How The Small Beanie Hat Went High Fashion

In late September, a line of models, beautiful, tall and heavy, weave down the runway for Margaret Howell’s Spring/Summer 2020 show. On their bodies: off white surging trousers, outsized work shirts in reminder lemon and teal, light-weight parkas and cubic suits with socks force over the trousers. On their heads: very little linen skullcap hats turned up higher than the ears.

The same scene vies out at Gucci every week later in....