ABSTRACT
Hats are associated with fashion and the wearer's social attitudes and status. Hats are also worn as fashionable adornments rather than just for warmth. How they are worn is a style of the time. There are three basic ways to wear hats: commonly fitted on the head, slanted at an angle, and high on top of the head. In Chapter 2, I discussed the proportions of the head and face in relation to the body. Now I will talk about adding hats in positions on the head. A hat has two basic parts: crown and brim. A common-fitted hat's crown attaches to the head's circumference; the tilted, angle-fitted hat attaches and conforms to the contour of the head; the hat sitting on top of the head attaches to the contour of the top of the head (mostly the hat sits on top of a hairdo). The following are suggestions for creating hats (see Figmes 4-1 through 44): "Ii Complete the shape of the head and be ready to
add a hat on the head.
