Face Shape Guide
Here’s How to Find the Right Hat For Your Face Shape
Long Face
For those with a long face, a hat with a low crown and a wide brim can help shorten the length of the face. A fedora with a short crown and a wide brim, a pork pie hat, or a wide-brimmed sun hat are good options to shorten the potentially exaggerated effect of a long face.
Avoid beanies for this very reason.
Heart Face
A heart-shaped face, which is exactly how it sounds, benefits best from a hat with a medium brim that is wider at the bottom will help balance the proportions of the face. Hats such as a baseball cap, newsboy, or fedora. That’s because a nice, clipped brim or angle will de-accentuate the wideness of your upper face and the narrowness of your jaw.
Avoid floppy brims, as the extra volume around the top of your face may appear exaggerated. You’ll look best in hats with wide brims, western & cowboy hats, sun hats, or hats that cut across the forehead, to shorten the potentially exaggerated effect of a long face. Avoid beanies for this very reason.
Oval Face
An oval face is considered to be the ideal face shape and can wear almost any style of hat. People with oval faces can choose from a variety of hat styles, including fedoras, sun hats, and wide-brimmed hats.
Round Face
It’s easy to remember what to wear with a round face. Lean toward hats with exactly the opposite features– here, angular, rather than rounded, styles work best. For people with a round face, hats with a low crown and a wide brim will help elongate the face and give it a more angular appearance.
A fedora or a trilby with a wide brim or a tall top hat or high crown hat are good options. A retro-style like a or cloche will work, while a beanie hat pulled low over your face will elongate it.
Square Face
A square face has the benefit of strong, angular facial features, which can be overly exaggerated with hats that sport similar angles.
To avoid overkill, soften them a bit with a hat with rounded lines can soften the angles and help balance the face. A fedora with a rounded crown, a bucket hat, or a wide-brimmed sun hat for women can work well.
Diamond Face
For a diamond-shaped face, how you wear the hat may be as important as which hat you wear. Because a diamond face has width around the top part of the head and a narrower jawline, wearing a hat further back on the head can mitigate the potential for a shortened face.
Pick a beanie or pull-on you can style further back or something with a shallow crown, like a pork pie.