Wouldn’t it be great if someone could just tell you which was the perfect hat for you and your hair loss situation. Clearly there are a lot of factors in play.
Best hats for bald ladies guide
We can talk about soft breathable fabrics, minimal seams and volume as the ultimate hat find. BUT if the hat style doesn’t make you feel good and fit in with what you want to do, it all somehow misses the mark. So let’s define what we mean by ‘fit in with your lifestyle’. It’s important that your headwear fits you AND your day.
Alopecia hats for women
Most women with extensive hair loss simply want hats for hair loss that work with all the situations they face each day, this equals ‘lifestyle’. Yes the fabric has to work hard to ensure you don’t overheat, particularly if you want to wear one hat all day – inside and out. Picking up the kids from school, walking the dog, meeting up with friends – a busy mum. Or maybe its a part time office role / zoom meeting attendance that has to be fitted in along with everything else.
Style and colour will help us pin down this elusive ‘best hat everrrr’. Most women know what colours suit them, your wardrobe is probably full of the colours that you like to wear. Stick with those colours when you search for headwear. It will make every day wearing so much easier.
Next think about all the glorious situations that will be thrown at you today. If it’s dressy or purely practical, that will dictate the style. Here’s some hat inspo + situation combinations that we hope you’ll find helpful.
What hats look good on bald heads?
Daywear = office + home office + meal out – a turban head wrap Sabrina. This turban is essentially a hood with an infinity band attached, so it’s easy to tie and wraps around the head creating volume. You can move the volume around to wear as you wish. Wrap it with height on top, or make it flatter on top with more volume gathered at the sides. (Avail. in colours.)
How to not look bald wearing a hat? i.e hats that provide volume over a bald head
This is what we describe as a ‘fashion turban’, a definite look. Yes it ticks the box for full head coverage but its doing more than just coverage. Let’s look at its shape (cut) and the volume it creates – there is plenty of fabric to it, to disguise defined head shape. It might not be the colour of your choice, but do think about confident (slightly brighter) colours, or colours that convey ‘warmth’ and ‘wellness’ around the face.
Daywear = kids pick up + shopping + dog walk – caps somehow look more casual and everyday. The Zip Cap has a pleated crown (not stitched down, you can move the pleats around to suit), a short soft peak – no hard inserts to draw your forehead and is cut generously onto the nape of the neck with an elasticated fitting.
Not a cap wearer? Need something neater, that hugs the head more?
Daywear = kids pick up + shopping + dog walk + coffee – a simple Kimmy beanie with a little pleating at the front to add some texture and soften the head profile. If you’re thinking the head shape is still too defined, then add an infinity band (seen here the 2-tone version.) If this feels a bit dressy, try our infinity bands in solid colours. (An infinity is like a long wide headband, but it wraps around your head exactly twice. They come sized to your head fitting so they hug the head but there is more fabric to move and place as you wish.)
Beanies are great to layer with – you can add this thin jersey hat under a favourite winter hat and continue wearing them. The inch or so at the back of the neck will be covered and unseen from the front (see below for ideas).
Having read this far if you’re left feeling hats are all a bit too smart for me, they are more intentional. If you’re not used to wearing anything on your head, ‘anything’ will feel ‘more’.
Daywear/evening wear = don’t like a hat + don’t want to keep fiddling with a scarf – Scarves can look casual, with lots of women wearing them everyday for cultural reasons, to protect their hair from sun/rain, or to cover up a ‘I haven’t had time to wash my hair’ sort of day.
You can show off your style in colour, fabric – silk, cotton – long or square scarf, pattern or texture. Shown above is an abstract gold silk scarf on the left, a duotone long bamboo scarf in the middle, a plain modal long scarf far right.
Silk you can dress up with make-up and jewellery for an evening out. (As long as the scarf weight is light i.e without a rolled edge, silk scarves can be non-slippy.) Bamboo and modal (beech viscose) are hard to differentiate between, both feel super soft to the touch and drape (wrap round) the head beautifully, with more volume than silk. Silk tends to ‘pack down’ neatly as you pull it tight around the head.
The secret to ‘non-fiddly’ head scarves is to ensure they are big enough. Plenty of fabric means volume and that you can tie it securely. Don’t feel put off by a large square or long scarf – you’ll be able to tie it once and it will stay in place all day.
I hope you’ve found some useful inspo’ here and see the many possibilities, all of which do not look like ‘patient wear’. In my view none of these looks immediately suggest hair loss, they could be worn for a number of reasons.
Ultimately if you find an item that enables you to feel confident, step out and face the day, then that’s the headwear for you. No hard and fast rules. Buy it in every colour (whilst available) that suits you and stick with it – when it works, it works.
