Welcome to the first article in a four part series. This post will cover women’s hat trends for the Autumn/Winter 2017 seasons.
In the last hat trends post, we discussed how there are four overarching visions for each season.
The first style for the A/W ‘17 season is full of soft pastels and greys with hipster inspiration. The trend has a handcrafted feel at a mass produced level.
The second trend consists of deep earth tones, predominately reds, browns, and greens. Earth elements like wood grains, fire, and recyclable materials are used throughout.
The third style revolves around an active lifestyle and performance fabrics. Reflective and metallic elements on grey-scale garments are common.
The final trend also uses a lot of pastels. Retro looks are met with modern technology and bright pops of color and texture.
Over the next three weeks, we will discuss the season’s trends for men and youth, as well as active and performance apparel, so check back every Monday for updates.
But, ladies first.
Style and Personality
Women are creatures of individuality, so we’ve split this section into four different styles. We’ve related the women’s hat trends back to personalities, activities, and lifestyles.
Cold Weather
This includes knits, fleeces, aviators, and ear warmers. Layers are very important here; bulky styles are
popular with heather fabrics. Poms, including faux fur poms, are used on a lot of knits as well as chunky
weaves, patterns, and taglines.
Country Boutique
These are the hats you would see a rodeo queen wearing on her day off. The patterns and textures are bright with bold embellishments like studs, rhinestones, and ornate crosses. Tribal inspired patterns and turquoise are completed with sassy taglines. Camouflage and animal patterns are also common.
Outdoorsy
Significant colors for the outdoorsy women’s hat trends include black, grey, pink, and aqua blue; camo patterns are very common in this category also. There are some Americana styles mixed in with hunting and both freshwater and saltwater fishing. Generic outdoor elements like leaves, floral, and mountain images are also used here.
Surf and Skate
These are going to be beachy pastels with floral prints. 5-panel trucker shapes with sublimated or screen
printed designs are used a lot. California is a commonly used motif as well as generic surf and
skate references.
Decoration Elements
There are a lot of fabrics and embellishments forecasted for women for the A/W ‘17 season.
These include tweeds, pleats, weatherproof fabrics, hardware, lace details, jewels, sequins, glitter, satin, suede, mesh, snake patterns, bold clashing patterns, and faux fur, among others.
Graphics
Common motifs we’re seeing in graphics everywhere include sugar skulls, elephants, owls, cats, dogs, deer, and anchors. These are both embedded in all-over patterns and used as the primary art piece.
Prints and Patterns
Stripes, plaids, and paisleys remain important. But, floral, geometric, Hawaiian themed patterns and tribal patterns are acquiring a lot of the market. Black and white patterns are used a lot with accent colors, but bold pastels are dominant.
Trim and Details
There are a lot of added decorative features for women’s headwear including flowers, chains, buttons, braided bands and ropes, studs, lace accents, bows, quilting, antique brass accents, faux fur, and leather elements.
Fashion Blanks
These will rarely include baseball cap shapes; typically they will be fashion forward shapes like fedoras, bowlers, sailor caps, and brimmed hats. We’re seeing a lot of searsucker fabrics, heathered wools and felts, and dressy plaids with embellishments like buckles, bows, scarves, and flowers.
Keep an eye out for the men’s, youth, and athleisure trends in the coming weeks, and let us know what you think about the women’s hat trends in the comments below. For more information, follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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