Sailor hats

I’ve been looking for sailor hat tutorials. I’ve found two of them. One is from the egl community on LJ. The other is a vintage millinery tutorial.

I was actually thinking about using a straw boater’s hat but it’s so hard to find. I decided to make my own hats because of that. I’d be experimenting with a prototype based on what those two tutorials have written. The first one is the Breton sailor hat (if I recall correctly) and the other would be the tam-o-shanter type. The first one will be a tiny version (as in the egl comm tutorial) and the other would be an actual tam-o-shanter for me.

I have old clothes which will not be used ever and I am getting cloth from them so that at least they’d be cloth prototypes, not just paper ones. Also, because my clothes don’t have stiff cloth I’d have to use the ‘almirol’ method to make them stiffer. Almirol would the mixture of hot water and starch and when you apply that mixture on cloth, it will be stiff. Just so the sailor hat would have shape. The tam-o-shanter type — I might leave it alone, go without the almirol. It’s a bit floppy anyway, I think.

After the sailor hat, I’d try to make a tiny top hat for Oui Hopefully something that matches the color of her skirt. I might accidentally get the wrong shade of red.