I have a wide rounded face with large weighty cheeks, and when autumn and winter come, its volumes become even more noticeable to others. In winter, you can wear outerwear with a hood (I always wore a down jacket or a sheepskin coat), but in the intermediate period between a hatless autumn and a frosty winter, you also need to cover your head with something. The hat removes the bangs and everything that was hidden creeps out treacherously for show. For many years I chose from two evils: to become Kolobok or to freeze my ears.
"Put on your hat!"
The image of young people who “in style, chill and relax” wear a hoodie (hoodie) under a leather jacket did not inspire me at all. Let's leave these fussy fashion experiments to the young and relaxed. The elderly and anxious need a minimalist classic.
All my life I could not find a hat! To be completely honest, I hated hats all my life. It seemed to me that the hat was for rosy-cheeked children and skiers. Also rosy. But I wore them. As mothers tell us to wear a hat in childhood, so obedient children then go with the flow. And to be even more frank, I wore my rare and last hat for more than 10 years, because I couldn’t find anything better for my face.
The problem is that thin knitted hats on a plump, cheeky face look comical, while thicker ones with a voluminous lapel expand the face. You can’t buy a hat in an online store without trying it on, because often when you try it on you realize that they are too small.
Elegant Marusya
And I also have a problem with residents of small provincial towns, many of whom are hopelessly stuck in the scarcely elegant 90s or the desperately glamorous 2000s. I stopped shopping for hats after one of my visits a couple of years ago.
I go to the hat rows, all models are either with creepy artificial pom-poms, reminiscent of mangy tails plush rabbits, or with pretty patterns or inscriptions, tightly carved with rhinestones or sequins.
- Don't you just have hats without everything? I asked carefully
- Deeeeevushka, it's ugly! Almost no one buys these from us, we stopped ordering ...
In the 90s, if anyone remembers, hoods came into fashion. I was in school then. I had two hoods, and what a joy it was then to wear them! Once they were in the wash, and I put on a regular replacement scarf. A beautiful girl came to school, and they teased me. "Collective farmer", "Marusya", "grandmother", "woman for a teapot" and so on. I took off my scarf and didn't wear it again. This is probably how this stupid complex was formed for life.
Wear in Russian
But how did a scarf suit me under my Russian folk cheeky face! Closes the cheeks, covers the chin, no scarf needed! Hat and scarf in one! I have always admired the photos of fashionable looks in the style of à la russe, which appeared on the catwalk or in photo shoots. And girls in headscarves always looked stylish and without a touch of provincial chic, which shows through in the images of typical Russian beauties.
In recent years, I have been inspired by images of women in headscarves from old movies. They were in fashion in the 50s and 60s, they were worn by Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Catherine Deneuve and a host of other movie beauties. And this fall, for the first time, I began to constantly wear a headscarf. And how happy I am! Big step for me, small step for humanity.
Girls and women, wear what you like. Fashion goes away, but your cheeks, nose and hair are always with you. Adapt your style to them and your inner feelings of "good and bad" and not to fashion trends. After all, their goal is simply to persuade us every year to buy a new hat, hat, cap, without which there is no life. And there is life without them. And the sooner it starts, the better.
Headless author: Marina Sidorina
