Copenhagen Fashion Week Girls Declare the Crochet Hat a Summer Wardrobe Essential

Copenhagen Fashion Week started on Monday, and the fashion enthusiasts attending the event have already endorsed a new trend for the summer: the crochet hat. Artfully crafted and nostalgically appealing, the vintage-inspired accessory has its roots in the nightcaps created in the late 1800s and early 1910s to keep women’s curls from getting tangled during the night. Over the decades, the style evolved into embellished skull caps that became part of the 1920s flapper outfit, later being revisited during the bathing cap wave from the 1950s and turned into a statement accessory by pop stars and hippies in the 1970s. Swedish pop group ABBA in 1974 in Stockholm. AFP via Getty Images As the cycle of fashion continued, the crochet hats made a return in the late 1990s and early noughties, with Cameron Diaz, Anne Hathaway and others styling the headwear. “Seeing this emerging woven headpiece trend took me straight back to everyone’s favorite fashion assistant, Andie Sachs, in the first ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘! Styled with a trapeze coat in the movie, it has a distinctly ‘60s feel, which is such a fun way to showcase this headwear style,” celebrity stylist Leon Gray told WWD. Cameron Diaz wearing a crochet hat on “The

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