#pillbox hat for women

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LATIMOON Fascinators for Women Derby Pillbox Hat Cocktail Tea Party Feather Headband

[sylriensims]

[barbiehandlr]

i've been craving a new little tattoo, might do something stupid and get a non-obvious Barbie one. but what? i kind of want her little boater hat here because it would be subtle (more so than like a heel which i don't even wear) and i just love this outfit so much. (but then also, do i incorporate gloria? if yes, how so? or rather a quote? hm.)

[susoriginals]

Vintage 1950s Black Tall Pillbox Woven Straw Toque Hat Beige & Brown Accent Trim by Rex Jr of New York Only $4.99

[livingmylife2023]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Fashion History

for your next poem/story (pt. 2/2)

1950s

The 1950s were a time of large cultural and social change, which was reflected in the world of fashion. The Korean War began in 1950, followed by the introduction of the color TV in 1951. And in 1954, the modern civil rights movement began.

As the suburbs became popular, family and domesticity for women became a prominent force in society. Additionally, teenagers became fashion consumers and market leaders for the first time.

Due to technological advances, new fibers such as polyester, triacetate, and spandex are introduced. 

The prominent trend of the time was femininity, as shown by the prominence of Christian Dior's "New Look". Shape was emphasized by full swing skirts or narrow pencil skirts, as well as fitted bodices and a small waistline achieved with the help of petticoats and girdles. Elegant accessories and jewelry such as hats and pearls were popular at the time, and high heels were ubiquitous. Other trends included Peter Pan collars, tapered or capri pants, and the introduction of the bikini. 

1960s

The Beatles led the music and fashion “British Invasion,” influencing teenagers with their Mod aesthetic.

The Civil Rights movement led to the popularity of ethnic and African-inspired garments such as dashikis and caftans.

The 1960s were marked by eclecticism, both in fashion and society. A plethora of styles were fashionable at one time, ranging from space age fashions using vinyl and synthetics, to bold prints, colors, and disposable paper dresses inspired by Pop Art.

Mod fashion appeared on the London scene, with fashion designer Mary Quant as the “high priestess” of the style, and Twiggy as its supermodel.

Boutiques, a 1960s creation, began offering designer ready-to-wear collections, while easy-care fabrics were increasingly used by the general public.

Longer hemlines were dominant with maxi skirts and granny dresses, while hot pants and mini skirts were adopted by the younger market. These shorter hemlines popularized the use of pantyhose for modesty. As the decade progressed, chemise dresses that typified the dominant straight A-line silhouette became popular. Turtleneck blouses and sweaters were common, and sleeves were usually three-quarter length. Sleeveless tops were worn after the mid 1960s.

Jacqueline Kennedy became a major fashion icon, famous for her sophisticated style, pillbox hats, and pearls. Overall, hats in general experienced a decline in use, due to the popularity of high bouffant hairstyles.

Knee high go-go boots were popular, patent was often used, and low-heeled, square-toed shoes were common.

Popular accessories included headbands, bold jewelry, and matching shoes and handbags.

1970s

During the 1970s, the eclecticism of the previous decade continued, and influences from subcultures dominated fashion.

The Vietnam War ended in 1973, and the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1974.

The hippie subculture emphasized environmental awareness and social acceptance, translating into the popularity of natural fibers and earth tones, loose garments, blue jeans, and ethnic influences in dress.

Peasant blouses and skirts and psychedelic prints were popular, as well as historic revival styles.

In the late 1970s, music styles such as glam rock, disco, and punk influenced fashion and resulted in flashy, often shocking styles.

For the most part, clothing was loose and unstructured compared to previous decades. Skirts came in a variety of lengths — mini, midi, or maxi — although the mini and maxi were the most popular.

Unisex styles in clothing became a trend and were perpetuated by Diane Keaton’s character in the 1977 film, Annie Hall.

Trousers and blue jeans were worn by women more than ever before. Designer jeans arrived on the market, resulting in the birth of “licensing” for non-fashion products. Polyester was the other preferred textile for trousers.

1980s

With the rise of new media such as MTV, the 80s fashion landscape began to shift rapidly.

The televised wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer caused a fashion frenzy, with "Lady Di's" elegant hats, tailored suits, and evening dresses making her a global style icon. 

The 1980s were known as the "Me" Generation, with an emphasis on logos and designer labels.

The decade also saw the rise of yuppie (young urban professionals) culture, and the introduction of the fitness craze.

In the world of high fashion, postmodernism and avant-garde fashion were vastly influential. With the introduction of yuppie culture, business attire and "power-dressing" with items like shoulder pads was a popular trend.

In light of the fitness craze, leg warmers, tights, and leotards were widely worn, and women accessorized with big hair, flashy costume jewelry, and bright heels.

