Beanie Fashion Blog Posts
Apparel Search fashion blog — blog posts about beanie hats and knit caps.
In this section you will find fashion blog posts about beanies. A beanie is a close-fitting knitted cap — brimless, soft and pulled down over the head — that started as workwear and cold-weather gear and became a year-round street style staple. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the beanie posts from the fashion blog and links the beanie, cap and hat definitions at the top, because this small hat sits inside a large headwear family.
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Two posts sit in this index. Fun, Fun, Fashion Trend is a trend post from October 2014, when the beanie's run as a fashion item — worn with dresses and tailoring, not just coats — was at its height. Jay McGuiness Wearing Converse Beanie is a celebrity street-style post: the singer from The Wanted photographed in a branded knit beanie. That pairing is the beanie's whole story in miniature. It is a genuinely practical hat, warm and packable, and at the same time a logo canvas and a styling signal, which is why a post about a trend and a post about one singer wearing one belong on the same page.
The definitions linked above draw the family lines. A beanie is the knitted, brimless member of the cap family; a cap usually has a brim or peak; and hat is the umbrella word for head coverings of all kinds. Beanies are knitted or crocheted in wool, cotton or acrylic, in fits from snug skull cap to slouchy, and details like a folded cuff, a pom-pom or a woven label decide the look. Shoppers will find beanie stores, hat guides for women, men and children, and the wider headwear pages in the topic block below.
Fit is the beanie's whole design problem. A cuffed beanie folds its brim up for warmth over the ears; a fisherman beanie sits short, above the ear; a slouch beanie carries extra length that drapes at the back. Wool is warmest and needs gentler washing, acrylic is cheap, washable and holds bright colors, and cotton knits suit cool rather than cold weather. The pom-pom, borrowed from sailors' and skiers' hats, is pure decoration that never quite leaves the style. Between the trend post and the celebrity post, this small index covers the beanie from both ends: the silhouette of a season and one hat on one head.
Common Questions
What beanie blog posts are collected here?
Two posts: Fun, Fun, Fashion Trend (October 2014), about the beanie's moment as a fashion trend, and Jay McGuiness Wearing Converse Beanie, a celebrity street-style post.
What is a beanie?
A beanie is a close-fitting, brimless knitted cap that pulls down over the head. The beanie definition is linked at the top of this page, alongside the cap and hat definitions that place it in the headwear family.
When are beanies worn?
Beanies are cold-weather hats first — knitted wool or acrylic holds warmth and packs flat — but fashion beanies are worn in every season as a style piece, including with light outfits, which is the trend the posts on this page document.