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    Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality

    Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women

    Hats Off For David Jones AJC Derby, Quite Possibly Best Event Ever

    With All The Frills Upon It

    Hats: Twee Affectations Or Stylish Statements?
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I am oblivious to whether hats are in fashion or not. However, I have worn hats daily for decades and my collection includes hats from the 1940s and 1950s. My oldest hat is a hundred years old and is in a perfect condition. Last night I bought a huge Victorian hat box to put some of them in. My love of hats is certainly cheaper and more comfortable than having a shoe obsession.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Those people can keep their Lolita glasses. I do not see the appeal.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    "Agent Provocateur is launching a new line of super-expensive lingerie it's calling couture."
    I thought they already did this. Also, recessions are great times to start selling v. expensive underwear.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I thought you meant Tori Amos was starting a clothing line... and now I'm sad that it's not the case.
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    08/17/09

    @Bitcherina: Now we're all going to have to make our own fringed nightmares. :(
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    08/17/09

    @Bitcherina: Oh, don't we all wish that.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Hats are back, but not hats to the back. Sorry, TLC.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Fashion's Night Out: get out, meet your neighbors, judge their fashion sense and style...
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I'm confused, why would J.Crew be selling Levi's?
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    Image of Wit is periodically disensouled Wit is periodically disensouled
    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    Those of us who adore hats but don't wear them often enough really ought to band together and form a pact to wear them. There's strength in numbers!
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    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    That first pic is absolutely magnificent (especialy when I thought it was Kristen McMennamy [or however you spell it]).
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    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    I'm getting the impression from this post that hats (and fashion) are a way to escape and be someone else. But I've always seen fashion, hats included, as a way to express your true, unique self. Costumes = escape. Fashion = the amplification of oneself. So I'm not getting the whole "expression of another self" bit.
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    05/13/09

    @elephantshoes: I think it's both, really, and the question you ask could be extended to all art forms. Self-expression often involves escaping into the imagination or into other worlds, and looking at art/fashion does involve a degree of escapism. And there is a fine line between costume and fashion, I believe. When I get dressed in the morning, sometimes I ask myself "what costume am I going to wear?"
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    05/13/09

    @elephantshoes:I agree, in terms of the way I like to dress. I own two hats - a straw one for summer (which is also good for keeping the sun off my face) and a small wool cloche which is purely decorative. The reason I like them is that I feel totally comfortable in them and they blend in with all my other clothes. (I could probably be described a fan of the classics).


    I do feel that I'm drawing attention to myself when I wear them but only because hats are unusual, not because I'm wearing something that says 'In my sexual fantasies, I am an alien'.

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    05/13/09

    @elephantshoes: There was an essay in Aluure (back when it was good) about a woman who was an extra in period piece films, and her thoughts on women dressing in costume for everyday life- that that is the thought and purpose behind why some women wear what they wear, because it creates a new persona or identity. I don't disagree with that idea; and while I dress for expression, I also dress for confidence, which I do not always have. Isn't that a costume in the sense I am putting on someone else- a more liberated, out there self, as it were.
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    05/13/09

    @All: Thank you all. This topic is something I like to think about as I try to hone my personal style. I guess clothing is always going to be a costume to some degree because it's hard to dress YOU. Interesting perspectives...
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    Image of poires et poireaux poires et poireaux
    05/13/09

    @elephantshoes: If it's going to be a costume, you get to be the costume designer :)
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    This exhibition is hugely enjoyable (I went with my sister, Gherkinfiend and Makelovetothejudgeswithyoureye...) and I urge those resident in London to go.


    Also, I remember that Guinivere van Seenus interview - she said many idiotic things in it, although being Jewish, I found the quote highlighted most offensive.

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    05/13/09

    @Plum-Pie: I just realised she said this 10 years ago - that is a long career for a moddle.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    05/13/09

    @Plum-Pie: And you looked particularly stylish in your fabulous vintage hat...


    I second the recommendation for the exhibition. It is so good I've been twice! Total hat heaven!

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    Image of JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing! JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    I remain utterly incapable of not using this image any time there is a hat post.


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    Image of hfree hfree
    05/13/09

    @JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: There's also that halo-like veil thing she wears during the bar/club scene. That one always distracts me.
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    05/14/09

    I have always loved wearing hats on a daily basis and people use it for shorthand to describe me to others. My collection has recently expanded with a number of fabulous hats from the 1940s. I only discovered that there were so many wonderful vintage hats out there when I signed up for e-bay last week. A friend said when she first met me she thought I was impossibly grand and somewhat forbiddng simply because I always wore huge picture hats to work. I love to wear hats at a jaunty angle and there is something very flirtatious about widebrimmed hats or hats with a veil that partially conceal the face. My hats usually make me feel instantly glamarous and save a fortune on hairdressing bills. I could never afford a Stephen Jone's hat (I used to work near his Covent garden hat shop) nor would I want to. Now I can buy genuine Holllywood heyday millinery for a relative song. If you want to get ahead, get a hat as the saying goes.@JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!:
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    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    My great aunt was a very successful haberdasher. She was also batshit insane. Perhaps they go together? That said, the first hat is awesome... it looks like water.
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    05/13/09

    @wry_bred: Believe it or not, it's possible that it is related. The use of mercury in hatmaking caused serious illness, including some mental illness -- hence the term "mad as a hatter."


    OK, I googled it and here's an article:


    [www.worldwidewords.org]


    If this article is correct about the time period, though, your great aunt may have been too young for the mercury to have been a factor.


    I can't remember a damn thing that is important, but I have about a million useless facts such as this crammed in my head.

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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    He is a bona fide artistic genius. I LOVE hats. But I definitely have to be in the right mood to wear one.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    05/13/09

    In reply to Stephen Jones Helps Us Believe In Hats For Women
    I'm wearing the many legged doll hat to my interview for a housekeeping position at the Adams' family mansion.
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