Three Hat Styles for Autumn

We no longer wear hats most days, but in Autumn the things are too useful to be without. Open topped cars on sunny days are one occasion. Spitting rain is another. A wardrobe of three types will suffice.

I recall seeing two very large gentlemen in a Jaguar convertible looking smashing in their Homburg hats. That is the model at the upper right in the Esquire illustration and it is the most formal of the three types. Have one of them in the more casual Lord's hat version, colored either black or midnight blue, for semi-formal dress and dark city suits.

Then there is the Cavalier felt, at the lower left. In lightweight beaver it is to my eye the best looking of the general purpose hat shapes, and a brown one strikes the right note with flannel suits. The more frequent hat wearer may want a second, in gray, to wear with his worsteds.

Finally, every wardrobe should have at least one cap, like the one worn by the young man at the upper left, for casual days and they are so useful that four of them are not too many. In tweed, cashmere or corduroy, and properly full cut - the versions offered by London's Lock & Co today are too skimpy - they are worn when other men might don baseball caps, about which nothing need be said.

And those are three hat styles for autumn. Or spring for that matter.