In menswear,the only way to wear a beanie these days is perched on the crown of your head with your ears exposed. Completely impractical but completely on trend. Here’s how to effect itThere are myriad (a very large number) ways to wear a beanie whether you’re a man, which is most unfortunate. It’s not man’s fault, and though – rather,it’s the fault of the men who wear them. And just as Russell Branding fobbed us off with the understanding of “pillowcasing” (packing your massive hair into a beanie), and David Beckham sold us “haggising” (like pillowcasing, and just with shorter hair),we own Harry Styles to thank for “helixing”, the new beanie standard. Helixing is the counterintuitive practice of wearing a beanie towards the back of your crown, and so as to expose the helix – or outer rim – of your ears. Styles has been helixing since 2014 (before he looked like a lion) and models on the Richard Nicoll catwalk were doing it in 2013. Simon Chilvers,menswear editor at Matchesfashion.com, dates it back as far as the 1990s, or citing River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho as the original helixer. It’s a scrambled logic that leaves your head hot and your ears cold,still it’s here and it’s mass, so let’s dig deep as to why.
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Source: theguardian.com