Vintage Fancy Dress

1950′s – photographer unknown

 

 

1919 Carousel Fancy Dress Costume

 

 

 

Women on Venice Beach (1930′s)

 

 

1930′s Clown Costume

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pearls & Swine

Affordable, awesome, innovative British millinery and affordable to boot. Don’t ask me to choose my favourite piece as I can’t. Pearl and Swine well worth checking out.

Cats for Hats

You’re welcome. Thank you Esty and fed up looking cat for making me smile!

Oh My!

Piers Atkinson has done it again with his a/w 12 collection entitled ‘Oh My!’ – oh my indeed I adore it all. Top picks below including one of the men’s pieces (anyone for a crystal beard).

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Cake Party Hats

If It’s Hip It’s Here have done a great New Year round up of party hats in art. Will Cotton is my favourite of course >>

Witty & wearable

As you already know I adore the work of Piers Atkinson (this link takes to my previous post on his Sex on the Brain collection), and am bursting with excitement that I can wear one of his creations for the EYHO & PP shenanigans next week. This frankly awesome news got me hunting through his website (for the millionth time) where I was reminded just why his work captured my imagination from the very first time I saw it. Items from The Frog & The Princess (AW09) collection shown below really summarise why he nails it for me as my favourite milliner – playful, funny and some even slightly ridiculous all of them are very wearable and destined to make anyone feel rather naughty indeed. I can’t wait!

Owl hats

Yes, yes this is for you… (source)

Santa Whales

As Greenpeace said:

“it is unfortunate” most Japanese people only got to see whales in novelty type contexts”

What is wrong with all the visitors to the Japanese aquarium who clapped and cheered at the sight of beluga whales being dressed up as Santa. Grrrrrrrrrrrr stuff like this really pisses me off – for a start they should be in the ocean. It is interesting the Japanese appear to have no interest in dressing up the humpbacked whales they so happily hunt and kill with machine gun fire in the aid of “scientific research”.

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Cats in Hats

I know it is childish and this post should by rights come from a 14 year old girl who loves Miss Kitty BUT ‘Cats in Hats’ makes me laugh.