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I want a new bonnet, and need advice. So far, the ones I have seen at Dickens are too rich for my pocketbook ($$$), so I am looking at alternatives.
1. Kim Y. has great tutorials on her site for cutting and then covering a straw hat with fabric and trimmings, and also making bonnets out of Duct tape and cereal boxes, both excellent and practical ideas. $
2. Buying one on eBay and re-trimming it. $$
3. Cutting, shaping, and then spray painting a straw hat a dark color, then trimming it. $
My question is..... would the last one be feasible, and pass muster? I want to be as realistic as possible for the least amount of cash. Does anyone have any advice they could share? I have made a couple bonnets out of straw hats, but they look very summer-y, and I was looking to make something a little more winter-y.
Please advise.
1. Kim Y. has great tutorials on her site for cutting and then covering a straw hat with fabric and trimmings, and also making bonnets out of Duct tape and cereal boxes, both excellent and practical ideas. $
2. Buying one on eBay and re-trimming it. $$
3. Cutting, shaping, and then spray painting a straw hat a dark color, then trimming it. $
My question is..... would the last one be feasible, and pass muster? I want to be as realistic as possible for the least amount of cash. Does anyone have any advice they could share? I have made a couple bonnets out of straw hats, but they look very summer-y, and I was looking to make something a little more winter-y.
Please advise.
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Re: Bonnets
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 8:37 AMWow, duct tape and cerele boxes! Can you post a link to that? You might want to cross post this on the costume construction tribe moderated by Liz Martin. Good luck!
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Sun, August 30, 2009 - 6:05 PMLiz also moderates this Tribe, so cross posting isn't necessary. -
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Re: Bonnets
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 7:45 PMI want a bonnet made out of cereal boxes and duct tape -
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 8:58 PMMade of cereal boxes and duct tape? -
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 11:41 PMI could do that for you. What color duct tape? -
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Mon, August 31, 2009 - 11:34 AMHave you the proper cravat to match? -
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Mon, August 31, 2009 - 1:09 PMOf course. How silly of me. What would one wear with a wood grain, duct tape, cereal box topper? -
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Mon, August 31, 2009 - 4:58 PMGosh. The things you can do with duct tape! {:¬||)
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Mon, August 31, 2009 - 9:57 PM<---has plaid duct tape... ; )
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Re: Rydell's Topper
Tue, September 1, 2009 - 1:23 PM
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Re: Bonnets
Tue, September 1, 2009 - 4:21 PMLynne is teaching a workshop for making buckram based top hats on September 19, 2009 at Sacramento City Dry Goods in Old Sacramento if anyone wants to learn now to make their own.
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Re: Bonnets
Wed, September 2, 2009 - 12:52 AMThe top hat I wear to Dickens was made from two New Year's Eve party hats, the slanted top-hat type: one has the top removed and is lowered upside down on to the other and taped. This gives the elegant nipped in shape and some height. Brim reinforced with wire zigzagged on, whole thing covered with very stretchy crushed velvet to stand in for fur felt or pelt and stretched tight and sewn/glued. -
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Re: Bonnets
Wed, September 2, 2009 - 9:25 AM
Buckram is the bomb for hat making.
Used for hats since the 1500's.
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Tue, September 1, 2009 - 1:21 AM -
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Tue, September 1, 2009 - 4:16 PMJust to note that the cardboard ones do not take hat pins and many bonnets tend to slide off the back of one's head unless pinned. Someone else reminded me that no time is saved in construction compared to one made out of buckram. So, benefits would be slight saving in cost, recycling materials, and possibly waterproof if entirely duct-taped.
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