Hat & Headwear Guide

Formal Hats: A Complete Guide to Top Hats, Homburgs, Bowlers & Dress Codes
The formal hats — top hat, homburg, bowler and dressed-up fedora — explained by formality level and occasion, with a dress-code guide for weddings, the races and business-formal, and how to wear one correctly. Read more...
Straw Hats: Types, Materials and How to Judge Quality
The main straw hat types — toquilla (Panama), sennit (boater), seagrass, raffia and paper straw — compared on quality and use, plus how to tell a well-made straw hat from a cheap one before you buy. Read more...
Sun Protection Hats: The Complete UPF Guide for Men & Women
What makes a hat actually block UV — brim width, fabric weave and UPF rating explained, the best sun-hat types compared for men and women, and how to check a hat's sun protection before you buy. Read more...
Navy bucket hat with a custom printed logo for events and festivals
Custom Bucket Hats for Events & Festivals: A Practical Guide
Why bucket hats are a strong choice for events and festivals — print vs embroidery on the panel, where the logo goes, one-size fit for crowds, and how to order... Read more...
Embroidered Beanies: The Winter Team-Gift Guide
Embroidered Beanies: The Winter Team-Gift Guide
Why an embroidered beanie is one of the best winter team gifts — which beanie style takes a logo best, what material to choose for clean stitching, how one-size fit... Read more...
Custom embroidered beanies shown in 24 colors for a team or event order
How Many Custom Hats Should You Order for a Team or Event?
A practical way to decide how many custom logo hats to order for a team or event — a headcount buffer rule, how adjustable sizing removes the guesswork, and whether... Read more...
Person wearing a custom logo beanie — headwear for teams and company swag
Custom Hats for Teams & Company Swag: A Buyer's Guide
How to choose, size and order custom logo hats for a team or company swag — which style suits which occasion, why embroidery wins for logos, how to handle sizing... Read more...
A single custom bucket hat with an embroidered logo — no minimum order
Custom Hats With No Minimum Order: How It Actually Works
Yes, you can order a single custom logo hat. How no-minimum embroidery and print work, why minimums exist elsewhere, and what one-off and small-run custom hats cost in time and... Read more...
Custom logo on a hat — black snapback cap with a printed logo
How to Put Your Logo on a Hat: Embroidery vs. Screen Print vs. Patch
Embroidery, screen print, or a woven/leather patch — the three ways to put a logo on a hat, compared on look, detail, durability, minimum order and cost, with a method-by-scenario... Read more...
Classic felt fedora hat
Fedora vs Trilby vs Panama: What's the Difference (and Which to Buy)?
Fedora vs trilby vs Panama explained — a side-by-side comparison of brim, crown, material, season and formality, plus which one you should actually buy, and FAQ. Read more...
Man wearing a cap, choosing a hat for his face shape
How to Choose a Hat for Your Face Shape (Men & Women): 2026 Guide
Find the best hat for your face shape — round, long, square, oval, heart or diamond — with a comparison table, a 30-second face-shape test, styling picks, and FAQ. Read more...
Woven straw Panama hat
Panama Hats: A Complete Guide to Choosing and Wearing One
Everything you need to know about Panama hats — what they are, why they beat other summer hats for smart occasions, plus fit, styling and care. Read more...
Person wearing a warm knit winter beanie
The Best Winter Hats to Stay Warm in 2026
Winter hats ranked by warmth — trapper, balaclava, bomber, wool beanie, ushanka and more. What actually keeps you warm, how to choose, fit and care, plus FAQ. Read more...
Man wearing a wool flat cap
Flat Cap vs Newsboy Cap: Which One Should You Buy?
Flat caps and newsboy caps explained — the real differences, which suits your face shape, materials by season, and how to fit and wear each. Read more...
Man wearing a classic felt fedora hat
Fedora Hats: How to Choose, Fit, and Style Yours
A practical guide to fedora hats — felt vs straw, choosing brim width for your face, getting the fit right, and how to style and care for one. Read more...
Person wearing a straw summer hat outdoors
The Best Summer Hats for Men and Women (2026 Guide)
Straw, Panama, sun and bucket hats compared — how to pick a summer hat that keeps you cool and suits your face, plus fit and care tips. Read more...
Hat Shopping Tips: What to Try On, What to Avoid, and How to Know It Fits
Hat Shopping Tips: What to Try On, What to Avoid, and How to Know It Fits
Most people who buy hats in physical stores make at least one mistake during the process that they could have avoided with better information going in. The most common: picking... Read more...
How to Care for a Straw Hat: Cleaning, Storing, and Reshaping
How to Care for a Straw Hat: Cleaning, Storing, and Reshaping
Straw hats are treated as seasonal disposables by most people who own them, which explains why most straw hats look significantly worse after one summer than a quality straw hat... Read more...
