Robe à la Française - the hat + final result

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So, last post was all about the dress but while I made the dress, I also made myself an tricorn hat. I found really nice hat off the internet:

http://www.victorianhatter.com/page-2-tricorn-hats/
 & etsy store

 But I was not very eager of spending again so much money on the costume that already had required so much money. So I thought.. I will try myself to make hat similar like that. It is not going to be easy and I have no idea how to do it but let's try.

I ordered myself really cheap (I think it was 5-10$) pirate hat thing from ebay and then started to work on it. I used the same green cordon as I used on the dress on the sides of the hat. To stitch it into the place was many hours of work and my poor fingers.. they hurt so much as it required so much strength to push the needle trough the hat (the hat was made of stronger material than expected). Anyway, I had the ribbon at place after a lot of work. 

Then I went to fabric shop and got some smaller feathers. I found nice green ones that fit well with the dress and stitched them into the place. Then the next trouble was the veil at the back. I wanted green one but the shop only had few horrible tones. I got one that I thought was most similar to the dress but it looked so weird when it was done:

Veil added to the hat.

Then my trouble where the rivets on the hat. I tried to find fancier one but couldn't. In the end, like two days before leaving to the larp, I was hopeless but I came to the idea.. I used silver things used for jewelry making and clued them over the usual rivets.

Looks much better, doesn't it?

So, I also got myself black veil for the back and one really nice black veil for the front. I also got two big black feathers that I actually sewed to the hat after I had flown to Sweden (not that going to the larp with this hat has my hand luggage was also quite fun.. I just had that mysterious plastic bag that I hold so lightly as it was fragile and I was afraid of hurting the weathers).

Anyway.. I proved myself that with some time consuming work, I can make random ugly hat into really nice hat.

So, as I said.. I wore the dress on larp but sadly I have none of the pictures taken of me. This year, I wore the dress second time in a masquerade and from that time I do have photos.

 So, the dress, the hat.. :)