Millinery Class final projects, part one!

[labricoleuse]

My millinery class presented their final projects yesterday, so i've got some great hats to share pictures of!




Kaitlin Fara created this straw fedora with a single divot and a crown fold from polka-dot-knotted straw...


...inspired by this vintage research image of a 1970s fedora variation.


Kaitlin carved this block from blue roofing foam to make the hat.
The hat's band is made from a printed silk jacquard.









This gibus (collapsible opera top hat) was made by Adrienne Corral, who was...


...inspired by this contemporary hat by Topsy Turvy.

Adrienne's still collapses, even though it's got that giant trim element on the front, by use of a baby snap hidden behind it. Check it out!

Fun stuff! More to come, too...!

Comments

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

I really want to learn how to make a gibus. If it wasn't for that whole moving thing, I'd come take your classes.

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

You don't need to move and take my class to learn that! There is an excellent reference in print that you can buy, which tells step-by-step how they were made. It is a book called The Top Hat: An Illustrated History by Debbie Henderson, and in its appendices Henderson reproduces in full instructional literature that Hat Life Publications put out in the 1940s on the methods for making standard and collapsible toppers, to make sure that info wasn't lost. Pick up a copy and give it a go! It's the reference that Adrienne used to make hers.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm putting it on the top of my Amazon list.

I'd still like to transfer into your program.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh no! It's out of print! Sigh.

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

Weird, i bought it this summer, brand new, from the Lockwood Mansion Museum's giftshop in Norwalk, CT. They had a ton of copies so perhaps give them a call if you can't find it used?

http://www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com/