Project: Tall-crowned straw homburg

Another hat-making pictorial for As You Like It, which opens this Saturday night!

Costume designer Anne Kennedy had seen several hats she loved for the character of Corrin--some in her research images, and some on actual people she saw in the street. Ultimately, what she wanted for this man (whose clothes are distressed, and he lives in the woods) was a battered tall-crowned homburg with essentially a cattleman's-crease crown shape.

This was quite a fun project to pull off! ( photos behind the cut )