In terms of undergarments, Madonna and Jean-Paul Gaultier inspired an underwear-as-outerwear trend alongside the popularity of Calvin Klein.

1990s

The 1990s reflected subcultures such as punk, goth, and grunge in fashion.

Hip-hop music became popular and as a result, urban fashion was popularized.

Unlike previous decades, the 1990s was notable for a more relaxed and casual look, as well as the introduction of technology such as cell-phones and pagers.

With the rise of globalization & technology, the fashion cycle began to speed up. 

1990s style was often considered "anti-fashion,"  with purposefully clashing or contradictory aesthetics.

Black, minimalist styles were popular, as well as vintage and 1970s style.

Many younger people sported crop tops, cargo pants, and blue jeans, and athletic wear in daily life. In terms of shoes, high heels, wedges, sandals, platforms, and sneakers were all widely worn.

More Notes: On Fashion ⚜ More: Writing Notes & References

[omgthatdress]

Cécile and Marie-Grace were released alongside the best friends line of dolls, and are a pretty transparent gimmick to get people to buy two dolls at once. That being said, I actually kind of love their collection.

Their story is set in New Orleans in 1853, which is a pretty great way to represent the Antebellum South without having a Scarlett O’Hara doll. New Orleans was one of the few places in the south with a robust middle class. Everywhere else had tremendous wealth inequality with absurdly rich plantation-owners, barely surviving poor Whites, and slaves.

Cécile is of the gens de coleur libre, that is, the free people of color, a class of New Orleans citizens born out of the plaçage system in which White men would take women of color as informal second wives. Plaçees held a really interesting position, as they could legally claim inheritance once their patron died, and the children born of plaçage could be named heir of an estate. Plaçees were also allowed to develop assets and run small businesses. All of this created a level of generational wealth that was unique among African-Americans at the time. Today, their descendants are known as Creoles.

As far as Marie-Grace goes, I don’t think she’s Cajun, just French-American. Cajuns are a specific group, the Catholic descendants of the French colonizers of Acadia, now called Nova Scotia, who were forced by the British out of the home. They settled mostly in the fertile Mississippi delta, and maintained a rural, somewhat insular way of life. Marie-Grace is the city-dwelling daughter of a doctor, so probably just the descendant of regular French citizens who settled in New Orleans.

Hair-wise, this is the era when girls tied their hair up with rags at night to have fat sausage curls in the morning. Most photographs and paintings that I’ve seen of Black girls in the era show them with their hair tied up, but there are a few who had curls.

Marie-Grace’s face-framing curls are a little bit more Jan Brady than 1850s, but it’s cute on her, so I’ll give her credit for that. The long hair isn’t inaccurate.

There’s something about Cécile’s dress that keeps saying “wrong” but I can’t quite put my finger on it. A more accurate dress would be more along the lines of something like this:

(The Victoria & Albert Museum)

(The Victoria & Albert Museum)

(New York Historical Society)

Marie-Grace’s dress seems to have been inspired by this portrait of Creole children:

(credit to @in-pleasant-company​ for finding it)

Cécile’s pillbox hat is a style that was adopted more in the late 1860s and 1870s. A more accurate hat would also have her in a “coal scoop” bonnet.

Her gloves, however, are accurate and adorable!

(The Met Museum)

Marie-Grace is wearing a kind of sun hat that was popular for children:

(The Met Museum)

Marie-Grace’s fan looks typical of the French fans that were popular at the time. They were usually painted with pretty pastoral scenes instead of flowers, however, although Chinese fans at the time frequently had floral themes.

(The Philadelphia Museum of Art)

(The Victoria & Albert Museum)

The shoes are definitely late Victorian rather than 1850s. Fine city ladies in the 1850s would be wearing boots made out of silk with leather soles:

(The Met Museum)

[green-planets]

StEx Appreciation Month Day 18: Volta!

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Face Claim: Zoe Hershaw, Eli Hayashi, Voyd, or Lyndi Oliver

Favourite Song/Scenes: AC/DC and the races! (the full on shrieking after being uncoupled from Hashimoto! She so angry 😭)

Favourite Costumes: I said the same thing last year, but when hasn't her costume slayed? Shout out to the asymmetrical sleeves (and whip!) from the early London costumes. I love her chaps and pillbox hat! I do prefer the blue lipstick over the red lipstick in most cases.

Favourite Ships/Friendships: Components x Electra, Volta x Joule, Volta x Joule x Wrench, Volta x Coco. She's friends with Electra and the other components! She'd also be such good friends with Coco (they both seem to have it out for Pearl lol)

Headcanons: Not only is she Electra's stylist, but she's also his personal confidante. She knows things about him nobody else does (her hair is big because it's full of secrets)

Unpopular Opinion: Volta should be a gender blind role. I know they have women covering him in Bochum, but the character is still male. Bring back the fan wig for some of the covers!

