Chapo-turban

This chaperone from a set of medieval theatre hats is more Arabian Nights than medieval.

The fabrics that have been chosen along with the beads and sequins totally change the look of this headgear.

It now needs to be used for a character out of the stories of the Arabian Nights.

What's left of the fabric hangs down the back of the neck and is covered in sequins.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your point of view, there was no genie in the lamp.

A hat! a hat! my Kingdom for a hat!

A mock Tudor period hat 

Whilst the correct shape, the materials are wrong and proportion a little exaggerated, although I have no doubt people in the period did add lots of flashy bits to make them stand out.

This hat came as part of a job lot of theatrical medieval hats I purchased via eBay.

Perfect for your Shakespearian play.

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!", said Richard not me but King Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth, at least according to Sheakspear.

Hat Blog 4 years onward

Back on the 17th May 2015 I made my first post to this blog and said 

 "I will post a picture of me in one my many hats every week, never the same hat until I run out of hats which should take me to around 2017 with the hats I have at the moment, after that who knows" 

It's now 2019, I have continued well past 2017 posting a hat almost every week, I now believe I have enough hats to take me into 2020, after that who knows

During this time blogger stats say my most read post was one titled medieval baseball cap, a post about a robin hood style, bycocket that can be worn backwards like some people wear baseball caps

The most popular themes seem to be my post about my more usual hats and also oriental hats, I assume this is because most other hat styles are well covered elsewhere.

I also intend to start adding a few informative posts.

I Stole Gandalfs Hat

This is felt wizards hat, grey in colour similar to Gandalf's from the Lord of Rings/The Hobbit films and images.

Apparently, the name Gandalf comes via Tolkien from a Norse mythology name meaning staff man or wand elf.

Gandalf wore the grey hat before he became head of the Middle Earth wizards, while he was the Grey Wanderer, the Grey Pilgrim, Greyhame, Gandalf the Grey, among many other names which don't contain the word grey.

The hat will soon be adopted by a character I play in lrp.

The hat was purchased from Leonardo Carbone.