I may be wrong, but I think that Garance (of the infamous Garance Dore blog) might just be turning into a vintage girl. I see more and more pops of vintage creeping into her blog and falling on her radar. Like this stunning photo posted this morning of Joana Nolasco Freitas in her chic little vintage Dior chapeau. I myself am going through a bit of a hat thing these days. There seems to be something right about the polished feel they give an outfit and their little nod to retro refinement.
Like red lipstick, hats are not something you can just do right out of the gate for most of us. Unless of course you are one of those women — that inevitable one girl we all know that can suddenly change her style on a whim and look like she has dressed that way forever. For the rest of us, hats are a deliberate forging into a brave new area of styling. Adding a hat into your everyday wardrobe, is for most girls, a new and dedicated pursuit in finding the right look so you don't feel like a complete twat every time you try it. It is one thing to see girls like Anna romping about and managing to looking fabulous with giant cherries on her head, but try to do that at home and you will almost be guaranteed to feel... . well like an idiot with giant cherries on her head.
If you do try to wear a hat after never having done so before, you will probably find yourself putting it on, taking it off, changing your outfit several times and at the end — giving up. It is because you are changing the very core of how you dress — the focus is now up, up, up and that is not how we dress these days. At some point though, wearing a hat becomes effortless. I have only been been told this mind you, I am not quite at effortless hat wearing yet myself, so take this all with a grain of salt please! But when I have managed to do it successfully I found that the only way to get tis to get up your courage, get dressed and ignore that irratating voice saying "is it OK?" "do I look silly?" "can I do this?"
Just grab that hat, bam it onto your head, slick on your lipstick and walk out the door with barely a glance at a mirror. Just do it, as Nike says.
photo: garance dore