Friday 15 May 2020

Towel Turban

The Towel Turban 


Basically, wrap a towel around your head in any way that works, rolling and tucking bits in until it holds firm

The is a practical way to dry your hair faster if you still have any.




Wednesday 13 May 2020

Knotted Hanky


The Knotted Hanky

Basically a fabric handkerchief with a knot tied in each corner.


This was a staple emergency hat to protect the British Holidaymakers from the sun when I was much younger. 



I have an image of Grandad wearing one during a holiday.















Tuesday 12 May 2020

Improvised Hats

So during the lockdown, I was challenged to gather a set of photos of improvised hats, i.e. hats made from things I had lying around. 

I managed 5 hats that I think make the grade to be called hats

I will post these over the next few days but here are a couple of ideas that didn't quite make it.


Old Newspaper 
If you nothing else, hold a newspaper to head it will give a bit of temporary protection against the sun or rain.



The Paper Bag 
Not really a hat but still a head covering, a brown paper bag with 2 eye holes, can be used to hold up banks and hide a zit covered face.




Thursday 7 May 2020

Fireman's Helmet



Fighfighters helmets were introduced in the 1830's to help protect them against falling cinders and debris


The firefighter's helmet was originally made of leather, then brass, then cork, then steel, then aluminium, then thermoplastic, then a composite of all sorts of materials each adding different protection against hazard a modern firefighter might face 


In the 1930's as electricity became a hazard so brass was abandoned and cork helmets with a rubber coating were introduced as this one. 

Metal military-style helmets came back in world war II 


Helmet at least in the UK are yellow, but some countries the colour is used to denote rank in the fire service.



This helmet was purchased from an auction site, is very tatty some of the finish as worn off, but it was a bargain purchase.







Thursday 30 April 2020

Button Down Hat

This hat was a brilliant Christmas gift, made by Julie.


Julie has knitted and crochet me 3 hats over several years, one of her hats is my most worn hat by a country mile and I can see this one becoming well worn as well


Julie has advised me the hat is modified from a pattern called Button Down Hat by Cheryl Oberle and published in a book called Luxury One Skein Wonders. 


She modified it to match the yarn she used and to make it bigger as she says all the hats in the book assume the wearer has a tiny head, if she followed the pattern it would have come out at 50cm rather than 60cm. 


The hat is intended to be roomy, like a bag so it traps air around the head and helps to keep in the warmth.


The hat is basically a rectangle with 2 of the corners folded down to give it shape




Seen in these last photos during a recent walk, complete with a twig which I did not notice








Friday 24 April 2020

X-Men Hat

This hat is here because I needed to fill in a gap of my a to z of hats, i.e X





A baseball cap with a badge


Nothing more to say.






Saturday 18 April 2020

Mr Lemon


A Christmas gift, this beret is lemon themed. 


Not only is the hat lemon coloured the pip in the centre of the crown has been made to look like a green stalk.


Stalk


This will now become an upgrade to the costume of particular character who has progressed into various lemon-based products sales.






No need to say any more about berets as they have been covered in plenty of previous posts.


PS the lemon necklace was previous gift from the same person.


Saturday 11 April 2020

This is a Piece of Crap

I've bought some bad hats before, but this has got to be worst.


It's supposed to be a Montera which is a hat that represents the bull and worn by bullfighters, the real hats are not cheap and only wanted one for this blog, so ordered this off eBay, it looks nothing like the real thing, is made of recycled cardboard by the look of it and would not fit anybody comfortably.

Most of the time fancy dress hats, novelty or tourist hats can be decent and while not robust fit the bill and can be worn.

This hat, however, is a lesson learned. 


Will end up in the bin soon as it's taking up space.