Recreating a Silly 1940’s Hat // Floral Tilted Toppers

Today I’m recreating a vintage hat style seen in one of my Alden’s mail order catalogs from Spring/Summer 1946! Is it ridiculous? Yes. Do I want to wear it here in suburbia just for the looks on folks faces? Also yes. Follow along as I make what Alden’s called a “Bewitching Floral Disk“... A terminology note, the term fascinator did not exist in the 1940’s! All hats were . From Wikipedia: “The use of the term “fascinator“ to describe a particular form of late 20th- and early 21st-century millinery emerged towards the end of the late 20th century, possibly as a term for 1990s designs inspired by the small 1960s cocktail hats, which were designed to perch upon the highly coiffed hairstyles of the period. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a use of the word (in quotation marks) from the Australian Women’s Weekly of January 1979, but here it appears to have been used in a slightly variant sense, to describe a woman’s hat incorporating a s