Regency Stovepipe Hat

Seriously, I think I have a problem.  Like, perhaps I need to join some sort of support group for this!  I cannot stop making hats!  I adore them!  I dream about them!  I see them in a movie, on the web, in a book, in a museum...and I start to salivate, my fingers begin to tingle, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that my eyes dilate.  I can imagine myself standing up in a group of costumers and saying, "Hello, my name is Gina and I can't stop making hats."  I wonder if there is a pill for this affliction!  The worst thing?  I have hats that I don't have dresses for yet!!!!!!!  SICK!

Well, my latest lust attack was Lady Catherine de Burgh's stovepipe hat.  You remember her don't you.  From Pride and Prejudice.  The 1995 one.  I absolutely adore that particular one.  The costumes are so wonderful, lush, mesmerizing.  When I want to go into a costuming coma, I watch that one.  Anyway, I love Lady Catherine.  And her outfits.  I don't know what my fascination is with snitty women.  I adore Ruth Dewitt Bukater too.  Such snots, but what wonderful costumes!!  So, anyway, this hat that she wears to the Bennet abode to give Miss Lizzie a proper dressing down.....I LOVE it!  I love her whole outfit actually.  Such a rich color and the textures are wonderful.  

So, I spent most of the day, and half a roll of my husband's craft (er..I mean brown construction) paper getting the pattern just right.      

My Lady Catherine de Burgh...

Love the finger waves...

Oh yes...check out Lizzie's mustard gloves!!!  Cool! 

"Obstinate, headstrong girl!  I am ashamed of you!"

"I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet.  I send no compliments to your mother.  You deserve no such attention.  I am most seriously displeased."

Poor Miss Anne's hat is fabulous as well!  

All the Pride and Prejudice images are from

http://periodmovies.blogspot.com/

My version.  I don't think the diameter is the same nor the height, but I got tired of working on it...so this is where it shall stay!  I did use the brim pattern piece from Lynn McMaster's 1830s Romantic Period Bonnet for the brim.  Again, I was just beyond messing with it.  

http://lynnmcmasters.com/romanticbonnet.html

The colors.  Teal Velvet and Ivory cotton jaquard.  This should be fun!!!

Regency Now? Boy I am all over the map!

Ok, so now it is Regency.  I have been either sick to my tummy or having issues with my back, so I have been lying down quite a bit here lately!  And as I have been in repose, I have been spending quite a bit of time doing research.  And playing around on Pinterest.  And looking at lovely dresses from years ago.  I can't even remember what got me started on Regancy....

Nope....

No, wait.  Yes, I do.  

I purchased one of those lovely HUGE file cabinets from a thrift store last week.  You know, the kind that has 4 super wide, super deep drawers?  Ya, well, I got it to organize all of my patterns, because to my way of thinking, if I organized them, then my house Brownie would quit stealing my patterns and causing me to believe I have early onset Alzheimer's.  In categorizing my patterns, I ran across my Regency Era patterns and my brain started buzzing with costuming insanity again.  I was too tired to quiet the buzzing down, so I let my brain just run with it.  This is what I came up with!

I adore this outfit.  The monochromatic scheme, the hat!!!  The gargantuan muffler.  The trim on the bottom of the skirt.  So fun!  Except mine will be in shades of Teal!!! 

And look at this sleeve!  The bottom one, which of course is in teal!  I can't remember which book I got this image from...I took the picture while at a friends house...

My fabrics.  The teal velvet and lighter teal dupioni!  

This is going to be a fun outfit to make.  Now I just need to come up with an event to wear it to!