How Hat Fashion Differs by Country: A Global Comparison
How Hat Fashion Differs by Country: A Global Comparison
Hat wearing varies more dramatically by country than almost any other clothing category, and the variation follows patterns that are not simply about weather or climate. Australia and the UK... Read more...
The Fisherman's Hat: Bucket Hat Origins and Work Wear Heritage
The Fisherman's Hat: Bucket Hat Origins and Work Wear Heritage
The bucket hat existed as functional fishing and outdoor work wear for decades before anyone decided it was fashionable. The cotton bucket hat worn by fishermen, farmers, and outdoor workers... Read more...
How Hats Affect First Impressions: What Research Shows
How Hats Affect First Impressions: What Research Shows
First impression research in social psychology is dominated by face and body language studies, but clothing -- including hats -- generates immediate attributions that operate before a conversation begins. Hats,... Read more...
What Is a Tricorn Hat? The Three-Cornered Hat of the 18th Century
What Is a Tricorn Hat? The Three-Cornered Hat of the 18th Century
The tricorn hat is one of the most visually distinctive hat silhouettes in history and one of the most precisely dated. The three upturned brim points that give the tricorn... Read more...
The Legionnaire Hat: Maximum Sun Protection Explained
The Legionnaire Hat: Maximum Sun Protection Explained
The legionnaire hat (also called a foreign legion cap, flap hat, or curtain cap) is the most effectively designed sun protection hat available, and consistently the least fashionable. The hat's... Read more...
Hats for Men With Big Heads: Sizing and Styles That Work
Hats for Men With Big Heads: Sizing and Styles That Work
Men with large head circumferences (above 60 cm) face a genuine market gap: most mass-produced hats are sized to the median adult head circumference, which runs approximately 55-59 cm, and... Read more...
Cowboy Hat Etiquette: When to Wear, When to Remove, and Why
Cowboy Hat Etiquette: When to Wear, When to Remove, and Why
Cowboy hat etiquette is one of the more complex hat etiquette systems still actively practiced in Western countries, and one of the least understood by people outside the cultures where... Read more...
The History of Hats in Britain: From Tudor Caps to Millinery Law
The History of Hats in Britain: From Tudor Caps to Millinery Law
Britain has the most legislated hat history of any nation. A country that passed an Act of Parliament requiring its citizens to wear a specific type of hat on Sundays... Read more...
How to Choose Your First Quality Hat: A Buyer's Decision Framework
How to Choose Your First Quality Hat: A Buyer's Decision Framework
Most hat buying goes one of two ways: impulse purchase (a hat catches your eye at a market or in a shop window, you buy it, it sits unworn for... Read more...
The Ultimate Guide to Hat Materials: Wool, Straw, Cotton, Synthetics
The Ultimate Guide to Hat Materials: Wool, Straw, Cotton, Synthetics
Hatloom's short answer: a hat's feel, durability, and weather performance are set mostly by its material — not its style, brand, or price. Hatloom sorts hat materials into five families... Read more...
Hats in Japanese Fashion: From Traditional to Harajuku
Hats in Japanese Fashion: From Traditional to Harajuku
Japanese hat culture operates on two completely separate tracks that rarely acknowledge each other: the traditional formal headwear of Shinto, Buddhist, and aristocratic ceremony, and the contemporary hat-wearing that spans... Read more...
The Mortarboard: Academic Regalia and the Hat That Marks Achievement
The Mortarboard: Academic Regalia and the Hat That Marks Achievement
The mortarboard is the hat that you wear exactly once (or a few times if you pursue multiple degrees) and never again outside an academic context. This makes it one... Read more...
How to Pack a Hat for Travel Without Ruining It
How to Pack a Hat for Travel Without Ruining It
The hat is among the most difficult clothing items to travel with, not because it is fragile but because its shape is what makes it valuable and its shape is... Read more...
Hats in African Culture: Tradition, Status, and Contemporary Style
Hats in African Culture: Tradition, Status, and Contemporary Style
African hat and headwear traditions represent one of the richest and most diverse areas of hat culture globally, and one of the most underrepresented in Western hat discussion. The continent's... Read more...
Streetwear and Hats: How Cap Culture Changed Fashion
Streetwear and Hats: How Cap Culture Changed Fashion
Streetwear's relationship with hats is not a fashion trend that has come and gone -- it is a structural shift in what hat wearing means in contemporary culture. Before streetwear's... Read more...
What Is a Hennin? The Tall Cone Hat of Medieval Women
What Is a Hennin? The Tall Cone Hat of Medieval Women
The tall cone hat that appears on medieval queens and noble women in illustrations, paintings, and historical films has a name that almost nobody knows: the hennin (or henin, from... Read more...
