Hats

Hats everyone should have them: summer hats, winter hats, sports hats, evening hats, hats to wear at the horse racing.
Hats started out being made of animal skin and fur and then progressed to straw and metal. Popular modern hats are made out of cotton and it has been said that people only wear hats out of necessity and for reasons of fashion.
Your hat can be a fashion accessory that you see in the summer time or it could be keeping you warm in the winter. You can buy hats online there are hats for sport, baseball caps, horse ridding hats, golfing hats to name a few.
Hats in the warmer weather are designed to keep your head cool. Summer hats are very popular and can include sport caps like baseball, also bucket hats and beanie hats. If you are out in the sun, don’t get burnt on your face and head cover up.
We have looked at Joules Hats from their online clothing site they have a great range of beautiful summer hats in every colour and size to fit your head.

Things you should know about Hats
• "Mad as a Hatter" isn’t from Alice in Wonderland although at times we all mad people with hats on, its an old term from when hats used mercury to bind felt fibres. After a period in time the mercury would drive the person wearing a hat mad.
• Straw hats have been traced back to 1529 to the word "milliner".
• You need a hat to keep warm as you lose at least 20% of your body heat from your head; more or less depending upon your hair style and thickness...for example bald men lose the most heat.
• Everyone should know that your Panama hat is actually a hat from Equador. These hats were named “Panama” as workers on the Panama Canal wore them. The Americans that named them thought the workers were wearing local hats.
• Since 1985 hat sales have increased by 15% a year, it was in the mid 80's that the baseball hat came into fashion and its never gone away since. What does yours say?

Famous People that Wear Hats
Joan Collins in her Dynasty days was always seen with huge hats on her head as did Linda Evans.
Ryan Giggs is always seen out and about in a sporty baseball cap.
Mrs Thatcher as well as being famous for being Britain’s first woman prime minster was also seen wearing a blue hat on state business.
The Queen is hardly ever seen in public these days without a hat on her royal head, hats off to the queen.

Old hat days
In the old days brims on hats were bound with ribbon for the reason to stop them fraying at the edges.
Yankee doodle stuck a feather in his cap because when men went off to flight it was customary for men to wear a feather in their hat representing love from their woman.
Cowboys look cool in their hats; they were designed to keeping their heads cool in the hot sun and were traditionally made out of leather. Today they are seen as fashion hats and are worn mainly by women.

Hats are mainly fashionable items these days. Man’s suit with a top hat was formerly an indispensable piece of the suit and most women have more than one summer hat.

Women's hats have a fantastic number of styles, shapes and ranges from classic formal wear to immense catwalk collections and now the high street shops make hats available to the masses in all shapes, sizes and colours.