Soft hats and caps are well and good for casualwear and baseball teams. A really stylish chapeau, however, calls for structure, a shape that supports lovely extravagances from bows to veils. Traditional millinery techniques require costly equipment, such as hat blocks and steamers, in order to create stiff, shaped hats. I've found an alternative means to make hats. It's done with inexpensive materials and doesn't require much fabric. The supplies are readily available, with the exception of heavyweight buckram, milliner's wire, and wire joiner, all of which can be ordered online. My method is so simple-you don't even need to measure your head. Here, I share my technique to make three hat types.
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