This November 24 the Kings arrived at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, where Carlos Gustavo and Silvia de Sweden were waiting for them, within their first state trip to the Scandinavian country.With a layer decorated with hair, long gloves and red dress (all signed by Carolina Herrera), in the photo of the welcome a detail stands out: the headband-urban in a red tone (from the Spanish brand Cherubina) that crowned the attire of Letizia.The protocol marked the label and specified, for them, head covered by a hat or similar.Why then Note's headdress attracts so much attention?

The truth is that Letizia herself is not especially devoted to this accessory, as she pointed out in Vanity Fair the hat Reyes Hellín, settled in Seville and the only official distributor of Philip Treacy and Stephen Jones in Spain, the preferred marks of the British court.Doña Letizia's "disinterest" for the hats ("a thorn that I have stuck") is because it has no habit: "I could look wonderfully.But it is not left.In England they don't understand why he doesn't wear a nice hat with how beautiful it would be ".

Letizia happens like many Spaniards.Of English inheritance, in our country the headdress does not have so much cultural roots (and that we have the 10th position in exports of footwear and hats in the world).Perhaps from there its visual impact: we do not have the culture of the headdress or the referents of the British around this piece.Let's think that your queen has taken more than 5.000 hats in the last 50 years and that figures like Philip Treacy - welded with the order of the British Empire - design jewel pieces that can reach five figures.But something seems to be changing in our country and is increasing.Fashion anticipated a while ago, the fashion business economic news portal: “In recent years there has been a boom of the headdresses in Spain and a fragmented market has been developed with a varied offer, which faces challengesas the seasonality of sales, price or competition of large companies.The boom of the headdresses arrived in Spain in recent years after an internationalization process mainly inspired by England and the fashion of royalty.Initially the pioneer region in this fashion was Andalusia, and then expanded to the rest of the country with style brushstrokes of each province ”.

Cherubina is a good example of this phenomenon.He jumped to fame when Queen Letizia took one of her headbands with veil in the celebration of the prestigious order of the jarretera in Windsor in 2019 and is already one of the firms she resorts when she needs to take touched.This Sevillian firm, led by the sisters Ana and Lucía García, had long been forging a name on social networks (Instagram is the perfect showcase for emerging brands) but, as they told Vanity Fair, "Cherubina has reached more women thanks toLetizia, but the level of demand has also increased ".

Also the firm Pablo and Mayaya, María Nieto or Mabel Sanz have become relevant teachers thanks to the impact that Doña Letizia brings them into their commitments abroad.Among the Spanish on the rise is also Mimoki, of headdresses made under commission, created by Ana María Chico de Guzmán, and who has played famous guests such as Amaia Salamanca, Elena Cué or Carla Goyanes at the wedding of Carlos Cortina and Carla Vega Vega-Penichet, or Carolina Adriana Herrera, Andrea Pascual or Eugenia Martínez de Irujo.Verbena Madrid sells sewing headbands and as you can buy or rent online or in your showroom in Madrid under previous appoint.

Hats-Enchufe, Internet memes and other slips: headdresses that were headlines

The headdress is an element as English as the tea ritual, the Big Ben or the famous British phlegm.It is a matter of protocol (something also very English): women should always wear hats in formal events.Hence the enormous amount of headdresses, caps, arrangements and hats that Isabel II herself has worn over time, not always with the same impact.

Helco -shaped with pearls, the hat inspired by the Queen's Tudor for the investiture of Prince of Wales in 1969 was designed by Hartnell and Simone Miman Miman.Had a great impact at the moment."Hartnell was very interested in adapting historical clothing to modern times, particularly for the royal family," said Michael Pick, author of Hartntell's biography, in The Guardian.“The dresses they wore were all quite short for the time and had to have something that was balanced with the outfit.I wanted something that reflected the story of the Castle of Caernarfon (where the act was held), so the Tudor motive comes from there ".

In June 1977, Isabel II celebrated her silver jubilee.The Royal Hatter Frederick Fox designed for her a cap from which 25 pink bell flowers with green silk stems that symbolized their 25 years of reign.It was, perhaps, the original proto-meme, long before Twitter existed: in an article by The Guardian the Labor Parliamentarian Neil Kinnock described the queen as "a lady with a pink hat that looks like a switched on a disconnected" and in the WashingtonPost, Sally Quinn described the color of the queen's whole as "squeaky and not very elegant".Another of his most commented hats was the one he chose for the opening of the British Parliament in June 2017, in the middle of the Brexit storm: a blue design with yellow flowers that remembered the flag of the European Union.A message?Apparently not: "A Stella (McLaren, the creator of the piece) and it never occurred to us that people could think that we were copying the flag of the European Union," the queen's dressing room, Angela Kelly, wrote in herMemories, The Oher Side of the Coin."It was a coincidence but, going, it caught our attention and certainly made us smile.".

In the English royal family there are more examples of hats that caused a sensation.Probably the most famous in recent years was the Beige oval decorated with a great loop, creation of Philip Treacy, which perched on the head of Princess Beatriz de York at the wedding of Prince Guillermo and Kate Middleton in 2011.He unleashed on the Internet: everything was called from a toilet seat to the mythical British twizzler turkey ruldays."There was a time when I thought I would meet my head in a spicy outside the London Tower," Treacy said about that reaction in BBC Radio 4."But it was a very modern hat and modernity is always unusual".

Also commented was also the pompon of Eugenia Kim that Kate Middleton took in her tour of Scandinavia in 2018: so much that Kensington clarified later that the hair was synthetic.

Meghan Markle, meanwhile, was the focus of comments during his stage as a senior member of the royal family.During his 2018 tour, Meghan and Prince Harry were received at Fiji with a traditional ceremony known as Veiqaravi Vakavanua."No one is allowed to wear anything in their heads or have something above the head, like an umbrella," journalist Rebecca English had tweeted before the ceremony.The Duchess of Sussex attended a Stephen Jones hat, which unleashed a storm of internet disapproval.

It wasn't the only time.The Duchess of Sussex wore a Panama -like straw.Thus dressed, I could not access the real box because the cowboys are not allowed (who had that day) and also the clothing code marks that tennis spectators do not wear a hat out of respect for people sitting behind.

Beyond royalty, there is a hat that unleashed a great controversy and almost a diplomatic conflict: the Salacot helmet, popularized by the British colonizers, which in 2018 the then first American lady Melania Trump took during a safari in Nairobi (Kenya).A gesture that was perceived as an image of racism.

As commented as hats has been their absence.Diana de Wales was known for getting rid of the protocol when she did not make sense and although the members of royalty should use hats and gloves on formal occasions, she used to do without them, because they made her more accessible, as inOne occasion reasoned: "You can't hug a child with a hat".

But if there is an iconic hat in history, it is probably the pink pill-box that Jackie Kennedy wore the fateful November 22, 1963, on the day of her husband's murder, US president JFK.That was a Chanel design of the autumn-winter season of 1961-1962, made especially for her in the New York workshop Chez Ninon, a perfect formula between Parisian style and American handmade.According to William Manchester in the death of a president (1967) JFK himself asked his wife to be splendid that day in Dallas: "All those rich republicans will be, with their diamond bracelets and their vision coats.You have to seem as wonderful as they are, but simple.Teach them what is true style, "he said.That Pill-Box crowned its image.While Jackie's suit remains, uncleaSix hours, in a secret place in Maryland), the hat disappeared: he must have lost himself somewhere between the Parkland hospital in Dallas, where the presidential marriage was treated (and where the president's death was certified), and the White House.