Fashion Hats

The art of headwear at the Strathmore

Maybe it’s because it’s Halloween weekend, or because the event has the word “art” in the title, but guests at the Strathmore’s tART party on Thursday put a lot of awesomely weird stuff on their heads.

Guests are treated to an array of headgear as they sip elderberry liquor cocktails and take in the electronic musical stylings of Yoko K. Col. Bill Billingsley works the tastefully attired crowd in a black western hat. (And that is “western,” not “cowboy,” as Billingsley admonishes me.)

“For me, this is trademarked attire,” he explains. “I tend to wear caps during the day,” but for “these more formal affairs,” he goes with a Stetson.

“I have four,” he says. “Two black, one silver belly, and one that’s kind of a pecan color.” Billingsley has dropped as much as $2,800 on a pure beaver hat.

“It costs money to dress like this,” he says.

Source: TBD.com (blog)

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Roobeedoo: Complementary Knitting

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While I was waiting, I could not resist making a start on the Ashby Shawl .  But I am a silly fool.  I did not pay sufficient attention to the chart key and I decided that all of my wrong side rows were inside out:  I knitted where I should have purled and vice versa.  "Sigh," thought I.   Riiiiiiiiiiiiip! For My Mother:  OK... I might not knit anything for Grandma this year because it never seems to be the right thing (*too scratchy / hot / funny colour / modern-looking) and she is perfectly capable of knitting  her own black acrylic ribbed hats.  Or maybe I will relent and knit her a nice soft natural-fibre hat from a vintage pattern (*old-fashioned looking). Pffft!

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