The Hat Thread

[Stella_Omega]

I looove hats!

I have a few vintage fedoras, a Panama, the Gaucho style I'm wearing in my av, and several boxes of girly hats as well-- not that I wear any of those any more, they are going up on my etsy store these days, and from thence onto the heads of lovely femmy ladies, one hopes and an odd sort of top hat that I got at an historical re-enactment, that was made for the Indian Trade. Right now it's covered in gothy deep red roses and burgundy lace.

I've even designed and blocked hats, for a designer during the eighties. This is a bit like the men who design for some idealised goddess, except that I really love real women

In my opinion, small hats work very well for a big head of hair. Of course, a small hat won't keep the sun off your face, and it's hard to wear something silly, feminine, and so purely decorative when you're in sweats and just heading to the grocery store.

I don't do gimmee caps too often... I bet I will this summer, though!

 

[boredVAwife]

I liked the pics you put up about the smaller hats worn to the side. I wear my hair in a pony tail most days so prolly wouldn't work with that too well but gives me food for thought.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I liked the pics you put up about the smaller hats worn to the side. I wear my hair in a pony tail most days so prolly wouldn't work with that too well but gives me food for thought.

yeah they will! You might pull the tail low and to one side, and then see if the hat works on top of it, or the opposite side.

Or, dead center towards the front of your head.

(Love me a woman in a hat)

 

[catalina_francisco]

Hats can be cool on those who know how to wear them well. I remember as a child watching my mother getting ready to go out on special occasions, placing her hat of choice just so before leaving. Your AV is a definate eye catcher.

Catalina

 

[culloden]

Stella, that's a wonderful hat in your av, and it complements your look.

The right hat really is a great touch.

 

[Noira]

Thank you!

I love hats! Honestly, I have some sort of secret fetish for them... I'm really the only person I know who wears them, but I wear them like CRAZY. Style? That doesn't matter. Just give me a hat. I have my flapper hats and my facinators and my newsboy hats and my caps and my floppy hats and my feathered hats and my toques and lacy hats and silk hats and I really want a Peter Pan hat and and and oh dear, I think I'm reaching critical mass!

Right now, I dearly love mini-hats, though I hold a relentless love of various newsboy hats as those go with almost everything I wear... I can't wear my facinators quite everywhere, though I admit I've worn hats of peculiarly interesting style to very out of place functions just because I am not me without a hat gracing my head.

You know how there are certain things that make you feel completely you? For me, that's a hat and a skirt. I feel naked and wrong when I'm not wearing these elements, like the inner me is not showing. As soon as I discovered I wouldn't get in trouble for hats at work (I tested by wearing them on Fridays) I started wearing them a bit more and now people ask what happened to my head if I'm not wearing one.

I don't wear the facinators to work, though. Just the newsboy hats.

EDIT: FEMME HATS ON ETSY LINK PLZ?

 

[Stella_Omega]

was it this link?

http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=fascinator&order=most_relevant&page=0


here's one of my vintage hats.

Here's an adorable little thing; She's calling it "Lolita" but it looks like Eliza Doolittle to me; http://www.etsy.com/listing/68600858/lolita-mini-top-hat-with-butterfly-cameo

Here's a cream colored hat
http://www.etsy.com/listing/19149210/kentucky-derby-party-hat
and gloves to go with it!

And this lady has got to be my favorite milliner on etsy;
http://www.etsy.com/shop/heysailor

 

[the captians wench]

I love hats! I collected vintage hats for a while.

I love wearing fadoras. Especially with a corset and a suit.

And when I made my Elizabethan dress, I made my first hat.

 

[CaresseDArcy]

So glad you started this thread Stella! Your posts on hats were the only thing that made me return to the ridiculous thread that shall not be named herein... well ok, that and some good laughs

I do adore hats, is just a challenge making sure they adore my head ... some I can wear and they look great and some look better on the stand till they find the right head. I haven't perfected the science of this yet Plus, I can't really wear hats to work... fascinators however, how have I missed those?? Brilliant!

 

[Stella_Omega]

I love hats! I collected vintage hats for a while.

I love wearing fadoras. Especially with a corset and a suit.

And when I made my Elizabethan dress, I made my first hat.

Niiiice

 

[midwestyankee]

I am not quite ambivalent about wearing hats, though I wear one in the winter: a leather version of this. This suits my style, which is Moderately Cool Old Fart.

Where I am not ambivalent about hats is the common practice of some men wearing baseball style caps indoors. Drives. Me. Nuts.

