Key Items for AW08: Bowler Hat
Ever since spying one of the new Topshop ‘on the buses’ ads, I am suddenly harbouring an irrepressible urge to buy a bowler hat. They’ve been creeping in for a while of course, a quaint and charming replacement for the over-exposed trilby or ubiquitous headband, but I’ve always admired them in a vaguely detached “yeah-they-look-quite-good-on-Clemence-Poesy” kind of way rather than as a viable style choice for my own particular head.
Thinking about it now, though, and I’d quite like to get myself a dash of ‘Mr Benn’-esque charm. I do love a hat, and really bowler hats could be the perfect transitional headwear to get through that tricky seasonal change when you still can’t wear your favourite wooly hat.
Topshop, of course, have a lovely black number that will look rather bonny with old printed dresses, patterns tights, clunky heels and an aura of Sonia Rykiel inspired delight. And, of course, it gives my something to tip in the street. £20 available at Topshop
Author: Katy Smail
a Illustration graduate from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007, and has spent the past year in a world of words, pictures, fashion and stories.
She works as a freelance fashion writer, while her illustrations 'like candyfloss sticking to wind blown lips' are found in publications like 'The Talent' and 'Curvy Annual 08', and are sold in 'Luna and Curious', Brick Lane, London.
