15 Great and Fun Reasons for Ladies to Wear a Hat

15 Great And Fun Reasons Why Ladies Should Definitely Wear More Hats

Hats aren't just for bad hair days or to cover unsightly grey roots (although they are excellent for those). Nothing elevates an outfit quite like the right hat.Okay, so you're one of those people who thinks, "Nooooo, I can't pull off hats, they don't look good on me." Think again because you're wrong.
Hats are not just for weddings and derbies.

They are just the sexiest and most fun accessory.

Wearing hats with everything all the time is always a good idea!

1. And more updated beanie styles are surprisingly feminine-looking with long hair...

Want to transform yourself into a gamine princess in one step? Pull a beanie on and go break at least 12 hearts while you walk to catch the bus.

The problem is, when you think of hats, you're picturing this...hat monstrosity 

...Instead of something more like this.

There are a million ways to properly pull off a hat without looking like you're playing dress-up or going to church. Let's have a look.

2. A wide-brimmed straw hat looks amazing at the beach or just walking around the city on the weekend.

Bonus: Tightly woven big brimmed hats give you extra protection UPF50 from the sun! You should probably skip the fake pearls, though — that'd be one weird tan line.

Large brimmed hats are perfect for hiding from the Paparazzi.

or for a spontaneous DIVA facebook sharing moment.

3. And hats made with winter felt weight materials, dress up ladylike looks even more.

Admit it, if you saw this girl on the way to work, you'd be like, "I'm buying a fedora hat right this very minute, I don't care if I miss the fucking morning meeting."

4. Basic skullies go with EVERYTHING.

You know those cotton ones that you can buy everywhere for less then the price of a latte? Get them in a few colors and make your whole casual wardrobe so much cuter.

5. ...but short-haired girls look especially amazing in them, too.

I feel like these are the kinds of women that dudes write melancholy love songs about. So if you want to be a muse, just own this hat and let your hair peek all sexily out of it. Easy!

6. Did those guys on Okcupid scare you away from fedoras? Think again.....

They're the perfect casual warm-weather accessory. They look great with the current long shirt and I'M WEARING NO SHORTS LOOK.

7. They also look lovely with outerwear.

8. On days when your hair is doing something unforgivable, tuck it into a turban.

Instantly go from looking like a mess to like a girl with amazing personal style that other people want to copy.

Via: souchi.com

9. And they're not just for covering up bedhead!

 How could you not want this flawlessness on your own head? urban turbans are so kool.

10. Want to be the coolest girl in any room? Wear a snapback.

These pair particularly awesomely with superfeminine make up. Also, on days where you're keeping your outfit way low-key, a snapback will help you look like that laziness was totally intentional.

11. Berets aren't as cheesy as you think. Like Mary Tyler Moore, They can turn the world on with a smile.......

They can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seam worth while!

 Wear this hat and you'll be that girl.

12. Make a statement at the office party with a pillbox hat, especially a veiled one.

Even the extremely hat-phobic have to admit that a pillbox worn with an evening dress is pretty dazzling, style-wise. You can't wear this kind of hat and not be the embodiment of a "dame."

13. And if you're going for full-on glamour, cloches are crucial.

These look gorgeous with extremely simple, elegant dresses and coats.

or maybe you just feel like wearing a casual summer cloche.

14. Men just love women who wear hats, so if you want to nab a summer beau, wear a hat. The king will know is queen by her crown.

15. So obviously, it's just clear that hats are the best thing since sliced white bead and you should definitely be wearing them.

GHETTO GOTHIC - FINALLY A FRESH TREND

GHE20G0TH1K Party Initiates New Fashion Trend

by Misty White Sidell Apr 11, 2013 

Underground New York party GHE20G0TH1K is gaining popularity with cool downtown kids. But, as Misty White Sidell reports, it’s tied into a larger fashion trend and creative movement.

Photo illustration: The Daily Beast; Photos: courtesy Venus X

There have always been underground movements in New York, from punks to beatniks. Now comes a new one: “GHE20G0TH1K” is a subculture that, like many of the city’s most enduring fringe waves, encompasses a nightlife circuit and an inimitable sense of style—with a freedom of expression at its core.

At its most basic, GHE20G0TH1K—pronounced “ghetto gothic”—is an underground party, held in a raw New York club space every few weeks. Quickly, it has become one of the city’s coolest fêtes, playing home to a scene of new-wave tastemakers looking for an evening of uninhibited fun.

At a recent GHE20G0TH1K party, the room was filled with a crew of club kids who have merged hallmarks of athletic, urban, and Internet-inspired fashions into a single style, as downtown cult figures like the albino African-American model Shaun Ross circulated the dance floor. Among the wardrobe references in the crowd lay motocross, traditional Indian embellishments, and BDSM, which they mishmashed with the talent of seasoned Harajuku girls. Their ensembles incorporate dog collars, track pants, streetwear brand-logo sweatshirts, crop tops, bindis, racing jackets, and sometimes even those pale Die Antwoord–type contact lenses. 

But GHE20G0TH1K is a whole lot more than just a party. It’s become a larger movement, with many of its adaptors using the name as an umbrella term for a style of dress, an attitude, and an overarching ideology. “It’s about having the access and power to be exactly what you want to be instead of having to fit a prescription or stereotype,” its founder, a DJ named Venus X, says of the movement’s appeal. “It’s a new world order, like punk for the street. “[GHE20G0TH1K] has caught on a lot because people have a need to be themselves, and a lot of people are frustrated by societal expectations.”

