This report compiles the popular hat silhouette trends, including popular playful beanie, trendy beanie, gradient plush hats, brimmed Balaclava, fashionable berets, and sheepskin printed bucket hats, etc. The hat silhouette trend is not only limited to changes in shape but can also be combined with various crafts and materials to create unique and attractive designs.

This report gathers popular trends in the shape of outdoor hats, including popular boonie hats, ear flap hats, protective hood, extended back brim, multi-functional detachable designs, and scarf-style hat cords.

The hat designs for infants and toddlers in the 24/25 autumn/winter season create a comfortable and warm atmosphere. Represented by bonnets, caps, and beanies, the focus of the design is on using soft, breathable materials and protecting the newborn's head. The design of infant and toddler loungewear primarily emphasizes comfort and convenience. Representative silhouettes include rompers, jumpsuits, and home sets. The open-front structure allows for easy dressing and undressing of young children. The use of loose-fitting, seamless construction techniques ensures freedom of movement for the child.

The hat silhouettes for infants in Spring/Summer 24 can be divided into two main directions: daily wear and outdoor wear. Infants' bonnets, knitted turban, and ruffled mop hats are representative silhouettes, focusing on soft, breathable materials and protecting the newborn’s head. Outdoor functionality is also emphasized, with styles like the caps and wide-brim sun hat designed to shade the face and head from sunlight. The unique shape of the biomimetic hat brings a playful element to the infantswear.

This report will introduce the hottest silhouette trends for knitted hats, including granny’s balaclava, fuzzy hats, ear beanies, versatile hooded scarves and earflap hats.

Baseball cap is a fashion item for all the seasons. Based on the aesthetic of outfit and ergonomic properties, this report pays attention to pattern design, creativity and functionality of baseball cap. Besides, the revival of American vintage also becomes a new trend.

The Charm of Sports -- The Pattern Trend for Kidswear

Geometric stars in contrast colors divide the knitwear into blocks. Irregular colorful triangles are extended toward different directions to create a piece of retro and interesting partywear. Fancy and orderly geometric shapes show unique charm.

In the post-epidemic era, the entire world is waiting for the awakening of design concept in China. Cultural confidence and consumption upgradation inject powerful aesthetic energy, which leads to the birth of a healthy, positive and sustainable design ecology. Wabi-sabi aesthetics neglect the current consumerism. Every ancient, shabby and even destroyed thing has it own story. We should empty and purify our souls to accept and watch this world from a new perspective.

The theme of Fanatic Techwear is filled with the futuristic and scientific feel. Combining with the latest color combinations of top brands, this theme is further divided into four parts: Too-cool Error Code, Hot-blooded Warrior, Industrial Wasteland and Space Radiance. When the human civilization and global resource come to the end, stylish youngsters are wearing technical and functional workwear to become female warriors, interpreting a distinctive decadent aesthetic.

A/W 22/23 baseball hat pays attention to the outdoor life and the pursuit of comfort and individuality. Soft-touch fabric, warm texture, color blocking and individualized details enliven the baseball hat and find a balance between functionality and styling.

In this modern urban lifestyle with faster pace, practical, comfortable and individualized streetwear is loved by more people. Meanwhile, long-restricted people are willing to escape from city and embrace the nature, which forms a commuting and outdoor high-street style. Practical pocket design, handmade dyeing, functional fabric, and heterogeneous splicing endow daily items with diverse practicality and futuristic fashion.

Pattern is essential for any kind of fashionable hat design. S/S 2022 patterns apply richer colors on flower or geometric elements to show a more stylish expression. With the unlocking of many places at home and abroad, the Escapism leads to the rising heat of travelling and brings impact to the clothes market. Based on the vacation style, this report presents various pattern expressions and brings new design directions to this new season's vacation theme through following five elements, Chinese hand drawing, geometric patterns, hand-drawn blue dyeing, impression beach and tropical ambience.

Accessories play an increasingly important role in clothing collocation. Brand effect keeps influencing consumers' purchase. "Less is more" still holds true in clothing. People will pay more attention to the utility of products, and durability and multi-occasion will affect their shopping.

Consumers get used to increased time spent at home, so the demand for comfort and minimalism strengthens the importance of core items. Designs develop toward durability and multi-occasion application. Soft accessories will shine brightly after the pandemic.

After the pandemic, design will focus on providing solutions or emphasizing lifestyle changes, and cater to utility concept by versatility, and pay attention to accessories of the upper body. Practicality and versatility will be the key to creating fashionable items. Adaptive designs will prevail after the pandemic.

Fabric and detail of accessories are deeply influenced by fashion trends and decorative designs. Designer brands also interpret classic accessories through brand-new techniques. They focus on elegant feminine details, including traditional and avant-garde elements. Comfortable plush and individual quilted fabric create items fit for the extreme weather.

As "restraint" is increasingly prevailing, simple design will grow in A/W 21/22. Home exercising, the horror style, Bauhaus minimalism, outdoor modular design and dystopia will run through the A/W 21/22 sport market. A single color and small-scale color decorations are used, breaking the restrictions of season and fashion trends. Inspired by Stone Island and the collaboration collection of ROKSANDA x lululemon, warm or cold tones are complementary to neutral colors, presenting a bolder autumn palette. In the new season, color is closely tied to the fabric quality. More accurate quantification of color through fabric to clothing is our appeal for sustainability in the sportswear market. Colors fit for the whole year are explored.

Under the trend that clothing advocates minimalism and feminism, the maximalist aesthetics will find a breakthrough in apparel category of small proportion. According to related data, the economic slowdown and the rising of living cost have not affected young people's consumption enthusiasm, and cosmetics and culture and art products are selling well. This is the "the lipstick effect". (Please check details in Fetish Young Women -- The Accessory Trend for Women's Socks) As a functional accessory in cold season, accessories can be matched with garments, and optimize the consumption experience. In A/W 21/22, maximalist patterns will add novelty to scarves, socks and gloves, and the de-branding high-quality products will be favored by pragmatist.

Fishermen hat is also called as bucket hat. With a bucket top and a sloping brim, it was originally used by Irish fishermen and farmers as a rain shelter. The hat can be folded into a pocket, very portable. Therefore, it was gradually accepted by the British upper class for outdoor sports such as hiking, hunting and fishing. Nowadays, many fashionistas wear fisherman hats in street snaps, and various brands have pushed avant-garde hats to the fashion stage. The fisherman hat has changed from a practical accessory to a fashion item. In S/S 2021, after innovation and reshaping, the fisherman hat will present brand-new designs, especially the exaggerated proportion, decorative feeling, new femininity and versatility.

The bucket hat gains traction on Instagram, street snaps and catwalks. The bucket hat originates from Donegal in 1990. Nowadays, the bucket hat has evolved to be stylish and directional.