Each person has a unique set of features, which, combined with their preferences and personal style, determine which hat will suit them best. At Feliz we love helping our customers find their new favorite hat, and we’ve learned that there is no one size fits all when it comes to headwear. Certain features, such as the shape of the face, will favour certain shapes and styles of hats. Face shape is one of the keys to finding a hat that flatters and enhances the wearer.
Shop Feliz Hats for Your Face Shape
Keeping in mind that face shape is only one of many deciding factors when it comes to choosing the perfect hat, here’s a quick guide on how to pick the right hat for you based on the shape of your face.
Determining Your Face Shape
- Oval/long: An oval face is well-balanced, with a forehead that’s slightly wider than the chin and gently rounded edges. The face can also be quite long in shape. This face shape is considered the most versatile when it comes to hats.
- Round: A round face is characterized by soft, curved lines and similar width and length from the forehead to the chin. The goal with hats for a round face is to elongate the features and create angles.
- Square: A square face has a strong jawline, broad forehead, and angular features. Softening these angles with the right hat can add balance.
- Heart-Shaped: A heart-shaped face features a wider forehead with a narrow chin, often with high cheekbones. A hat can add symmetry by balancing the proportions.
- Diamond-Shaped: This face shape is also considered longer, and has a narrow forehead and chin, with wider cheekbones. The key to choosing a hat for this shape is to add width at the forehead and balance the cheekbones.
Casual Caps
These casual headgear pieces are perfect for adding a nonchalant edge to any look. Well made, classic, and comfortable.
Feliz Cap
This classic baseball cap has the Feliz logo embroidered on the rear side, six panel construction, curved beak, an adjustable back strap and a fabric covered button on top. Crafted in premium materials (cotton 80%, polyester 20%).
Best suited for: round and heart shaped face shapes.
Feliz Bucket Hat
This bucket hat is designed to be your best travel buddy, blending fashion with functionality. An easy to wear headpiece and the ultimate addition to any sun-safe look. Crafted in premium materials (cotton 80%, polyester 20%).
Best suited for: round and square face shapes.
Sophisticated Headwear
These beautiful handmade wool felt hats lift any look to a new level. A step up from the casual baseball cap and bucket hat, these pieces will serve you for a lifetime, as accessories befitting any outfit for any event, from weddings to beach walks to mountain journeys and city trips.
Brasil
Our Brasil hat is a handmade wool felt fedora style hat with a relatively soft, clean cut brim and mid-to-tall height crown. Available in a variety of colors.
Best suited for: diamond and heart face shapes. Out of all our wool felt hats, the Brasil has the most narrow rim, meaning it will not widen the face as much as more wide brimmed hats like the Gaucho and Rancher. The Brasil fedora will help support a more narrow jaw and not overwhelm a delicate face.
Gaucho
The Gaucho is a very fashionable, wide brimmed structured wool felt hat inspired by the Argentinean prairies of the 19th century.
Best suited for: square and oval face shapes. The round crown will soften out square faces and create a softer balance with sharp facial features.
Rancher
The Feliz Rancher is wide brimmed, big, classic, and sturdy. With each and every one formed and shaped by hand, the Rancher is durable, daring, and beautiful.
Best suited for: many face shapes, but best suited for oval face shapes. The wide brim will create an illusion of width instead of more length.
Handmade, ethical, traditional
As a brand, Feliz is proudly rooted in its own tradition of ethical and sustainable craftsmanship. Feliz stands for a working environment where human norms and values are absolutely not lost, and where the artisan maker receives a fair reward for the product he produces. Where we try to further reduce Feliz's footprint. Where European traditional knowledge and artisan ateliers are appreciated and supported.
Read more about the creation process of our handmade hats here.