Week 23 - 'little hat parade'

Whenever you wear your hat,

your day will be special
-Margo Nickel-

Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Vintage hat, bought 1983 in New York.

During strolling up and down all the 'Avenues', passing Tiffany's, humming 'Moon river',
I discovered a beautiful hat box in the window display of a hat shop.
I went in and asked if this box is for sale.
"Oh no, only if you're a regular customer or - maybe - buying a few hats, then the box comes with..." 
There wasn't really a single hat in my price range I would 'die' for, and I had already quite a lot of hats,
but the hat box had black and white stripes and I desparetely wanted it!
So, I  looked for the lowest priced hats, gave them my biggest smile,
  bought this hat and another one and left the shop happily with the box!
Unfortunately I lost over the years the other hat  and the box - somewhere! 
Just one of this 'life stories'....

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Maurice Chevalier

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famous French 'boater' hats...

from my hat collection

late 19th century to early 20th century

French  1930's

One of my vintage hats, 1980's

created by  elke martensen hamburg

on a 1920's hat box

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Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842,

A French painter, recognized as the most famous female painter of the 18th century.

Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subject of neoclassical painting.

Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

National Gallery, London

Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassist, however,

in that she creates mostly portraits in Neoclassical dress

rather than the History painting.

In her choice of color and style

while serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette,

Vigée Le Brun is purely Rococo.

Self-portrait, painted at Florence, 1790

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More hats....
see also P.Gaye Tapp at  little augury 

"When straw calls......"
an interesting blog - "out of the box and something different"

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"auf den hut gekommen"

by Elke Martensen

At the time, up to the 1980's, when I was still living in Hamburg,

I had all my hat's created by Elke.

So good to find out that she is still creating!
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Week 23 - Diary 2011 National Gallery, London

Best wishes for a "well-sheltered" week!

Wuensche eine 'gut behuetete' Woche!