Hat making?

[Annalai]

Hi all,

I have been thinking of trying to make some womans hats in tilt style for example for myself.
Anyone here who has made any hats and has advices, websites or know about any good books about hat making?

Annalai

 

[Lauren]

Not really, but if you find out anything let me know. I've been wanting to be an amateur milliner for a while now. I know Vogue has some patterns for some ones out of wool felt, but I have yet to try them out.

 

[Annalai]

Hi,

This is something I found but it is not the thing I am looking for but a start I guess and it is free. http://www.vintagesewing.info/
They have some scanned books about hatmaking from the 20s.

Annalai

 

[SHARPETOYS]

Try this site

This site has many millinery and female hat makers.

http://lists.topica.com/lists/hatchat/read

I'm sure the women would help you.

 

[Renderking Fisk]

Belly, do they have a website?

 

[BellyTank]

Hi Fisk-

You mean Louis Vuitton?
http://www.vuitton.com/

I double dare you to find what you want there...

The website stuff is all rack goods.

The hats/headwear my friend was involved with would have been the 'catwalk -houte couture' gear... not the visors, ball caps and floppy hats that make up the merchandise-wear, like the LV handbags and other crap.

If you look at Stephen Jones' site and the hats there, you'll be getting the idea of her world of hats-

http://www.stephenjonesmillinery.com/

...weird stuff like this-
http://www.stephenjonesmillinery.com/01hats/modelMillinery.php

She also had a spell eith Philip Treacy in London- maybe some of his stuff is more recognisable as hats-
http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/flash/welcome2.html

...or not...
http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/flash/welcome2.html

Lolita works in the one-off, custom, high fashion, high art area of head wear, not the everyday stuff. Probably not yer typical Fedora Lounge fare-

She's a 'hat sculptress', although she knows how to make any kind of hat you could throw at her- all by hand of course. She's well versed in hat construction of all types but it's the weird stuff that gets her noticed famous and working where the money is-

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