How come ?

I thought you looked like a different actress, Stephanie Cole - she played a doctor in Tenko, and later an eccentric aunt to Martin Clunes in Doc Martin.

I am with Anniebach on this one, I do the same but also avoid looking in the mirror!

DH says I look like the village idiot in a hat.

I have a small round face, and probably a head to match. I would love to wear a hat, and those lovely floaty scarves, but I just look silly.

Wilma what is it with these men??

I think it's the hair that makes a difference. Long hair with a long fringe means some hair will usually show to soften the face when you wear a hat. (Leaving aside the fact that a pretty, youthful face looks good in anything or nothing!) I have short hair so I just don't look in the mirror if I'm going out with my dog in the winter. It's much more comfortable to keep your head warm. You can give post-hat hair a quick blast with the hairdryer on hot then cold if your dryer has those settings. Bend over so your head's upside down and blast away. That will usually perk things up.

Hats sizing so sexist! Can anyone explain why men's hats come in a plethora of different sizes while women's generally come in take it or leave it?

i wear a black fedora in the winter when it's raining. as i walk with a stick i can't manage stick, handbag and umbrella so the fedora keeps my hair dry. it's got a lovely biggish brim which is just right.
in the summer i wear a "cowboy" type hat which i found in asda a couple of years ago - big enough brim to keep the sun out of my eyes as prescribed by the optician.
other than these i don't wear hats as i don't suit them - although i still have three wedding hats in my wardrobe plus a fascinator.

I wear a hat in the winter, I look like I've escaped from somewhere and don't care. My hair is so fine and slippery I usually end up looking like I've got a large knob on my head where the hat slides up. No type of hat suits me, my mother and I used to go into Debenhams and try on ladies posh hats and giggle hysterically, I was 17 she was 45 at the time, lord I used to have so much fun with my mum!

Why is it that the beautiful Audrey Hepburn can whizz round in a lovely red sports wearing a silk head scarf with such panache.
and I on the other hand could with an elegantly tied silk scarf climb into wishful thinking a beautiful Morgan and look like I'm only missing Hilda's curlers!

I love hats and am always happy to wear one, but like DanniRae I cannot make a scarf look elegant on me. My two closest friends wear all sorts of scarves wonderfully well, but try as I might I just can't get the 'drape' to look as easy and natural as they can - I've even followed tutorials on youtube without any noticeable improvement.

Me too granny activist, when I wear a scarf round my neck, people ask if I've got a stiff neck, !!!!

Greyduster I know! I would never say anything like that to him! I would just tell him he looks ridiculous and to put the hat down. He has a Compo hat he wears in the garden when it's cold, but I wouldn't let him go out wearing it!

Oh, I suit hats - the huge, flowery, feathery ones one could wear to a Downtown Abbey wedding. I reckon it's because I have a big head. Seeing as I've never had occasion to wear one, it's no great advantage.

Anything else looks like a pea on a drum.

Hats make me look like a mushroom, but I do wear a woolly thing in winter - comfort has always come first for me. As for scarves, my MIL can do the dashing thing, flinging any kind of scarf around her neck and it stays there in perfect harmony. I have two modes, falling off or strangling me!

I like the idea of fluffy earmuffs wot but at 68 I fear I am a little old for them?? I only wear a woolly hat if it's really cold and then I don't care what I look like. I do like myself in fascinators - but I'd look a bit daft wearing one to Sainsburys!

I have so many hats, trilby, bucket, tilley, baseball, beany, but my favorite is my black fedora. My next acquisition will probably be a deerstalker.

I like to wear hats in the summer when I am walking the dogs as it gets so hot and bright. But imagine the humiliation, my hair is very short and fine and my head is small 56cm and I have to wear childrens sun hats. Good thing I am not the sensitive sort.

I like hats but they do not go with glasses! Too "busy" looking. I wore contact lenses at both my children's weddings and wore lovely hats which looked fine. I am very happy with all the photos

The only hat I can wear is the baker boy style with a peak,anything else looks ridiculous,especially the close fitting beanie type.I do have long,curly hair but even though this peeks out to soften the edges,they just don't suit me.I love scarves and have lots which I wear in different ways-they can really add to an outfit.

Depends on the hat and the glasses. Mine have a very unobtrusive titanium rim which works with hats with a turned-up brim, I have a lovely purple 'wedding' hat that looked great even with glasses.

Greyduster - I think you look just the part - very "country, hunting, shooting, fishing set". That fish is a whopper too !!

Incidentally, those people who think they don't look elegant in long scarves - have you ever tried a snood - they're fantastic and so warm in Winter.

I've decided I've come to the age that I don't care what others think about what I wear if I like a hat scarf etc if I want to wear it I will....??