HATS! and the grrls/bois who love them....

DressyFemme · 02-20-2011, 04:04 PM

OK, so I figured I'd start a thread on the one and only thing that makes THIS Dressy a DressyFemme besides my outfits.... and that is HATS!

I especially love Victorian hats with feathers and satin and the like, but also love old-fashioned looking hats from the Progressive era, church hats and fancy ladies dress hats.

And, seeing a boi in a dapper hat makes this femme swoon!

sigh.......

So... where do you purchase your hats? Where do you WEAR your hats? What's your favorite type of hat? How do you store/clean/maintain your hat collection? Do you get that special kind of feeling in your heart when you put that chapeau on? (I do!).....

*curtseying with my hat*

DressyFemme

Miss Scarlett · 02-20-2011, 04:26 PM

OMG a handsome butch in a Daddy hat makes my knees buckle and sets this femme to tingling all over...

Sparkle · 02-20-2011, 05:31 PM

I LOVE hats!

I love lots of different styles of hat.
the styles from the 40s, 50s and 60s are of particular interest to me.
And if it has feathers, I will probably swoon it.
I have a collection of my Grandmother's hats and handbags.
I keep the hats which are valuable and/or delicate in separate hat boxes, the care depends on the fabric and the shape. Most are pretty low maintenance. Some are very high maintenance (vintage) and will really only live for *so* long outside of a climate controlled museum environment.

The most amazing living milliner, in my opinion, Mr. Treacy
http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/

He also does a "low-end" retail line for a department store in the UK, I have a beautiful red felt fedora by treacy.

Great thread, thanks

LadyFlamezzz · 02-20-2011, 05:33 PM

omg I love DayWalker in any kind of hat or beanie....the thugger the look the more I like it.....I concur with swooning over hats :}

Kätzchen · 01-25-2020, 12:06 AM

I love hats. Back when I was a little girl, both my mom and her mother loved to wear hats and they even bought matching hats for all of us girls in the family to wear to church on special Sunday's or especially on Easter Sunday.

Christian Dior hats were the rage.

My mom stored our hats in the boxes provided for each hat. Then she stacked all our hats inside a vintage steamer trunk, which she found years ago at an estate auction.

See the Christian Dior hat in the picture below? We actually had hats exactly like that style; Christian Dior hats. Mom's hat was a medium shade of beige; her mom's hat was the same color too. Both had Navy blue trim. But the hats they found for us were in a softer shade of what I thought was a pearly, iridescent shade of beige, with navy blue trim. Our little girl hats were trimmed with netting, wrapped and attached to the band around the hat. We wore our special hats on Easter Sunday and we even had matching dresses (our family seamstress made them for us) and gloves. Purses too. I'm fairly certain our shoes matched too, because matching colors across one's whole attire was a fashion specific to that era in time (the late 50's, early 60's).

Oh, those were the days.

Just reading your forum thread tonight on vintage hats gives me the desire to begin a hobby involving hats. I do love hats.

cathexis · 01-25-2020, 05:51 AM

Hats are great!
Camouflage baseball cap or Camouflage Navy Seal's Boonie
Straw Western Hat and one of brown felt that needs reshaping at the shop.

For those really dressy occasions, my dapper Fedora.

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Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: May 2010 Location: . Posts: 15,839 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,711 Thanked 33,387 Times in 10,548 Posts Rep Power: 21474866	Christian Dior <3 I love hats. Back when I was a little girl, both my mom and her mother loved to wear hats and they even bought matching hats for all of us girls in the family to wear to church on special Sunday's or especially on Easter Sunday. Christian Dior hats were the rage. My mom stored our hats in the boxes provided for each hat. Then she stacked all our hats inside a vintage steamer trunk, which she found years ago at an estate auction. See the Christian Dior hat in the picture below? We actually had hats exactly like that style; Christian Dior hats. Mom's hat was a medium shade of beige; her mom's hat was the same color too. Both had Navy blue trim. But the hats they found for us were in a softer shade of what I thought was a pearly, iridescent shade of beige, with navy blue trim. Our little girl hats were trimmed with netting, wrapped and attached to the band around the hat. We wore our special hats on Easter Sunday and we even had matching dresses (our family seamstress made them for us) and gloves. Purses too. I'm fairly certain our shoes matched too, because matching colors across one's whole attire was a fashion specific to that era in time (the late 50's, early 60's). Oh, those were the days. Just reading your forum thread tonight on vintage hats gives me the desire to begin a hobby involving hats. I do love hats.

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