Style Guide｜Women’s Designer Hats｜What to wear if you have a round face shape
Do you ever wonder how to choose a hat, cap or fedora that will enhance and flatter your face shape?
Taking inspiration from famous faces, we’ve put together some top tips on choosing a hat for round or round-ish face shapes, along with a selection of hats from Karen’s collection to help you find out what might suit you.
Round face shapes : some examples
We have picked out some famous female faces to show off characteristics of the round face shape. A round overall outline, wide forehead or wide cheeks are quite typical of the round face shape.
As always, hairstyles can either emphasise or deflect from the face shape, depending on the effect you’re looking for.
Adding height to your hair style can be a good move for round face shapes, as it can appear to lengthen the overall silhouette of your face. And here, Emma Stone and Kirsten Dunst are wearing their long hair down with a side-sweep: this has a lengthening effect too.
The key advice with headwear is: choose hats that add some asymmetry, some height and/or some angular details - Generally, try to avoid hats with a rounded silhouette.
Here is our selection of hats from Karen’s extensive women’s collection that work well for round or round-ish face shapes.
Handpicked women’s hat designs for round face shapes
1. Caps
Caps can work well for round face shapes, but steer clear of designs that are too rounded.
The Lee peaked cap has wide-ranging appeal, but with its generous pleats adding a squareness to its shape, it is especially good on rounder faces
Coram flat cap has enough structure to work for rounder faces, especially when worn at an angle
Inge peaked cap has quite a square outline with interesting angles provided by the pleats
2. Cloche Hats
Some generic cloche hat styles can often be too round for round face shapes. However, our more structured cloche hats work well for many rounder faces.
Emma cloche/toque has quite a square outline, with an elegant flourish to one side.
The Kathy cloche has a structured design with interesting asymmetric seams and retro buttons detail
3. Brimmed hats, trilby hats and fedoras
Look out for brimmed hat styles with a structured crown, as these will be more flattering. See Crawford, Garbo, Broadwick and Berwick pictured below.
Garbo trilby style hat in purple wool tweed
Berwick trilby hat with warm ear covers
Broadwick brimmed hat
Crawford, the glamorous fedora style inpired by 1950’s style
4. Last but not least… a good beret
This is a singular design, as berets are not generally considered flattering for round face shapes. Bonnie does work well for round face shapes - thanks its unusual structured shape and elegant pleats and buttons. Wear it tipped to one side.
Have a try and see for yourself
I hope you found these tips useful. Please let me know any thoughts or questions in the comments below.
The best way to see what fits is still to have a feel, try a design and see how the design fits in person at an upcoming show or by appointment in the London studio.
All our hats, flat caps and beret-caps are made in-house, in the London studio by Karen herself. Everything is made to order and to size, to ensure the perfect fit. For complete peace of mind all online orders can be returned for a refund or exchange.