I needed something to wear on my head with the pink stripy dress. Tricorns were in fashion for most of the 18th century, even for women. And women could wear it either big, or the sweet tiny version.
However, I am still not fully up to making a hat from scratch, so I looked through the websites for used clothing items, and found this small (probably children's) hat. (Sorry, forgot to take a photograph from how the original hat looked like).
Then I soaked it in a some leftover starch solution, and pinned the edges up, and let it dry.
It didn't hold it well enough, so I sprayed it throughly with starch spray, and let it dry again.
Added some pink passamenterie to its edges, made a cockade from the bits left over from decorating the dress itself, and added some feathers just for good measure. A nice, colorful ostrich feather never hurts, especially, when we talk about the 18th century.
A kalap néhány kalaptű segítségével marad a fejemen (legalább hárommal).
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