But it had small beginnings. Venus X founded GHE20G0TH1K in 2009, when the then–21-year-old New York DJ (born Jazmin Venus Soto), held the event in small Brooklyn bars. Word spread in the last four years, and it’s grown into a cultish party held in large, downtown club spaces and warehouses in Brooklyn. (The party has also won Soto a good deal of fame, and now she performs sets around the globe.)

The party’s initial draw was its music—a mashup of hip-hop, trance, and electronic beats that fuse together to form an energizing, original sound. “At first people would tell me, ‘All I hear is ghetto, I don’t hear any goth,’ but I’m trying to redefine what goth is,” Soto says. “If a rap song is about murder, that is pretty dark.” Her taste in music cross-references a variety of genres from pop to rap, to international tracks from Lebanon and Mexico.

DJ Venus X, the creator of Ghe20G0th1k. (Photo: Sam Bayliss, courtesy of Venus X)

GHE20G0TH1K culture is markedly different from other New York “scenes” of the last decade—namely because Soto’s parties are devoid of the pretention you may find at other fashion-y boîtes. Instead, there’s a generous whiff of inhibition and fun. Bindis glimmer on nodding foreheads, asses shake in calculated repetitions, and a quartet of partiers dressed as Daft Punk–type robots garner an admiring audience. “I think that in the late ’90s through the 2000s, it was like, ‘Where did all of the cool kids go?’” says Julie Anne Quay, founder of fashion social-media platform VFiles. “It seemed for a while that every party was sponsored by Veuve Clicquot. It was a crazy club-kid scene, but a sponsored scene. The power of youth culture in New York is really coming back, and I feel like [GHE20G0TH1K] is really at the forefront of it.” Jenné Lombardo, cofounder of MADE Fashion Week, explained: “I think that particularly now there is a generational shift that has happened. It’s all about the kids—a pulse is coming off the concrete of our streets and it’s really been lacking.”

That “pulse” has extended from the dance floor into the creative realm as well. The GHE20G0TH1K party, with its heavy glow of black lights, is not so much a platform for debauchery as it is some symbol of freedom. And now, it has extended onto the runways as well: it has offered an opportune environment for Shayne Oliver, designer of the fashion label Hood by Air –a brand that’s integral to the GHE20G0TH1K movement. “I guess you could say it’s kind of embedded into the culture,” Oliver said of his label’s place within the GHE20G0TH1K community (he DJs at the parties as well).

“It’s a new world order, like punk for the street."

His rise to stardom was firmly cemented at February’s New York Fashion Week, when Oliver enlisted A$AP Rocky to walk in his show. Cult figures such as artist Terrence Koh, Kanye West’s art director Virgil Abloh, and designer Nicola Formichetti sat front row. Oliver says his label’s aesthetic is “kind of a literal interpretation of hip-hop and goth fashions styled together to create this new look. I think we try to keep it as sexy as possible just for the reason that everything in New York is covered up.” Lombardo, who was responsible for putting “HBA” on the Fashion Week schedule, says she was struck by Oliver’s “ability to listen to his generation, to his culture, and you really fell that in his clothes—there is a lot of sincerity. Fashion at the end of the day is just clothes, it's style that makes it interesting—personal taste and an interpretation of what’s going on.”

Hood by Air, available in renowned retail outlets like Colette in Paris, Opening Ceremony in New York (and VFiles’s own boutique), is just an example of fashion’s heightened interest in urban-inspired clothing. Labels like Abloh’s Pyrex and streetwear brand Supreme along with designer labels like Nike, Kenzo, and Givenchy are capitalizing on the current feeling that Lombardo labels as “urban and it’s definitely taking inspiration for athletic wear and hip-hop and articulating it in a different way.”

While GHE20G0TH1K’s aesthetic is rooted in black-and-white designs, it's a micro component in a larger urban trend that plays into a variety of colors, prints, and limited-edition runs. Quay says that this adaptation of urban design reflects “a lifestyle change. That thing when you go to work like Melanie Griffith [in] Working Girl in your sneakers and then change into heels doesn’t happen anymore. You need cool sneakers, you need a hoodie, you need a pair of baggy-cool sweatpants. Stella McCartney and Alexander Wang have made seriously chic sweatpants that could be worn anywhere. It’s just based on the needs of an urban lifestyle, but you still want to look really good.”

The look’s popularity has made GHE20G0TH1K feel even more relevant. It has quickly begun influencing more mainstream music and fashion acts—sending those most closely tied with GHE20G0TH1K through a loop. “I guess it’s a part of the job, the one thing that fashion does that is wrong though is that they don’t fully engulf the idea of something, they only take it for face value,” Oliver says. Soto was more blunt: “It’s very interesting to watch your brands become more mainstream, but to be excluded from that…there is so much vampire energy. I want to be careful. I’m still a struggling artist staying broke while other people use my ideas.”

For this reason, she is famously guarded about GHE20G0TH1K, rarely posting her DJ samples online, releasing word of parties only days ahead of time, and banning all photography from her events.

But GHE20G0TH1K’s fans find its demise by cause of widespread adaptation unlikely. Says supporter and artist Jeanette Hayes: “Venus and Shayne are so surprising in everything they do. I cannot see people looking at their ideas and saying, ‘Oh, that looks normal.’ They will always challenge what you think and what you know.”