If you're looking for sheer elegance in silhouette, you'll find it with The Persian Envoy Dress Winter Hat, gorgeous and warm in nothing less than 100% genuine Persian lambs wool. The Envoy is fully lined and has a woolen pull-down ear band for added protection. A winter hat with the same shape is The Diplomat. Made of tough, plush sheepskin shearling, The Shearling Diplomat Winter Hat design allows you to pull the fur trim down around your ears and neck for extra warmth. For another version of The Diplomat, look to The Sherpa Dress Winter Hat, made of synthetic Sherpa fabric. You get the same distinctive (and quilt-lined) traditional silhouette, with hidden fold-down ear flaps in warm melton weave, and (like The Mouton Diplomat in faux fur) it's offered at a terrific bargain price.

Even serious sportsmen, winter fishermen, hunters and other people who refuse to come in out of the cold need solid winter headwear. Thank goodness for The Taslan Rabbit Aviator from Crown Cap and The Bailey Sportsman Oilskin Cap! The latter is a 4-panel trooper, made of genuine oilskin, and lined with wool felt, giving full protection and warmth under the harshest of weather conditions. If it's wet, windy and generally mulish weather you're facing (but not actually life-threatening), you'll do well with that rugged waxed cotton outdoorsman cap called The Ranger, also from Bailey Hats.