Millinery

This project was made during a university module. We were asked to pick theme, and choose hats from that theme to recreate. This module was more about learning technique and method. After watching Notting Hill (1999) and laughing at Hugh Grants character pretending to be a journalist from Horse & Hound, I decided on “Horse & Hat” as my theme. I looked at hats surrounding the equestrian world. I also chose a colour theme of royal blue and old gold for cohesiveness. We were requested that we have at least: one hat with a buckram base, one sinamay hat, one felt (velour) hat, and one flat-pattern hat. So I made: a royal blue dressage top hat with a buckram base, royal blue ten-gallon (velour) cowboy hat, an ascot hat with a royal blue sinamay base with a sin may gold bow with a basket weave, and then finally I attempted a striped silk jockey hat in bothe royal blue and old gold.

Photographs taken by April Johnson

This is the Dressage hat. I took more inspiration from victorian woman riding hats. The buckram was moulded on a hat block, then covered in silk satin. The headband is a slightly darker blue moire ribbon. The veiling was hand dyed, to be a matching r

Ten-gallon cowboy. I looked at vintage stetsons and also archival images to recreate as best as I could. The velour capelin was blocked on a Bowler hat block and then and then when partially dry, the crease was done by hand. The headband is in match

Both the brim and the crown were blocked. Once blocked, and unable to find the correct colour, I dyed the hat with oasis spray. For the headband, the gold sinamay was folded, so that no edges were visible, and hand sewn into the crown. For the bow, s

This is inspired by a vintage jokey hat. The hat is made of silk, with some interfacing inside to provide a bit more structure. The headband provides more stiffness and also feature a moiré effect. The brim was sampled using buckram, cardboard and p

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