nuranar | "Dutch Girl" Hat (Reply)

(It's also pretty much exactly like a nurse's cap, but it's sure the wrong color!)

In and around laundry and cleaning the kitchen on Sunday afternoon, I put together my first version of this 1940s pattern:

My version!

The hardest part was finding fabric from my stash! I want to wear this at Fort Richardson next Saturday, if not this Saturday at Antique Elegance, with a two-tone blue sweater from Rocket Originals and my newly-remade brown tweed skirt. Ironically, the only blue and brown fabrics I had were remnants of blue wool I've had forever, and the brown wool I got in Dallas during estelyn_strider's visit several years ago. It's a nubby but soft brown wool that looks a LOT like Eowyn's brown traveling coat, but is actually only suit-weight at the heaviest. I don't like cutting into nice big pieces of fabric, even when I have no foresable use for them, but this was just perfect.

I wanted this to be a little warmer, too, so I interlined it with my one remnant of cotton flannel, in Bright Scarlet. I'm happy to report that although the brown wool is lightweight, it is NOT translucent. :D

I didn't take any construction pictures, but it's super easy. There one big pattern piece, basically a T with a very wide and deep top stroke and short upright. The lower corners of the cross are overlapped in the center of the base of the upright, and you have a hat!

I trimmed it a ribbon bow from the scrap left over from my white hemp Regency bonnet. The pattern had instructions for making one from a turned tube of the contrast fabric, but I really didn't want to fuss with turning and ironing a tube!

The mannequin head my mother got for me on ebay many years ago. It's lovely to have a place for it to be out now!

My only real question now is how to do my hair. The hat is not very deep (I'll need a small hatpin, for sure with the wind at Fort Richardson!), so I'm really wanting to try one of the pompadour styles from the vintage hairstyling book. (Birthday present!) I'm not sure exactly if it will look good with the hat, though. As for the rest of my hair, I think I'll curl it tightly again and pin up the ends underneath to shorten it. Or maybe try a neckline roll. Ideas?