Fashionable hats: practical accessory - The second half of the twentieth century

Fashionable hats: practical accessory
The second half of the twentieth century
Trends Fall 2011
Autumn-Winter 2012-2013

Fashionable hats of the second half of the twentieth century

New look of the fifties

Immediately after the war Christian Dior creates the New Look: his suit Bar became a hit late forties. The suit was complemented by tight wide-brimmed hat.

Large forms do not go out of fashion, but the women are mostly small caps, which are decorated with feathers, veil and cover only the crown.

The fifties - the period when it was possible to wear both small and large models. As a premium designers were berets, which could become very tiny and flat. Also in vogue round hat without borders.

Coolie hat (large dome), entered the house of Balenciaga, had a great influence in fashion and often copied as can be made of straw. To give the image of chic hat decorated with light fabric, with the help of which is attached to the neck. This hat was perfect accessory for protection against the sun.

Golden Sixties

Fashionable hats of the second half of the twentieth century In the sixties takes the reins Beret - a symbol of French charm unisex trend. Young wearing a cap in the style of Beatles, a standard cap. Caps artificial colors perfectly match the spirit of the brightest and most "plastic" of the sixties.

More classic versions for women - small round hat without borders, such as model-tablets, which have been styled with a light hand of Jacqueline Kennedy. At the same time, young women are beginning to just abandon the hats, which continue to mature ladies to wear. The young of the fair sex are beginning to use new eagerly newly acquired freedoms.

On the other hand, designers are starting to create fashion that can not be interested in women. Andre Kurrezha creates a straw hat in geometric forms, while Pierre Cardin offers a futuristic style and creates a cap rounded form.

The return to the past in the seventies

Fashionable hats of the second half of the twentieth century In the seventies hippies Hippie style: create your own world They wear their hats to symbolize their rejection of social and cultural values of the consumer society. Suddenly, the fashion is retro: back cap with no margins of the twenty-bent field, popular in the thirties, broad fields that were in the forties.

Women began to wear knitted caps, berets, felt hats decorated with flowers, romantic hats, straw pattern with leaves, flowers, offering a return to nature, symbolizing antimaterialistichnuyu position. As part of the emerging ethnic movement that welcomes patchwork designs on hats and berets embroidered appears, which contains not only the standard thread and sequins, sequins.

The variety and the courage of the eighties

Fashionable hats of the second half of the twentieth century In the UK, Princess Diana helps styled models more solemn hats. At the same time all over the world comes to fashion caps, fedoras or suede beret.

Maitre original fashion French designer Jacques Pentyure, many in partnership with private clients, who bought his hats crazy design and volume that previously could be compared only to that of hats Headgear: the variety of fashion accessories noble ladies of the eighteenth century.

Nineties - the revival of art hatter

In the last decade of the twentieth century hats continue to fulfill its primary function - protection against heat or cold.

Still, at the same time they become striking element of decoration.

Designers are free from the old clichés start to create the original model, which for those who are wearing them, are not just a useful accessory, but also an element of self-expression.