Fetish Night

These posts generally shouldn't be as long
as I make them. But I tend to overexplain,
assuming that most people don't understand
my fascinations. That they wouldn't make sense
unless there is background. I'm sure that I am
wrong, but I decided to explain anyways.

I have quite the obsession for hats, especially
vintage. For the longest time I would head to
some vintage shops (not the D.I. or Savers, these
are not vintage shops) and I spend all day
searching for some truly beautiful hats.
My favorites are generally from the 40's and
50's. Until I came upon Decades, I did not have the
best of luck finding these treasures.

After a while, my love of burlesque and pinup
brought me to a Miss Dita Von Teese.

She is the queen of modern burlesque, and her fashion
I wish more than anything I could emulate. But this sort of
style comes at a hefty price. I saw some pictures of her
with some amazing mini top hats.






I was determined to find one, and I looked online to see
what was available. I found some gorgeous handmade
hats, but they costed up to 200 dollars. As I looked around
some more, I found that a lot of people were making the
hats themselves for fairly cheap. They weren's as high
quality as I would like, but they were cute nonetheless.
So I headed to some craft stores, and I found top hats
made for dolls.

These were my first attempts. I have made more since
and gotten a lot better. I have also made quite
a few fascinators, which are a lot of fun to make,
and don't cost a lot.
My hats are extremely beginner, but it is a
fun hobby. I have been fortunate enough
to know a lot of people at Area 51. And they've
allowed me to set up a booth on fetish night
at no cost. I was going to go into a little
detail about fetish night and show some
pictures. But after showing my mom the pictures,
and then seeing her looks of disgust, I decided
against it.

The first time I set up there, I sold a good
amount of hats. This month, I had no luck and only sold
one fascinator. Here is my set up.

I even gave myself a business name and
made some cards. If anyone can guess what the name
is in reference to, you get a slap on the ass.

There was a girl who had bought one of my hats the first
time, and showed up this weekend wearing the hat again.
I was so excited, I took her picture with it on. She
looks so adorable with it on. It's not the best angle,
so you can't see the detail of the hat, but oh well.

I only have two pictures with me wearing the hats,
but I am hoping to get more soon. The first one
I'm just holding it, because it feel off.

I also took a lame picture of myself with my
vintage navy hat on. The theme for fetish night
was uniforms, so I made a shitty attempt at a
retro uniform. I fixed the hat up, and added
some feathers to it.

I hate taking pictures of myself, but I also hate asking
other people to take pictures of me.

After all of the research I've done, I have grown to
love millinery. And I wish we had a school available
in Salt Lake to teach it. I would love to learn how to form
hats, and understand the science of it. Maybe someday.