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This week Queen Elizabeth celebrated her 94th birthday & I thought it was the perfect opportunity to look at my favourite Top 10 hats of her’s that I love. But I couldn’t narrow it down to just 10….so I’m sharing my Top 15 instead. The Queen wore this green floral hat to Ascot in …
Aintree is fairly early on in the race calendar each year, & it’s nice to see the millinery styles that are worn. Whilst it is not compulsory to wear a hat or fascinator a lot of ladies still do & this often gives us a nod as to what the fashions might be at Royal Ascot …
I know we are already well into 2018…but I wanted to take a look back at the beautiful headwear worn by The Royal Family on Christmas day & decided to share a few of my favourites. Embed from Getty Images The Queen was the highlight of the day in the most beautiful & vibrant …
Last summer, each day of Royal Ascot, I wrote a blog post on all of the wonderful hats & fascinators that we saw there. I choose a favourite Royal Hat of the Day & my favourite overall Hat of the Day. For Day 1, I decided this stunning hat was my favourite. Embed from …
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One week on from Royal Ascot & it’s finally time for me to blog about the gorgeous headwear that we saw there. From dramatic sweeping brims, large show stopping flowers & abstract shapes….this year did not disappoint. Here are just a few of the pieces worn on Tuesday that I liked. Kate wore a white …
On the blog tonight I’m showing you all of the photos of this lovely floral band. The time & patience required to make this band is really quite a lot!!! 🙂 each petal has been cut & shaped by me in gorgeous light paper silk. The leaves have been individually cut & shaped from …
Ok, so I know this is a pretty unusual design. I was going abstract….but actually it’s the technique that I love about this one! Ok, so the base of this is a red tartan fascinator base; and the design is then covered in straw spirals that vary in thickness. This starts as a big reel of thin straw that I’ve then sewn …
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Next up is this gorgeous velvet pill box. This hat is a large pill box hat and is worn quite far back on the head. It is made with a luscious burgundy velvet and a soft pink chiffon band. I think this is such an elegant style & the placing of the hat was inspired by one of the …
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I found this gorgeous blue tweed material and knew I wanted to make a trilby with it; but I wanted to do one with an assymetrical brim. I love how a brim can totally change the style and feel to a hat….. Rather than add a band of ribbon that you get on a tradtional trilby, I decided …
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This is possibly my most famous fascinator, as I wear this all the time and it’s on my profile picture on my twitter feed. 🙂 A heart is my favourite shape; so I love the simplicity of this fascinator yet but also it’s wearability! I made this block myself using buckram and clay to create the perfect shape. …