12 New Hats and How You Can Make Them
Vintage Hat Designs with Patterns
Book 1

CONDITION: new, softcover, crisp and glossy covers, 2009, 24 pages, size: 7x10, unabridged, published by Bramcost Publications

Originally published in the early 1960s, this book is first in a series of four that will show you how to make both the playful and glamorous hats of the 1960s as well as millinery staple designs like the halo, pillbox, and cloche by sewing the hat together or using premade buckram frames (depending on the pattern and style). Additionally, a few of these hats can be made by recovering vintage hats in need of repair and/or a color/fabric upgrade as long as you have a structurally sound buckram frame to work with. Twelve hats are included: 

• draped turban -- satin and velvet are combined to create this simple-to-make hat
• kerchief cap -- black stitched velvet with fold over pleats and a taffeta-faced back bow
• high shine halo roller -- a shallow crown created from black straw banding set off by a lift of turquoise velvet
• pert-n-pretty pillbox -- a timeless flattering hat, this hat is rendered in straw cloth or soft leather, velvet satin, brocade or jersey with contrasting trim
• beret a la chanel -- an understated chic hat created with lightweight ice pink felt skirting (or any color/fabric of your choice)
• rippled brim cloche -- fantastic pleats and lush drama, this hat is made with taffeta, organdy, felt skirting or velvet
• packable pixie -- created with felt skirting and banded in leather with a button accent, this hat is soft and flexible and can be rolled and reshaped to fit your mood
• trellis holiday -- easy to make, this hat combines pretty pink flowers and green silk leaves on a shocking pink velvet trellis with matching bow
• rippled-look casual -- camel velour body with stitched brim and sectioned telescope crown is simple to make and gives the wearer an easy, breezy look
• leghorn bonnet -- romantic and carefree, this hat is sparked with black velvet accents and has a fashionably low, square-like crown and cushion band
• leaf and flower pillbox -- dressy, colorful and flattering, this hat is made with velvet leaves or flower petals
• felt and feather cloche -- made with a brim of black felt, this hat is created with multi-color hackle feathers and an ostrich plume pom-pom

Text instructions and illustrations detail measurements, folds, sewing guides and trim placement. Fabric suggestions, yardage, trim quantity -- everything is clearly written for these easy-to-make hats. Colors, fabrics and trims are only suggestions, you can choose any combination that suits your style.

Please see images for hat styles and sample patterns. Be sure to check our other auction listings for more books in this series as well as more vintage millinery books and magazines. 

Bramcost Publications is your publishing resource for vintage lifestyle books and patterns. Our books/patterns focus on the way our foremothers and forefathers lived, laughed and loved in their everyday lives. Beauty, fashion, millinery, entertaining and handicrafts are the building blocks of our book/pattern offerings with an emphasis on VINTAGE:

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