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Bonus Round: Zero!

Face Claim: Jayred Lempriere

Favourite Song/Scenes: Same as above, AC/DC and the races! He has some fun background moments

Favourite Costumes: Bochum >>> Wembley (sorry not sorry)

Favourite Ships/Friendships: Zero x Flat Top, Zero x Killerwatt, Zero x Elektra, Zero x Espresso (but as a one-sided crush). Zero is friends with the other components and Elektra! Coco is his bitch/gossip buddy

Headcanons: Zero secretly hooks up with Flat Top sometimes. He would die if anyone ever found out

Unpopular Opinion: The solid black hair is sooooo boring compared to what female Volta had going on. Give him some blue streaks or something already!

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[tillman]

Shout out to transgender blond women with issues and fur pillbox hats

[flymeandtiememaam2]

Pathetic Little Man POV

After she had manoeuvred me into the crew seat, with some difficulty, because I continued to struggle, the Sonya the senior stewardess crouched in front of me to tie my ankles together tightly with a pair of women’s tights (a remarkably effective way to secure someone, I reflected, as the nylon contracted the more you tried to get free), giving me a sight of her silly pillbox hat as I chuntered my protests at being treated this way for the “crime” of wanting to discuss flight safety with the captain. She ignored me and then strapped me tightly into the seat.

When I had strode towards the cockpit an hour into the flight, I heard an immediate hubbub behind me as two female flight attendants attempted to restrain me (and that’s another thing, why weren’t their any male crew on this flight to deal with my situation? It would have been a lot more dignified.), but I was able to push by them until Sonya arrived on the scene. She and wrestled wordlessly standing up until a sharp knee from the woman into my solar plexus quite literally knocked the stuffing out of me. I was then aware of Sonya sitting astride me as I lay gasping for breath face down on the floor of the aisle, and felt unable (although I promise you I did try) to prevent the vixen from twisting my arms behind my back before she tied my wrists together with pantyhose - it struck me then how stewardesses literally walk around in restraint equipment - and so much more ladylike than sporting a pair of handcuffs on their belt!

I was left in that helpless position seeing several heeled female legs come and go while I demanded to speak to the captain (and was serially ignored), until finally Sonya and another member of her supercilious sisterhood hauled me to my feet and marched me, publicly bound, down the aisle to the rear of the plane. Sonya then sat next to me to “guard” me, but didn’t say a word to me until she handed me over to the police. But then she didn’t need to - that smirking, superior expression said it all: “What a pathetic little man you are!”

Witch.

[royalhouseofcarrington]

The Style Evolution of Queen Elissa of Carrington (King's Day Edition Part 2)

See Part 1, her Crown Princess looks, here!

Now a mom of four, Elissa wore a plum skirt-suit and matching hat to King's Day as she rode in the carriage for her first year as Queen, with the white bow in her hat perfectly coordinating with the white bow on her dress.

For her second year as Queen, Elissa wore sunshine yellow and a matching hat, which she paired with the Genovian Diamond and Pearl necklace, which later became a favorite of her daughter, Anastasia.

While expecting the Princes Robert and Benjamin, the Queen took a page out of the style book of other royal women that came before her, in a cerulean blue dress and a matching hat with a cream flower detail.

The year after, the Queen debuted of her least liked Trooping the Colour looks with a simple red-purple hat and a hat in a similar shade. The Queen Consort also, strangely, decided not to pair any jewelry with the look, with the exception of her engagement ring.

Wearing one of her favorite designers, Natasha Burton, again, the Queen redeemed herself the next year with a salmon pink dress and bright pink polka-dots and an equally fun hat.

The year following, Elissa channeled Jackie Kennedy for her King's Day outfit a Natasha Burton Chanel-inspired skirt-suit and matching pillbox hat in white tweed.

The following year, in her 7th year as Queen Consort, the Queen took a little page out of the book of her sister-in-law, Princess Claire, the Duchess of Asbury, in an all blue ensemble, which she paired with the Tromsø Sapphire Earrings, which had been a wedding present from her father, who had passed away earlier that year.

The year after, Queen Elissa wore a Natasha Burton purple coat dress and matching hat, which she paired with the Elphinstone Chandelier Earrings.

The year following, the Queen, now one of the most senior female members of the family, 20 years after her marriage to the now King Richard, wore a Mary Poppins-esque ensemble, combined with her pearl necklace and diamond earrings, which were reported to be wedding gifts from the late King Louis and Queen Eliza.

The next year, to mark her husband's 10th year on the throne, the Queen dressed in green with a pair of emerald earrings that reportedly belonged to Queen Helena, King Richard's grandmother.

