5 mistakes to avoid when wearing a hat Use your head

The hat is perhaps the most important menswear accessory of all: if in the past the hat denoted belonging and social status, today its role has changed. The two acceptable hats to wear in public are the classic baseball cap and the bucket hat – we'll talk about fedoras and newsboy hat later, but you won't like what we'll say. Both categories to be considered acceptable remain extremely borderline: the bucket hat is always the safest and, as long as it is not covered with an immense logo and is not of strange sizes, it should always represent a safe choice; the baseball cap instead is a very dangerous material, as it can both inspire a relaxed and sporty mood, and evoke infernal visions of chavs and flashy Jersey Shore-type people that have made it a bit their symbol. 

As summer has begun and the number of various hats and caps seen on the street soars, here are the 5 mistakes to avoid when wearing a hat. 

#1 No to newsboys hats and fedoras

Flair and fantasy are always welcome when it comes to dressing, but not when all the flair focuses on a single accessory. The hat is precisely this: an accessory, something that should add a final touch to the rest but that is not the rest. So if your hat is the most contrite item you're wearing, if its colour is too bright, if the writing above testifies that you've been to some lame festival, that you belong to this or that religious or political belief, or that you've gone to some business convention, but also if it's made up of bizarre or sparkling materials maybe you're doing something wrong.