Today on hat histories we take a quick gander over the millinery work of Hattie Carnegie. Born Henrietta Kanengeiser in Austria (in either 1880 or 1889, sources differ), her family emigrated to New York in 1900. Like so many other milliners I have featured here on hat histories, Carnegie started out working at Macy's, the millinery counter at Macy's sure was a springboard! She opened up her first shop with a business partner (Rose Roth) in 1909, later buying out Rose's share of the company and changing the name to Hattie Carnegie INC in 1919. I feel like the only thing you really have to know about this woman to understand her immediately was that she took the name Carnegie as her own--then the name of possibly the richest man in America at the time she choose it as her new moniker! Clearly she was all in on the "American Dream". Funny enough, even through she became a very popular milliner and fashion designer, Carnegie couldn't sew. She was a designer not a seamstress, and above all had impeccable and discerning taste! From humble beginnings she built her own fashion empire, at one time worth 8 million dollars. Doesn't she sound like the most wonderful woman? Famous for her chic suiting, she even won a congressional medal of freedom from the US government for her updated Women's Army Corps uniform design. Her clothing designs, influenced by the designers she mingled with on trips to Paris, were certainly gorgeous, but as this is hat histories, lets take a look at some... Late 1940's, MET All of my favorite things: Straw hats, velvet, and bees! 1945, MET 1940, MET 1938, MET 1937, MET 1935-1940, MET 1949, MET 1940's, MET Early 1950's, MET University of North Texas University of North Texas 1950/55, UNT 1930?, UNT 1955?, UNT 1950, UNT 1940~, UNT 1955, UNT UNT UNT 1955, UNT UNT It seems University of North Texas has quite the collection of Carnegie hats! I'm jealous, I'd love to add several of these to my own collection for sure! What is it about hats? They are just the most wonderful thing, I can never get enough of them! In fact, I am rather late in publishing this post tonight as I spent all day (literally ALL day) making a hat! Its not even for me...but it's supposed to be a surprise so I'll say no more ;)
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Today instead of looking at a particular milliner's work, let's look into a specific style of hat shall we? Since it's still very wintry outside my window, and I'm about to embark on a new hat project this weekend, I want to look at the fur trimmed tilt hats of the 1940's! I have long coveted a cute fur winter hat, but of course I want a faux fur option and so DIY is going to be the way to go. This style of hat seems to have been very popular in the late 30's and into the 40's and it can be relatively easy to snatch up a vintage one online. Let's take a gander at this cute style of winter topper! It seems even the ladies of 1939 thought a fur hat was a good DIY project! Vintage Vixen $69.99 Avivb $85.00 1939 DecoDiscoVintage $85.00 Raleigh Vintage TheVintageHatShop $58.00 From fur around a short brim, to little balls of fluff, it seems any variety of fur trimmings on a little hat is vintage appropriate! I'll be using wool felt and some more of the faux ermine fur left over from making my latest faux fur collar to make my little tilt hat this weekend. Don't worry, once again I'll be taking photos as I go so you too can make a modern version of a fur tilt hat for yourself! I am hoping to have enough fabric left over to make a matching muff too, but it remains to be seem if I have enough for that. Wouldn't be the cutest set if I could eek out a collar, hat, and a muff? I'll have to see how it goes :)
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Hey Maker! I’m so excited to share this fun and beginner-friendly DIY project with you: a Hedge Witch Hat! With Halloween just around the corner (or maybe you just love a good witchy vibe year-round), this easy-to-sew hat is perfect for adding a bit of magic to your wardrobe. We’ll use soft black felt to...
Sew Easy Hat From Old Sweater: With an old wool sweater and fleece hoodie you can make a warm pill box hat in less than a day. This sweater has several moth holes but is 100% lambswool so it's very soft. Even though it is soft, line the hat with a complementary or con…
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This free basic fleece hat pattern is the base for many of the free warm hat sewing patterns on Fleece Fun. This fleece hat pattern comes in sizes, baby, child, teen and adult! The whole family can enjoy a cozy hat for winter. Master this beginner friendly sewing pattern and you’ll be able to make all...
