The Summer of the Big Floppy Hat
Celebs have gone big and floppy in this hot hot summer heat. The heat has been bad but the hats have been fabulous. Here are a few more examples of celebrity floppy chapeau to feast your eyes on.
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Celebs have gone big and floppy in this hot hot summer heat. The heat has been bad but the hats have been fabulous. Here are a few more examples of celebrity floppy chapeau to feast your eyes on.
Read MoreWhen Britain’s Queen, Elizabeth II, crossed the Atlantic last week to visit Canada and speak at the United Nations in New York, all people could talk about was her hats. I can see why. The lady has 500 of them and they are all pretty terrific.
Read MoreI love South Africa. I hate the vuvuzelas with that annoying undercurrent of buzzing bees they lend to every match, but I love the enthusiasm of the fans and the amazing outfits they put together. I particularly love, guess what— yes, the hats. Here’s a gallery of some of my favorites.
Read MoreThis drawing by Sveta Doroshevan just stopped me dead in my tracks. Sometimes, a picture of a hat is even better than a hat. There’s a whole collection to devour.
Read MoreLady Gaga sported this one recently in Las Vegas, at the Consumer
Electronics Show where Polaroid announced her as their chief creative
officer. Fabulous! Here's more of her hats for your viewing pleasure.
Rumor has it that Lady Gaga has asked London based designer and milliner to the stars, Philip Treacy, for an internship because she wants to learn the business, and that he is giving the idea serious consideration. Turns out she wants to not only wear hats but to learn how to make them too
Read MoreThe Kentucky Derby is over. The race has been run. The julips have been drunk and the hats have been worn. This one, shading the head of three time US men’s figure skating champion and Sundance Channel celeb, Johnny Weir, caught my eye. I am loving Johnny’s good-natured, up-front, androgynous style, and the hat is just fabulous.
Read MoreWith the release of Disney’s new version of Alice in Wonderland , The Mad Hatter is in the news again,along with Alice, The Red Queen, The Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit and the rest of the down down the rabbit hole gang. Maybe I am simply mad as a hatter myself. Have a look at all these Mad Hatter hats available on the internet. As Alice would say, it is all just ” curiouser and curiouser.”
Read MoreBilly Collins is absolutely my favorite contemporary American poet. Read this poem, and you will know why. Yes, it is about hats, but also, it is about much more. Read it. You’ll see.
Read MoreThis week-end’s hat is a stunning chapeau made from a rattle-snake skin. Yes, I said rattlesnake. Take a look. The hat was designed by 22 year old milliner Ashley Lloyd, whose inspiration was a rattlesnake skin given to her by her father. He shot it and skinned it and she turned it into a hat… and a very lovely one it is too.
Read MoreEver since the day some caveman threw an animal skin over his head to keep it warm, headgear has been for protection. And since, as a species, we have been bellicose from the beginning, protective military headgear has been a fact of life ever since cavemen started banging each other over the head with clubs and fighting over territory, food, and females.
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