Mary wears two hats with this dress. One at the flower show and this one at the garden party. It has an asymmetrical brim, some decorative ribbon and felt flowers.
I picked up this hat for $15 at Charming Charlie. I really liked the asymmetric brim and it was perfect for retrimming.
The original decorations were lightly hot glued on and came off easily.
Next, I hot glued on my own ribbon.
Then I made my own felt flowers using Gertie's tutorial. I made one from 2" wide, one from 1 1/2" wide, two from 1" wide, and four from 1/2" wide (two from shorter length and two from longer).
There wasn't any particular pattern to my arrangement. I just kept moving them around till I liked them.
The roses were super easy to make. I'm usually terrible at this kind of thing but I was really happy with them.
It looks awesome.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend, my husband and I spotted an old hat in an antiques store- we both enjoyed the flair in decorating it :) You managed to capture the same style.
This is so darling! good job i really love this hat
ReplyDeleteI've been picking up wool hats similar to this shape at a thrift shop and antique shop just so I could try something in this style like Mary's hat. One is teal, the other is black. Too bad my dress is lavender. :O
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Beautiful! It's amazing how you can easily take a cheap, fast-fashion store hat and make it into something truly unique. This is making me want to work on a 40s hat idea I've had bopping around my head for awhile... ;)
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