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labricoleuseMore from the event costuming action--this time, a Carmen-Miranda-style turban-hat for a hostess costumed as a rhumba dancer.
So, the base of this is one of those weird little mushroom-head 1960 beret-ish felt hats. It was the only thing i found in our stock that fit my actress' head and, song remains the same, with zero budget and load-out tomorrow morning, pulling a buckram or felt form for a base was not an option. Make-do time. Layered over top of that little felt hat base is a silk scarf i got from stock, tied up into a headwrap-reminiscent shape. The apples were on super-sale at Michaels, and have long wires sticking out of the bottom, which i used to anchor them to the hat. The wires go through the felt, are bent into the curvature of the hat shape, and tacked down with thread. The tiny bunches of grapes ($0.25 each at Michaels with a coupon) have loops at the top of them already, so the apple-wires go through those to hold them on. The feathers are a spray of randomness floraltaped together, and the cherries are vintage ones i pulled off a 1950s hat from stock, also tacked on with thread, and that enormous weird bling on the side behind the bow-knot is one extremely-drag-queeny 1980s earring.
Voila! Quite a hat.
So, the base of this is one of those weird little mushroom-head 1960 beret-ish felt hats. It was the only thing i found in our stock that fit my actress' head and, song remains the same, with zero budget and load-out tomorrow morning, pulling a buckram or felt form for a base was not an option. Make-do time. Layered over top of that little felt hat base is a silk scarf i got from stock, tied up into a headwrap-reminiscent shape. The apples were on super-sale at Michaels, and have long wires sticking out of the bottom, which i used to anchor them to the hat. The wires go through the felt, are bent into the curvature of the hat shape, and tacked down with thread. The tiny bunches of grapes ($0.25 each at Michaels with a coupon) have loops at the top of them already, so the apple-wires go through those to hold them on. The feathers are a spray of randomness floraltaped together, and the cherries are vintage ones i pulled off a 1950s hat from stock, also tacked on with thread, and that enormous weird bling on the side behind the bow-knot is one extremely-drag-queeny 1980s earring.
Voila! Quite a hat.
Carmen's Headdress
Date: 2006-11-03 01:55 pm (UTC)