I have been busy in my millinery studio lately, working to recreate some vintage hats that I have seen in old magazines. Here are two examples that I finished this weekend:
I
had to alter the design a bit on mine (namely, instead of threading the
feather through the felt - which put the feather IN the eye on my
version - I merely tacked it onto the brim with a few stitches) since I
didn't have Madame Dache's original hat block...but here is my version
of this 1942 Lilly Dache hat, featured in LIFE magazine. I blocked mine
over a soap dish. :)
Dache's reasoning on the one eye-covering tilt hats of this period: "Men in uniform, they like their women helpless. So, we knock out one eye of the lady and catch all the men's eyes."
Dache's reasoning on the one eye-covering tilt hats of this period: "Men in uniform, they like their women helpless. So, we knock out one eye of the lady and catch all the men's eyes."
I
recreated this Sally Victor felt tilt hat that I first saw in a 1945
McCall's Magazine. I blocked the felt body over a wooden salad bowl,
& the crown over a circular piece of gladware tupperware. The design
had to be modified a bit to accommodate the thinner width of the
Ringneck pheasant feathers, but overall, I think the effect is just as
striking as the original!
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