Any chance frum women will go back to wearing hats?

amother

OP ↓

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 1:13 pm

Any chance fashion conscious frum women (in Brooklyn/Queens) will go back to wearing hats?

I havent seen women wearing hats (except for sporty beanies) for a long time.

https://www.vogue.com/article/.....mber-

Hats Are Back! All the Ways to Wear Fall’s Jauntiest Accessory

Tall or flat, solid or patterned, close-knit or wide-brimmed: Fall’s jauntiest accessory is also its most dazzlingly variable.

amother

Bisque

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 1:24 pm

Oh I love this!

Do you think hats for men will ever comeback? (Secular population)

amother

↑ OP ↓

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 1:34 pm

giftedmom wrote:

I guess you haven’t been to much of Brooklyn

I live in Brooklyn in the center of BP, close to Beth El 15/48, so I see all levels of frumkeit on a typical Shabbos.

At most, I see 1 woman wearing a hat for every 99 not wearing a hat on Shabbos.

Thirty years ago and before, hats were the IN thing to wear on Shabbos.

amother

Magenta

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 1:48 pm

amother OP wrote:

Go to a united synagogue in the UK. Everyone wears hats on Shabbas.

amother

Crocus

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 1:50 pm

Respectfully, OP, living in BP you most definitely do NOT see all levels of frumkeit

amother

Begonia ↓

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 2:42 pm

amother OP wrote:

I wear elegant hats every day in BP. But yes I'm one of the only ones. I wear it with a wig (hat fall).
But my hats look nothing like that picture lol.

Cheiny

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 2:44 pm

amother OP wrote:

I wouldn't wear one of the hats in the pic if you paid me…

amother

Geranium

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 2:58 pm

amother Begonia wrote:

I wear elegant hats every day in BP. But yes I'm one of the only ones. I wear it with a wig (hat fall).
But my hats look nothing like that picture lol.

Can you share where you get your hats or the styles you wear? Every day and formal? I’d like to try a hat fall and mostly see them with the slouchy-beanie style or the big Pom Pom hat. (Or, do you mean chassidish style hats? Those are beautiful but wouldn’t work for me.)

amother

↑ Begonia

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 3:05 pm

amother Geranium wrote:

My hats are mostly Badgley Mischka, Vince Camuto, Nine West, etc.
No I do not mean anything like chassidish style.

amother

Mustard

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 5:35 pm

This is funny because I wore hats for the first 10+ years of covering and recently switched to scarves because even among us hat wearers, hats were going out and were harder and harder for find.

tigerwife

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 6:15 pm

I’m here for it! I love an elegant hat for shul and a fedora for the week.

amother

Bone

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 6:22 pm

You just brought back memories of that women’s hat store in Bklyn on M and maybe E. 14? Now I think it’s a men’s hat store but it used to a fancy ladies hat store !! We used to love checking it out .. they were considered so classy !

amother

Plum

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 6:41 pm

amother Magenta wrote:

Go to a united synagogue in the UK. Everyone wears hats on Shabbas.

Thats because they want to "cover" for shul.
Not ontop of a shaitel.

When I was a kid, it was superfashionable for the mother of the bride or groom to wear a hat ontop of sheitel at their childs chuppa.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 6:57 pm

amother Crocus wrote:

Respectfully, OP, living in BP you most definitely do NOT see all levels of frumkeit

I'm very aware that BP is 95% Chassidish, yes, but what would you call the small number of women who daven in Beth El?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 6:59 pm

amother Bone wrote:

And theres was Cohen's hats in the 1960s and 1970s right on 13th. I think they called it Cohen's Millinery. They were fancy.

amother

↑ OP

Thu, Nov 28 2024, 7:36 pm

ChutzPAh wrote:

She looks like she’s got a peanut in the shell on her head.

Im not sure if you dont think theyre Tzniusdik, or you dont like the taste/look, but on Rosh Hashana, in the middle of BP, I saw very young Chassidish women wearing shoes with huge platforms, and no less than 5" thick block heels.

You had to see it to believe it.

Imho those "SHOES" were way less Tzniusdik and tasteful than either of the hats pictured here.

"Al Ta-am V'Ray-ach, Ain L'His-va-kay-ach"