Happy October everyone!
Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of "period dramas" the last few weeks but I've been thinking a lot about hats...women's especially...and wondering when (and WHY) we stopped wearing them!
One of the thing that amazes me about hats is how endless the variety it! Colors, styles, feathers, materials! I wish we'd start wearing them again!
I suppose there's nothing really stopping any of us from wearing them so why don't we? Do I have the "nerve" or the "confidence" or the HUZTSPA???
Oh well they are sooooooooooo much fun!
Here are some of my fav hats from years past that I've owned. Some I still have, some have been transformed into other works of art and some have been sold. (single tear.....)
ENJOY!
These first few photos are of vintage hats I've purchased and re-made....either by cleaning, adding a new band and/or feathers, flowers or whatever strikes me as FUN! Don't you just LOVE the first hat?!?!?! I sold that one right before Easter of this year. The little bird is wearing an antique drawer pull "hat"!
These next ones are my steampunk hats! I bought some GORGEOUS handmade black wool hats (not cheap by the way) and had a great time making top hats for the steampunk crowd! The first photo is how they look before I "have my way" with them!
The next photo shows a hat I made for a wedding! Doesn't he look great??!??!
Just a few more steampunk hats that I had a great time with! (yes that IS a vintage leather belt!)
The next photos are all one hat BUT the customer requested 3 different feathers that would tuck down inside the band for different looks! Which one do you like best! (I LOVE them all but am partial to the pheasant feather!)
These last hats are hats I made from standard hat forms...most of them are mini top hats...which I love...and are held in place with two clips.
I hope you enjoyed this stroll down memory lane!
Send me photos of your favorite hats or hats you wish you owned and I'll post them!
LOVE YOU ALL!
Violette
Noble Studios Ltd.
5 comments:
O wow! These are all glorious! I love the cloche, and the steampunk toppers. yes, whatever did happen to the hat? I'm notorious for wearing them, mostly in the summer because I don't like sunglasses. I have a heap of picture hats. But around here, the only hat I see is a ballcap. Men, women and boys and girls. It's a real shame. Keep making, selling and wearing the hats!
OOOH Rhissanna! I love that black cloche hat too!
I'd LOVE to see your hats! I love those big picture hats and just about swoon when I see someone wearing one!
Thanks so much for the comment!
Love Violette
I love that bird nest hat so much--they are all amazing including the one you can change the feathers in. You are so creative!! Love the blog- new follower....Page from aVelvetLeaf
I LOVE the hats and love the blog- I could die for the birdnest one! New follower- Page from aVelvetLeaf
Well thank you my dear Ms. Page for such a nice compliment!
Love Violette
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