Spatterdash
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Let's be brutally honest here.
I'm not ugly. I'm not classically handsome. I'm not grotesque nor am I gorgeous. My face is my own, with it's particular dimensions and lines.
I have some issues as a hat fan. As my tastes have refined over the years, I've earned a critical eye to my features. The proportion and placement and how they come together to form my face have new meaning to me.
Millerhats has those broad "face and hat types" illustrations, nothing very specific when it comes to your personal hat choices.
So, for the first time, I decided to really analyze my mug in relation to my lid and I wanted to share that.
See, I have a small nose, (and you know what they say, ladies... small nose, small hanky
) and my ears lie pretty flat against my skull. My eyes aren't huge, but they aren't close together and beady. I have a chin, but it isn't a Dick Tracy jawline by a long shot. All these features have good spacing and my face doesn't look small, just kind of a brunette, blue-eyed Peter Pan lookin' guy with gray streaking above the ears.
So what does all that self-indulgent description mean?
I found that a 5 1/4 inch open crown and a 2 1/4 inch brim looks exactly like a much larger hat does on other people.
That 5 3/4 crown with the 2 5/8 brim folks love so much? My smaller proportioned hat looks like that exact hat on me. It's not that those measurements fit my face better, it's that those measurements actually look like the larger measurements when the hat is on my head.
This the phenomenon of the Indy Hat. Someone recently described that hat as "Lightening in a bottle". Very true. Those measurements fit Harrison Ford. Take the exact same characteristics of that hat and apply them to your face and suddenly you have "The Indy look" much better than you thought possible.
I don't have a small noggin, either. I wear a 7 3/4 hat! It's just that my face isn't a 7 3/4 face, I guess.
It was really eye-opening to realistically consider the right brim width and crown size for me. I've been so in love with vintage styles in the past it never crossed my mind to consider how to make a vintage look like a vintage on my head.
I encourage you to do the same. It's a liberating thing to learn you can wear a vintage hat and make it a part of you, instead of a vintage hat sitting on your head and hoping you don't look cartoonish.
And if you find that a 1 3/4 brim or a 3 1/8 brim looks like a 2 3/4 brim on you, embrace it.
You just found your bottle of lightening.
I'm not ugly. I'm not classically handsome. I'm not grotesque nor am I gorgeous. My face is my own, with it's particular dimensions and lines.
I have some issues as a hat fan. As my tastes have refined over the years, I've earned a critical eye to my features. The proportion and placement and how they come together to form my face have new meaning to me.
Millerhats has those broad "face and hat types" illustrations, nothing very specific when it comes to your personal hat choices.
So, for the first time, I decided to really analyze my mug in relation to my lid and I wanted to share that.
See, I have a small nose, (and you know what they say, ladies... small nose, small hanky
) and my ears lie pretty flat against my skull. My eyes aren't huge, but they aren't close together and beady. I have a chin, but it isn't a Dick Tracy jawline by a long shot. All these features have good spacing and my face doesn't look small, just kind of a brunette, blue-eyed Peter Pan lookin' guy with gray streaking above the ears.So what does all that self-indulgent description mean?
I found that a 5 1/4 inch open crown and a 2 1/4 inch brim looks exactly like a much larger hat does on other people.
That 5 3/4 crown with the 2 5/8 brim folks love so much? My smaller proportioned hat looks like that exact hat on me. It's not that those measurements fit my face better, it's that those measurements actually look like the larger measurements when the hat is on my head.
This the phenomenon of the Indy Hat. Someone recently described that hat as "Lightening in a bottle". Very true. Those measurements fit Harrison Ford. Take the exact same characteristics of that hat and apply them to your face and suddenly you have "The Indy look" much better than you thought possible.
I don't have a small noggin, either. I wear a 7 3/4 hat! It's just that my face isn't a 7 3/4 face, I guess.
It was really eye-opening to realistically consider the right brim width and crown size for me. I've been so in love with vintage styles in the past it never crossed my mind to consider how to make a vintage look like a vintage on my head.
I encourage you to do the same. It's a liberating thing to learn you can wear a vintage hat and make it a part of you, instead of a vintage hat sitting on your head and hoping you don't look cartoonish.
And if you find that a 1 3/4 brim or a 3 1/8 brim looks like a 2 3/4 brim on you, embrace it.
You just found your bottle of lightening.
