Recreating a Silly 1940's Hat // Floral Tilted Toppers

Today I'm recreating a vintage hat style seen in one of my Alden's mail order catalogs from Spring/Summer 1946! Is it ridiculous? Yes. Do I want to wear it here in suburbia just for the looks on folks faces? Also yes. Follow along as I make what Alden's called a "Bewitching Floral Disk"...

A terminology note, the term fascinator did not exist in the 1940's! All hats were just...hats. From Wikipedia: "The use of the term "fascinator" to describe a particular form of late 20th- and early 21st-century millinery emerged towards the end of the late 20th century, possibly as a term for 1990s designs inspired by the small 1960s cocktail hats, which were designed to perch upon the highly coiffed hairstyles of the period. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a use of the word (in quotation marks) from the Australian Women's Weekly of January 1979, but here it appears to have been used in a slightly variant sense, to describe a woman's hat incorporating a small veil (in other words, a cocktail hat). However, the term was certainly in use in its modern sense by 1999." Fun facts!

My Pinterest board of hats:   / hats-hats-hats  
A tutorial for how to make the black velvet pillbox: http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.co...
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Millinery wire purchased from Humboldt Haberdashery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HumboldtHab...

Vintage flowers and buckram bases from A Pink Swan: https://www.etsy.com/shop/APinkSwan

Velvet tubing ribbon from Rolz of Trim: https://www.etsy.com/listing/98515000...

Petershams, a UK based hatting supplier: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Petershams

Music and Sound Effects from Epidemic Sound.

Where I get my pattern drafting paper: http://atlaslevy.com/Paper_c_13.html (not sponsored)

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First, a disclaimer: So many of you have kindly offered to send me things, including vintage items you may have inherited, and I am so honored you would think of me and of course I do adore vintage treasures, however, unfortunately I only have so much storage space currently! So there is a chance that if something just wont work for me, or doesn't fit me etc, that I may not be able to keep all of your lovely things. Please only send things if you are okay with the possibility that I may donate items I just cannot keep. If you would prefer I put things that I can't keep into the TCH Etsy shop to help raise funds for me and the channel, please specify this in a note or letter in your parcel. Thank you so much!

Bianca Esposito
PO Box 632177
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163

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