HOW TO WEAR A BEANIE WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE AN IDIOT If you’ve ever uttered the words, “Hats just don’t suit me” it may be because you’ve simply been wearing the wrong ones. Beanies work well with menswear’s current love of utilitarian workwear, and there are several styles to match even the weirdest and lumpiest of face shapes. We’ll explain all about how to wear a beanie the right way shortly. WHAT BEANIE STYLES SHOULD MEN AVOID? 1. THE BAGGY BEANIE As mentioned earlier, for several years in the noughties, every man and his dog was wearing an oversized, slouchy beanie. Needless to say, it was not a good look. David Beckham, as he often is, was instrumental in the spread of this fad. The former England captain was constantly getting papped wearing his baggy beanie in airports the world over, leaving us all asking the same question: just what exactly was he trying to smuggle through customs? 2. VISOR/PEAKED BEANIES If a 13-year-old kid in an oversized Limp Bizkit T-shirt and baggy jeans thinks it’s ‘sick’, the rest of us should probably leave it well alone. Unless you’re a badly rendered computer character called ‘Otto’ in a Nintendo 64 snowboarding game, this headwear nightmare is best given an extremely wide berth. 3. NOVELTY BEANIES You should really know by now that in the world of menswear, anything with the prefix ‘novelty’ should be avoided like the plague, and beanies are no exception.