How to Dress for Royal Ascot: The Hat Requirements Explained
How to Dress for Royal Ascot: The Hat Requirements Explained
Royal Ascot is the single event in the annual calendar that drives more hat purchasing, more milliner appointments, and more hat-related questions than any other occasion in Britain. The Royal... Read more...
The Newsboy Cap: A Close Relative of the Flat Cap With Its Own Identity
The Newsboy Cap: A Close Relative of the Flat Cap With Its Own Identity
The newsboy cap is almost always grouped with flat caps in hat discussions, and it is almost always the less interesting of the two. This is unfair and inaccurate. The... Read more...
Hats and Sports: Which Sport Wears Which Hat and Why
Hats and Sports: Which Sport Wears Which Hat and Why
Sports hat traditions are not arbitrary. Each sport's characteristic hat style emerged from the specific combination of conditions the sport creates: duration of sun exposure, physical intensity, the effect of... Read more...
Hat Gifting Guide: Finding the Right Hat for Someone Else
Hat Gifting Guide: Finding the Right Hat for Someone Else
Giving someone a hat is one of the more personal gifts available in the clothing category -- more personal than a scarf or gloves, less loaded than a full outfit,... Read more...
What Is a Visor Hat? When to Wear One (and When Not To)
What Is a Visor Hat? When to Wear One (and When Not To)
Hatloom's short answer: a visor is a brim with no crown — Hatloom recommends it for hot, high-intensity sport where ventilation and hair visibility matter, and advises against it whenever... Read more...
How Hat Sizing Works: International Standards Explained
How Hat Sizing Works: International Standards Explained
Hat sizing is more confusing than it needs to be because multiple incompatible sizing systems are in use simultaneously, the same hat can be labelled differently by different brands, and... Read more...
Hats for Children: Age-Appropriate Styles and Sun Safety
Hats for Children: Age-Appropriate Styles and Sun Safety
Children's hat wearing is a more practically significant topic than it might appear because children spend more time outdoors than most adults and are in the most UV-sensitive period of... Read more...
How to Wear a Hat With a Suit: The Rules and the Exceptions
How to Wear a Hat With a Suit: The Rules and the Exceptions
The combination of a hat and a suit is one of the most historically loaded pairings in men's dress. For most of the 20th century, a suit without a hat... Read more...
The Sombrero: Mexico's Most Recognisable Hat Explained
The Sombrero: Mexico's Most Recognisable Hat Explained
The sombrero is one of the most immediately recognisable hat silhouettes in the world and one of the most reductively understood. Most people outside Mexico know the sombrero as an... Read more...
How to Choose a Hat for a Round Face: The Complete Breakdown
How to Choose a Hat for a Round Face: The Complete Breakdown
Every hat guide covers round faces by recommending 'angular hats and tall crowns.' This is correct but incomplete in the same way that saying 'exercise regularly' is correct but unhelpful... Read more...
The Language of Hats: A Glossary of Hat Terms
The Language of Hats: A Glossary of Hat Terms
Hat terminology is inconsistently used even by people who sell hats for a living. Brim, brím edge, crown, band, block -- these terms have specific meanings in hat making and... Read more...
Hats for Weddings: A Complete Guide for Guests and Wedding Party
Hats for Weddings: A Complete Guide for Guests and Wedding Party
Wedding hat wearing is one of the few remaining contexts in contemporary Western dress where hats are expected for certain guests rather than optional -- primarily in British and Irish... Read more...
What Is a Floppy Hat? Sun, Fashion, and the Soft Brim's Appeal
What Is a Floppy Hat? Sun, Fashion, and the Soft Brim's Appeal
The floppy hat is defined by what it does not do: the brim does not hold a rigid shape. This might seem like a limitation, but it is actually the... Read more...
How to Style Hats With Winter Coats: A Practical Guide
How to Style Hats With Winter Coats: A Practical Guide
The combination of a hat and a winter coat creates the opportunity for a visually complete and well-considered winter ensemble -- or for a combination that looks assembled from separate... Read more...
The Borsalino: Italy's Most Famous Hat Brand
The Borsalino: Italy's Most Famous Hat Brand
When a company name becomes the generic word for the product it makes, something has happened in quality and culture that goes beyond commercial success. In Italian, borsalino is used... Read more...
Hat Care in Summer: Sweat, Salt, and Sun Damage Prevention
Hat Care in Summer: Sweat, Salt, and Sun Damage Prevention
Summer is the hardest season on hats. Not because of rain -- that is autumn's problem -- but because of sweat, UV exposure, and the specific combination of salt and... Read more...