer's head. Exhibiting a vast collection of elegant, experimental and whimsical hats ranging from those designed by Stephen Jones' for designers such as John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Jean

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Hattitude! Aretha Franklin, style…

Please don't go too mainstream with that Aretha Franklin inauguration hat Aretha Franklin Inauguration Hat | Hattitude. Please don't go too mainstream with that Aretha Franklin hat You know that hat. It's the hat that won't go away. The grey one with the oversized bow that sung out louder than its wearer at the inauguration. Well, it seems that the Aretha Franklin Inauguration hat has continued to take on a life of its own. The hat in question neither shocked or amazed me with in either its beauty or its showiness. I'm quite familiar with rather flamboyant handmade "Church Lady" hats worn with pride and gusto as the niece of an old time milliner. The New York Times once described

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