How come ?

I can do nice scarves now - followed some YouTube videos. This is still my favourite

25 ways to wear a scarf - in 4.5 minutes

Mesmerising.

You know, I don't care! I wear woolly hats all winter, as I feel the cold badly, and have trouble with my ears, so it's a must for me. My dog loves them, he has eaten two ! I get mine at a Dobbies s garden centre for seven pounds, felt lined crochet things which have a brim, otherwise I'm like a pea on a boiler with a wee head and big body. My hat hair just gets spiked up after wards by my fingers., too bad if it's not a good look, it's warm.

Hoods.....most of my jackets have them so it's there if I need something warm. I love hats as well, my face shape really suits big hats but I end up looking like a small mushroom when seen full length. Being short I also tend to take people's eyes out with the brim.

I wear a saggy beret-style hat in winter as I get dreadful ear-ache when I'm out in the cold. I've seen some lovely hats and women looking great in them but they all look ridiculous on me. As long as my ears are warm I'm happy and just don't bother looking in the mirror! In the summer I wear a panama hat at times, to keep the sun off the back of my neck. My hair always looks as though I've been wearing a pudding bowl when I take my hat off, so once it's on it has to stay on till I'm home again

I love scarves too so am off to have a look at WilmaKnickerfit's link

Greyduster, you look great, dont let the bugger get you down. I have just worn a new hat this morning to go to the shop, i teamed it with my waterproof men's jacket and wellies i looked stunning, well i would have if i was playing a baglady ! bloody hat blew off and i had to chase it down the road, at least it gave the village a laugh

I do wear hats sometimes, for warmth in the winter or a sunhat when it's hot, but they don't suit me

The last time I wore a posh hat to a wedding someone told me I looked like the Queen Mother 'in that hat'. As I was 50ish and she was about 100 at the time i didn't think it was a compliment!

I like scarves but am not good with them, so will look at wilma's link.

Annie I am sure you can never look like Benny Hill, I'm sure you said you're tall and slim!!
Ps I have a beret, must examine myself from all angles before I venture out
Or just get rid of the hall mirror.

So glad to see other ladies saying that they don't suit hats. I despair of finding one that doesn't reduce my daughter and now grandkiddies to fits of laughter.

I used to work with an older lady, who wore a wig as a hat, hung it up on the coat hooks at work during the day and her hair seemed ok underneath it. She hit upon the idea when she decided that n hats styles suited her but she wanted to be warmer.

I look like a table lamp in hats............

I borrowed my sister's beautiful long coat to wear to a wedding, she's about 2 inches taller than me, in the photo's I looked Grotbags from the Pink Windmill!

Pollyperkins, your H must be very witty
I bought a hat at the market and I thought I looked quite sophisticated in it until I got home and looked in the mirror! To think I'd walked about in public looking like that.

Great link wilma!

Now, if I wear my scarf as demonstrated, will I look like the model in the video?

Oh, was that a no?

Zorro I bought the fish at Morrisons before we went and stuck it in the bottom of my bag just for the photo. . Am I joking? I couldn't possibly comment!

Jalima sadly I don't look like her either! Actually, if you follow the other videos on the YouTube page, she shows you what size and shape of scarf works best for certain looks. That helped me quite a bit.

Greyduster

i'm new to posting but have been reading for quite some time.thankyou all who posted you have given me such a laugh with this topic ....really cheered my day....I can't wear hats ....look horrendous in every type so have given up trying

I once went to a wedding, took my hat off in the cloakroom, saw terrible hat hair! Stuck head under tap and dried it under hand dryer! Worked a treat. Can't do it with those Dyson ones you put your hands in though!Sounds like there is a a niche in the market for a hat hair remedy kit.

I look horrendous in hats. My daughter on the other hand always looks lovely in any hat she wears, and we are always being told that we look alike so how come she looks so good and I don't??
I was watching Joanna Lumley's documentary about her visit to China and she was wearing a gorgeous black hat and looked so chic. I would look like a bag lady if I wore it.
What IS the secret of hat-wearing?

I wish I'd watched that video before I spent ages on Monday agonising about whether to wear a scarf when I went out on Tuesday. I tried all sorts of ways to get. It to look right. Then I thought " who the heck is going to be taking any notice anyway" and just gave in and wound it loosely round my neck.

In the 90s I wore a lovely expensive chocolate brown velvet hat - it was floppy but structured, with a brim and perfect with my long winter coat and boots.

In today's parlance I was channeling a 'Diane Keaton in New York' look.

A male colleague said I looked like Paddington Bear!

bastard

What a relief - thought I was the only one who could not wear a hat and a ) look good and b) feel comfortable. I am with Tudorrose: wearing specs seems to preclude the attractive wearing of a hat and , on the odd occasion in winter when I have tried, after a short while the hat presses into the spectacle arm and is most uncomfortable. Hoods on coats/ anoraks are impossible - either blow off or come so far forward feel like a blinkered horse.
Did manage a large hat for my wedding and that of my grandson by wearing one contact lens - that way only ended up with one sore eye and could see relatively clearly.

Starting to "get there" with scarves as living in France I have excellent models as the ladies around here wear scarves with such elegance and panache .

Jalima, I am tall and skinny so not the same shape as Benny Hill but just as silly in the pull on hat , didn't help I bought a grey one so difficult to see where hat ends and hair shows. Anyway I look a wally I assure you.

This says it all about looking horrid in hats!

That's the worst thing. You think you look good and have finally cracked it - then someone bursts your bubble and you never wear it again. On the few occasions that I have worn a hat (Ascot), the carefully chosen hat got precisely one wear.

Perhaps the secret is to never look in the mirror or at photos? Ignorance is bliss?

Mind you, I have many happy memories of me and my Mum trying on hats in BHS and killing ourselves laughing!

wot Don't tell me - a dog walking hat?

Nice fish... Greyduster!