Source: Frankston Weekly To be honest, hat making has always been somewhat of a mystery of me. Being completely uninitiated in this art, I think that most millinery tools look like somebody combined a magic wand with a dental pick, and what one does with this bizarre combination is completely opaque to me! Source: Damsel in Regress Now, I'm not proud of my ignorance, and I plan to remedy this problem someday when I have more free time. Until then, I take full responsibility when my lack of millinery knowledge causes me to purchase items for which I have absolutely no use. What am I talking about? Here's an example: A couple months ago while I was browsing the nooks and crannies of a local thrift store, this bizarre gadget caught my eye: As probably guessed, the "Original Bügelfix" mounts onto a table with the turn of a lovely heart-shaped screw. Plug the cable into the wall and the round head heats up, just like the bottom of a normal steam iron. Honestly, I hadn't the slightest clue this was actually for hat making! I bought it on a whim since the price was incredibly low—just a few Euros—and I thought it could be used for ironing difficult articles of clothing like blouses with puff sleeves. "Bügelfix" translates to "Fast Iron" or "Quick Iron" (In case you are wondering, the "D.R.P." on the sticker label stands for "Deutsches Reichspatent", that is, a patent dating to before 1945, which gives us an idea of when this device was manufactured.) An old-fashioned plug without the grounding prongs Never make hot-headed decisions, right? Guess this was one of those impulsive buys I've always heard about. Source: Craig Swanson Not even an exhaustive internet search could turn up any information about this curious device, but I did discover two pictures of a model sold over eBay (the listing is now deleted) for which the power cord can be completely detached. And here's a screen shot of an eBay listing from a year ago. Apparently someone bought an iron just like the one I have for 60 Euros, much more than I paid for it. Right now a perfectly usable hat making rarity is just sitting on a shelf in my laundry room collecting dust! Perhaps the time has come when my Bügelfix and I shall part ways... Source: lebabovard.com
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Submitted by: David Y. from Apple Valley, CA "This is my submission for the Spooktacular 2010 costume contest. It is of the "'Hatbox Ghost' from Disney's Haunted Mansion. I made the ENTIRE costume myself using my own patterns etc. The ENTIRE costume was airbrushed by me to give it that ghostly green/blue look (It glows in the dark too!). The required Costume Contest logo is taped to the hatbox I am holding. Thanks for looking, and YOU ROCK SIDESHOW!!!" Spooktacular 2010 - October 25th-31st - SideshowCollectibles.com/spooktacular This costume placed as one of our three Runners-Up!
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Happy October! Something that I look forward to every year is making Elliot a homemade Halloween costume. I make a couple costumes each year, and since it’s almost mushroom season for us— I thought it’d be fun to make a mushroom costume! I’ll be showing you how to make a no-sew mushroom hat that you
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About a year ago I started noticing other bloggers' posts on using light tables with kids. Although they make light tables specifically for kids, I was inspired to ask on our town e-mail list if a former photographer had a table they would be willing to sell of give away. I was pretty excited when someone responded with a homemade one as it seemed perfect for using with kids. We started exploring it just after the winter holidays, when the early evenings were dark and we needed something to perk up our afternoons. This is our most current exploration, and it was a huge hit! For our exploration I used large, flat marbles from the dollar store and wrote lower case letters onto 26 of them using a black permanent marker. On a piece of tracing paper I traced one marble 26 times and wrote a different capital letter into each one, also using the black marker. I did not write the letters in order on the paper, so that Big Brother would need to look for each capital letter. However, for the first exploration I did set up the lower case letter marbles in order to make the matching process a little more clear. (You may notice there are actually 27 circles/ marbles with a star spot added as well.) Big Brother was instantly intrigued before I could even finish setting up, and knew right away he needed to match the letters. He's been really interested in understanding the difference between capital letters and lowercase letters, so combined with the light table this quickly became a high interest activity. As I often do, I gauge a project's success by how long it can engage Big Brother. In this case he spent over half an hour matching the letters and then starting over. We'll be looking for other ways to add to our list of light table ideas. If you use a light table with kids do you have a favorite activity you like to use it for? This post may also have been shared at some of these terrific link parties.
