poke bonnet 1840

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flapper video's

chinese headdress

This antique Chinese eight immortals child crown headdress hat dates from the 1920s. It is all hand stitched, made of colorful silk fabrics, with raised padded satin stitch embroidery work. There is a cut out scalloped tiara crown front panel, with an appliqued butterfly, beading and eight immortal figures stamped out of a sheet of silver and covered in a gold wash attached onto the front. They represent high, noble character and vast spirit. There is a wind flap draping panel covering the back of the neck for warmth. This unusual unique shaped hand crafted hat has a detailed 3 dimensional cut out decorative design, with colorful silk tassel trim and beading. It is fully lined in a blue cotton fabric inside. http://www.1860-1960.com

victorian headdress

This antique Victorian era brown straw silk bow bonnet fancy hat headdress dates from the 1870s. It is made of a decorative scalloped woven brown straw, with a large wired brown silk ribbon bow trim on the top, with a gold tone metal jewel encrusted clasp in the center and floral brown berry trim accents hidden behind. This sweet fancy hat headdress bonnet has a small wired frame and is created in a crescent oval shape worn across the top of the head in the style of a headband. http://www.1860-1960.com

silk bonnet 1840

1840's Black Striped Silk and Pink Quilted Silk Soft Bonnet with Original Attached Red Hair Curls!! http://www.antiquedress.com

village hat shop gallery

i found this amazing gallery online!!!..all about hats..23 chapters and 193 images http://gallery.villagehatshop.com/gallery/

THE MODE IN HATS AND HEADDRESS
By R. Turner Wilcox

R. Turner Wilcox's THE MODE IN HATS AND HEADDRESS, published in 1945, is a scholarly masterwork of headwear fashion and history. Understand that Ms. Wilcox is not only responsible for the text, but is also the illustrator of the 193 plates appearing below. If the illustrations are not impressive enough, reading her key words and phrases for these twenty-three chapters give some idea of the depth of her knowledge on this frequently arcane subject.

cloches

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a crochet cloche tutorial

cloche hat

The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s.^[1] (Cloche is the French word for bell.) Caroline Reboux is the creator of the cloche hat.
Cloche hats were usually made of felt so that they conformed to the head.^[1] The hat was typically designed to be worn low on the forehead, with the wearer's eyes only slightly below the brim.^[1] By 1928-1929, it became fashionable to turn the brims on cloche hats upwards. This style remained prevalent throughout the early 1930s until the cloche hat became obsolete around 1933-1934.

Often, different styles of ribbons affixed to the hats indicated different messages about the wearer. Several popular messages included: An arrow-like ribbon which indicated a girl was single but had already given her heart to someone, a firm knot which signaled marriage or a flamboyant bow which indicated the wearer was single and interested in mingling.^[2]
Cloche hats' popularity and influence were overwhelming. Couture houses like Lanvin and Molyneux opened ateliers to join milliners in manufacturing the hats.^[1] The hats even shaped hairstyles: the Eton crop (the short, slicked-down cut worn by Josephine Baker) became popular because it was ideal to showcase the hats' shape.^[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloche_hatA straw cloche 1920 http://www.1860-1960.com/

A velvet cloche 1920
A cloche from 1920 , straw with embroiderie

timely tresses

ooooh my god!!!..i just discovered..Timely Tresses..its all about Historic Millinery from the Regency through Civil War Eras. Theve got patterns and kits, straw forms, ties and trims, hair dressing. But also they tell us a lot about the history!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!! http://www.timelytresses.com/
Patterns
a comb
Millinery flowers and berries

lilly Daché

Lilly Daché was a Milliner ( a hat maker that not only sell and design hats but also dresses and hat trims etc) and a fashion designer.

She was born in France (1904) and moved to the United States, there she workt at a milleners shop at Macy's in New York (with Suzanna Talbot and Caroline Reboux). Later she workt at The Bonnet Shop in New York, saving enough money to purchase the shop from owner, she was 25. In 1928 she built ..Lilly Daché Building..in New York.

At the time hats were more important than dresses ( a dress was expencive, so you could better buy a hat, and change the hat for the occasion) She became a top milliner!!..making cloche hats, snoods, caps, draped turbans. Becoming verry famous!!. Designing hats for hollywood movies.

She was a verry busy women. In 1937 she added accessories, fragrances and dress to her shop. In 1946 her own clohing line. In 1949 stockings, cosmetics and coats. In 1950 she made an collection of hats that were ready to wear.

Great heights of chic and absurdity were achieved by the milliners of the day: tiny doll's hats perched over one eye, two-tone "Persian" turbans stuck with jewelled daggers, pom-poms of mink or marabout; Daché's hats were amongst the most outrageous of all. (http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Ch-Da/Dach-Lilly.html)

making a bonnet

this one i found on hyves van mareth zie http://victoriaanse.hyves.nl/



this one i found myself hihi

tammy tutterow ribbon work

Baby to Bride Handkerchief Bonnet

Caroline Bonnet

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