Nail that hat!

Jeannie in her customized sun hat

Check out how Jeannie asymmetrically sewed the crown into a lip!

Oh...I've been a bad girl.  I haven't done a blog posting in one month!  I was very busy, you see....Well, I'm going to try making several shorter postings this month as an experiment.  Today I went to the Ferry Building Farmer's market in San Francisco.  It's so much fun!   I always end up giving several business cards out. I wore my lilac metallic fish skin helmet.

In my lilac fishskin helmet. I can make one for you, too!

The first fascinating person I met was upstairs in the ferry building, in the bathroom, of all places!  She was most stylishly dressed with the most amazing haircut.  It was edgy and avant garde. She said she had a weakness for hats...it looked like she would look amazing in all of my hats! She's the Vice President of the SF American Cetacean Society. Check her out on the far right.  The Cetacean Society is dedicated to protecting whales, dolphins, and porpoises through education, research, and conservation. 

The next fascinating person I met was while waiting for the #1 California bus. I usually take my bike to the farmer's market, but I wanted to change things up today.  I praised this lovely woman named 'Jeannie' on her polka dot sewn ribbon hat to break the ice.  I told her that it looked like she had bought it in Paris.  "Oh  god no!", she said, and then proceeded to tell me how she had revised her 'San Diego Hat Company' hat.  She turned it inside-out, since it caused her to have a grey cast on her face. She then hand-sewed the top edge of the crown into a sort of lip to make it more interesting.  For ribbon, she used black binding normally used in trimming the edge of blankets (she didn't want to spend $10 on ribbon at Britex).  Jeannie tied a pretty bow under her chin and at one end of the binding, sewing a small metal model of the Eiffel Tower. Why did she have to use the ribbon, I inquired? The hat was sold without the ribbon, though I don't know why, because the grommets were just begging for one!  She said that in San Francisco, you need to nail down your hat to your head because it's so windy!  It would've been interesting to video interview her!  Her ex-husband was recently visiting her and bought a few hats from the Goorin Brothers. When they went out to dinner one night, she saw a man with the exact same fedora hat.  She said to her ex: "There's your twin hat!".

Do you have any interesting stories of how you revised a hat that you bought?

Till we meet again,

xoxo

Jasmin