I just had to show off my new hat by the amazingly talented milliner Rosie Boylan. Made from New Zealand flax in the style of a top hat, it is the summer hat of the year. Not only is it beautifully made and fits me like a glove, I get to support a local designer with some serious street-cred.
Boylan did the hats for The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge and Australia as well as The Sydney Theatre Company (Cate Blanchett is creative director).
Just in case you had forgotten how wonderful the hats were....
Next on my (wish) list is a hat from Italian designer Reinhard Plank. Available from my favourite store in the world (no kidding) Darklands in Berlin.
I have counted nine in my collection from a vintage bowler to a garrison cap to the cheap dog-walking sun-protection straw hat. I can feel an obsession coming on.
Hats off to milliners!
Do you love a hat???
18 comments:
o i do love a hat - my favorite accessory, and a necessity here in the far north, winter and summer.
I'm a huge hat fan - any excuse and whilst my collection is half the size of yours - I'm always looking for excuses to expand it! Her creation for you is awesome :)
Susan- Sounds like two collections of hats to me!
PoppyKettle- Expand! Although quality makes up for quantity, having both sounds good.
Now that's what I call a fine hat .... as well as the one from Darklands. Yes I love hats but don't wear them myself. Perhaps it is time.
Nice topper don. BTW did you know that vogue have a new men's hat pattern that looks kinda cool?
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8869-products-44628.php?page_id=174
Great hat! I do love hats, but I don't think I suit them anymore....apart from a snuggly fleece one with ear flaps and a knitted Nordic style hat for dog walking when it is cold enough not to care!
I love hats & wearing them too. I like the style of yours & that you have a well made one from a local designer!
oh they are all so wounderful! yours eespecially! I made my friend a fedora for melbourne cup day, cant wait to share it with you ^__^
sweeeet hat! i luv Reinhard Plank! i still hate myself for forgetting to buy from the man himself at the Tranoi trade fair in Paris last summer. Next summer i'll make sure to get one of his obras!
I LERVE a hat
Robyn- Thanks! Yes, they are pretty nice.
Valerie- Thanks for the link. They look like good patterns.
Dotty- Sounds like you have your unique style of hats.
Denise- Thanks. Do love to support the locals.
Ruffles- Thanks. Will keep an eye on your blog. I know you studied millinery.
Jp- Thanks! Knew you would be into Plank. Perhaps see you in Paris!
The hat looks great, and you can totally pull it off. Some of us just look stupid in hats, or is it that we haven't found the right ones. Also thank you for the darklands link. I'm drooling over some of the coats on there.
Oui c'est bon les hats! And you look terribly smart in that gorgeous chapeau. Thanks for introducing me to the hat maker, or rather re-introducing as I do remember being wowed by the hats in Moulin Rouge...
I do like the hats, but the hats hate me ^^;
Julien B.
Goodness, Yes!!
I just this morning tried on a sultry black velvet cloche sporting a front chain with what looks like an eighteenth-century disco ball.
My husband is a fedora man, mostly black, often sinister, with ventures into jaunty straws in Summer.
I'm getting out several from the old bureau (along with about two dozen pairs of ancient gloves), for some vignettes for a blog post, "The Property of a Lady."
And your new hat is most becoming. Do you think "flax" will become a genre? I can just see the ads, "Come in and see our new line of Summer Flaxes."
rachel
MainelyDad.- I think its about finding the right hat for your face shape. Also a hat you really like will help to pull it off.
Flock of Tea Cozy- (great name!) I see you are a hat fan too!
Julien- I think its about finding a hat that suits you!
Racheal- Sounds like you area stylish couple!
Love the new hat! And the hat-porn pics, too! I love hats on other people, my sister especially - but they look awful on me! I still have a bunch in the closet anyway. ;-)
Wow, you got a lot of hats! :-)
I love hats! I made my first hat when I was in 6th grade. One of those typical 90's hats in velour with a acetat lining. I wore it to pieces! In the winter-time I wear my basic knitted hats (homemade, of course) and I've just purchased black felt because I wanna try to make a cloche hat.
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