This last year had marked the start of great change for the Queen Consort, as it was her last year wearing a color that was not red, after she had welcomed Princess Alice, the King and Queen's last child, earlier that year. Her mother, Clara, would later pass away in that year.

Stay tuned for part 3 of Queen Elissa's King's Day (and a few Queen's Day!) outfits!

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Vintage Women's Teal Velvet w Feathers Pillbox Open Top Hat w Netting 1950s ebay Puddydo's Palace

[susoriginals]

Vintage 1950s Black Tall Pillbox Woven Straw Toque Hat Beige & Brown Accent Trim by Rex Jr of New York Only $4.99

[warwickroyals]

have any of the warwick ladies (or men!) started any fashion trends over the years, whether in sunderland or beyond?

That's a really good question, anon! You know how much I love fashion questions. I think I'm just going to list the royals and the popular fashion trends they influenced. Many royal women were influneced by Paris fashion trends, but through their own style they often influenced what was popular in Sunderland and some even gained international recognition in the 20th century:

QUEEN ANNE (1887 - 1973): Louis's grandmother Queen Anne was known for being more conservative in her dress. She also only had one primary dressmaker for most of her life, something that wasn't typical for most royal consorts. Anne never rocked the boat, but became an icon of sorts for more conservative minded women, who perfered her modest fashion. Her fashion was highly-tailored, and often monocrhome. In the 1920s, Anne despised many of the fashion trends coming from Paris. She forbid her ladies-in-waiting from bobbing their hair and she sound the flapper aesthtic to be extremely vuglar and "boyish". In her later life, Anne often wore pleated skirks and blouses, stlyed with fur trim and pearls.

QUEEN KATHERINE (1921 - 2018): Katherine was a stark contrast to Anne in many, many ways. Following WWII, there was a "return" of high fashion and Katherine was extremely interested. She invested heavily in evening gowns and dresses from Dior and Balenciaga, think Evita meets Princess Margaret. In her early days as Queen, she wore sweeping longer skirts with fitted waists and wide-brimmed hats. However, by the 60s she favoured a more structured look made up of suit sets, pillbox hats, and geometric silhouettes, very similar to the style of Jacqueline Kennedy.

QUEEN IRENE (1951 -): I've talked a lot about Irene's fashion HERE, so I won't rehash any of that, but Irene has been an enduring fashion icon on an international level. She took Katherine introducing haute couture and ran with it, although they often quarrelled over fashion since Katherine hated when Irene "overshadowed" her. Irene was also a symbol of changing times: she was the first royal consort to be seen wearing pants often, and she was also the first to be seen wearing a bikini and shorts (the horror!!!)

PRINCESS JAQUELINE (1977 -): Jaqueline was the cloest thing the royals had to a 90s It Girl. She was tall, blonde, and extremely skinny. She also inherited her grandmother's taste for Dior, while also rubbing up to Gianni and Donatella Versace furing her frequent stints in Paris and Milan. She was very glamours and prefered her things that were extremely form-fiting and feminine. Her fashion was often cause for controversy, espically when she wore mini skirts and slip dresses. Her casual fashion resembled that of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her glamour was often compared to that of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. She also was inflenced by her mother, although they were often at odds when it came to fashion.

THE MEN: Men's fashion, especially for male members of the royal family is extremely cookie-cutter. Throughout the decades men stuck to suits, jeans, button-up shirts, and khakis with slight variations based on the decade. It didn't help that Louis cares less about fashion than any other person on earth. He wore fannel in the 60s because his brother told him to, and he only started wearing jeans because Irene complained that he was too "formal", constantly wearing slacks to casual events.

[roamwithahungryheart]

17 Questions, 17 People

I was tagged by @strangeprincex @gold-mines-melting and @lovebittenbyevans

Nickname: Give me one!

Sign: Cancer 🦀♋ (Taurus rising, Scorpio moon)

Height: 5’2 on a good day

Last thing I googled: Love Is Blind Zanab & Cole

Song stuck in my head: Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Followers: 3,148

Amount of sleep: 6 hours?? Maybe??

Lucky number: 8, my Life Path number

Dream job: Speech & Language Therapist

What am I wearing: Wouldn't you like to know 😏

Movies/Books that summarise me: When Harry Met Sally, Catching The Big Fish by David Lynch

Favourite song: Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart

Favourite instrument: Piano

Aesthetic: Preppy Wine Mom

Favourite Book: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Random fact: I've performed on stage in one of the most famous clubs in the world.

Tagging: @kentray @believemetheodore @dukeofdelirium @winter2112rose @inlovewithhisblueeyes @puzzle-paradigm @leopard-skin-pillbox-hat-ok @astheskycries and whoever else wants to do it! x

[dreamofstarlight]

Jackie did royal women such a service with her pillbox hats.

Fr!