Ladies with Really Big Hats

[Lillemor]

I love hats. Especially decorated straw hats and I wanted to decorate some but I can't even bear to wear the simple, unadorned straw hat I own. I can only bear to wear a knit hat for longer times in the winter. Anything else drives me nuts and makes my scalp itch. Hats on a hot day wrecks havoc on my scalp.

 

[Lillemor]

This hat isn't quite as excessive as some of the others, but the gown is absolutely gorgeous...

That hat and everything she's wearing is so beautiful. I love that era but it would be difficult to wear styles pre 1920s unmodified today for day wear.

 

[Warbaby]

I have to digress and post one more photo of a little girl in a big hat because her fur-trimmed, caped coat and matching muff are so wonderful:

 

[Miss Sis]

This is very like a hat my Great Grandmother has on in a picture of her as a child! That would have been in the 1890s. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of it or I would post it.

She apparently had a real thing about hats her whole life. I think THAT hat must have started her off! lol

I've also just realised how like my Grandmother the little girl in the picture is. It was her mother who had that style of hat.

 

[Paisley]

Beneath those plumes, this hat looks suspiciously like a basket...

I see that model is still available:

It even includes hair.

 

[Warbaby]

I see that model is still available:

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[Warbaby]

This big hat is not as outlandish as some of the others, but her matching ermine ensemble is so drop-dead gorgeous that I'm posting it anyway. The jacket with its ermine tail decoration is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful pieces of clothing I've ever seen.

 

[HadleyH]

Yes, Hadley, little girls did indeed get topped with big hats now and then:

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That is the cutest hat Warbaby thank you for posting!




...and Warbaby, please stop it with the ermine :rage:

 

[chanteuseCarey]

modern ladies in big hats

a FL member posted a flicker link from a gals pics of costume con. Love these big hats and gowns!

 

[Warbaby]

a FL member posted a flicker link from a gals pics of costume con. Love these big hats and gowns!

I say Bring Back Big Hats!

 

[Warbaby]

My maternal grandmother wearing a big hat, c.1918:

 

[Tinseltown]

lol....

 

[Warbaby]

lol....

I knew there must be a reason why they wore those big hats...

 

[Warbaby]

Time to take a break from the Really Big Hats and have a look at some of the hair styles that supported them:

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Caricature of Audrey Hepburn in a big hat..

And yes it has a bird and some furry things...

 

[chanteuseCarey]

big hat worn on the 4th of July

This pic was taken and appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on the 5th. In the newspaper the photo was printed in blk&wht, but in color on their website. My husband's, mine, and our daughter's outfits and hats are all modern pieces. It was for a victorian themed 1908 Afternoon Picnic at the Pardee House in Oakland, CA.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

to go with a really big hat...

I want hair like Helena Bonham Carter's in "Room with a View" and "Howard's End".

Okay, I'll settle for Emma Thompson's (as Helena's sister) hairdo in "Howard's End"..

 

[miss_elise]

i was just going to ask about hair to go under the hats...

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Here is my version of Emma Thompson's "HE" hair for an Edwardian event we recently attended.

i was just going to ask about hair to go under the hats...