Hats: Brava

Right after my meditation on Hats: Weird, I came across a great collection by a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sarah Azzouzi.  Her design speciality is millinery (how awesome is that?  I see an eccentric, but very elegant millinery shop in some place caught in a wrinkle in time like Edinburg in the future) and her collection is called Zzouzi Hats which in my opinion are very much a Hats: Brava.

These hats make me very happy and optimistic for the millinery-based stylings of the fashion world.

Hats: Weird

Hats are a clothing article that I really want to like.  And by hats I mean things that you would not don for the sole purpose of protecting your tender scalp from the scorching heat of the Texas sun or the bitterness of a Midwestern winter.  Hats just as an accessory usually seem superfluous to me, which is a terrible shame really.  When I do see someone successfully pulling off a hat, I think brava (or bravo, which is a bit less likely).  Unfortunately, my perusal of Modcloth today did not help my conditioned prejudice:

Un-fur-gettable

I looked at this cute little hat and the only thing I could think of was George Costanza's rat hat.

OK, I could not find a picture of the rat hat (stills of Seinfeld episode are really hard to find online) so this is the original $4000 Russian sable hat, but you get the idea.  The former hat is ruined for me unless I see you in a place like Ekaterinburg in Spring, Winter, or Autumn.

Then there is this one.

Hats in the Belfry

This hat is hand wash only, apparently.