 

[Allyourbase]

Oh man, seriously, all these posts about hats... (in this and not-to-be-mentioned other threads ). So wish I could wear them, but it seems i'm not the type.

We need more of them. (Yeah, I know, it would mean ppl like me getting over their shyness concerning wearing hats... sigh)

Still, just dropped by to say: awesome!

*thumbs up*

 

[Stella_Omega]

We need more of them. (Yeah, I know, it would mean ppl like me getting over their shyness concerning wearing hats... sigh)

This is so frustrating!

C/mon, get yourself one of those fedoras that every man wore up until WWII. They look good on everyone-- male, female, child and adult.

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2008/08/katie-holmes-fedora.jpg?1

http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/a/images/Mario.Fedora.hat.jpg

http://greatergoodsonline.com/shop/images/feltfedoracdt2.jpg

 

[Allyourbase]

This is so frustrating!

C/mon, get yourself one of those fedoras that every man wore up until WWII. They look good on everyone-- male, female, child and adult.

For sure, they look awesome. I got big hair though, most hats don't fit or look ridiculous. Maybe something small, with pins or something... hmmm. Though everyone around me would go: huh, what's up with you and fashion?

Hm.

Tiny hats...

 

[Allyourbase]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/11/340x_tiny_hat_thumb_111.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3339/3510866618_566fa7db4f_o.jpg

http://nikkigsblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/tiny-hat.png




tiny hats? anyone?

 

[Allyourbase]

http://images.labelleadresse.com/200/images/articles/intern/chapeaux%2010.jpg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTewFzWHkQ87kqzO-pMjSb74IH919Y2GTzc8pWcVKklyaKgYRO2

http://stopbeingaloser.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nylon_tinyhat3.jpg

ou des petits chapeaux?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Thorstein Veblen on bonnets & tophats

A fancy bonnet of this year's model unquestionably appeals to our sensibilities to-day much more forcibly than an equally fancy bonnet of the model of last year; although when viewed in the perspective of a quarter of a century it would, I apprehend, be a matter of the utmost difficulty to award the palm for for intrinsic beauty to the one rather than to the other of these structures. So, again, it may be remarked that, considered simply in their physical juxtaposition with the human form, the high gloss of a gentleman's hat or of patent-leather shoe has no more of intrinsic beauty than a similarly high -gloss on a threadbare sleeve; and yet there is no question but that all well-bred people (in the Occidental civilized communities) instinctively and unaffected cleave to the one as a phenomenon of great beauty and eschew the other as offensive to every sense to which it can appeal. It is extremely doubtful if anyone could be induced to wear such a contrivance as the high hat of civilized society, except for some reason based on a aesthetic grounds.

 

[the captians wench]

http://images.labelleadresse.com/200/images/articles/intern/chapeaux%2010.jpg

ou des petits chapeaux?

I have one like this, only it has red dotted netting and a cute little emo style heart bobble to decorate.

I can't get my hair big enough to really work it though. It just kind of looks silly on me, but I love it anyway.

 

[where]

for Stella

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4631284263_aab913a904.jpg

 

[Allyourbase]

for Stella

Ohmy. That is lovely. (Though I must say I might be slightly influenced by those nice, nice antlers and that big skull, in the background. )

 

[where]

Ohmy. That is lovely. (Though I must say I might be slightly influenced by those nice, nice antlers and that big skull, in the background. )

heh, the background makes it. can you believe all those victorian stuffed birds and the antlers and skulls were thrown out?

 

[Allyourbase]

heh, the background makes it. can you believe all those victorian stuffed birds and the antlers and skulls were thrown out?

There's nothing better than some good taxidermy if you ask me. Oh no, wait, except for bad taxidermy.

For someone who mainly eats vegetables, my enthusiasm for dead stuffed animals does raise some eyebrows here and there.

 

[where]

There's nothing better than some good taxidermy if you ask me. Oh no, wait, except for bad taxidermy.

For someone who mainly eats vegetables, my enthusiasm for dead stuffed animals does raise some eyebrows here and there.

hahahaha! you should see the stuffed fox mr trb got for christmas. it's like zombie taxidermy.

 

[Allyourbase]

hahahaha! you should see the stuffed fox mr trb got for christmas. it's like zombie taxidermy.

Ohhh, I want zombie taxidermy for christmas too! That is SO cool!

If only because it would make an interesting list for the inlaws...

 

[Stella_Omega]

for Stella

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4631284263_aab913a904.jpg

I kees you!