scarpantoni
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I love winter coz I can get my hats out ... love hats ... all sorts.
Are you comfy with hats ... our mothers all had them but for most of us they only come our for hatching , matching and dispatching... or sun hats ??
Do tell.
Scarp xx wearing a fetching titfer made of fluffy angora !! 
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aec13cat
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Reged: 08/01/2009
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Loc: N. Ireland
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Hi Scarp. Wish i suited hats but I don't at all. I think wearing glasses can change how you look so when I put a hat on all you see is glasses and a face!! There are some beautiful hats around and I really wish i suited them.
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scarpantoni
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ohh aec13cat... I wear specs but still plop my hats on... I dare you to get a trilby for christmas !! l o l
Love Scarp x
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RunGirl
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Reged: 11/01/2008
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Loc: South East London
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I love wearing hats but sadly my hair doesn't! They look ok when on but I look terrible when I take them off..............
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carsma
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Loc: Berks
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Hats are lovely. I am not, I look grim in a hat. D looks fab so she wears one if having a bad hair day.
Carsma x
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PLASMO
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Hi Scarpantoni,
I love hats too, but unfortunately, they dont like me, I always look so funny in them ha ha. My family just laugh.
Plasmo x
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chilla
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i love hats so much Scarpers that I trained to be a City and Guilds qualified couture milliner. I'd love to have a workshop and be surrounded by sinamay and milliners wire and sil flowers and parasisal and bukram and petersham and fabrics and stiffener....Ok you get the idea. Unfortunately couture hats have a very limited market and i think my skills area little rusty. 
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I have the talent of single-minded determination and foc....hey, look, dog!
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Glitterqueen
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Loc: Essex
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Wow Chilla that is a heck of a career change. Any regrets?
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WoodyM
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Reged: 01/04/2009
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Loc: Cheshire
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I love hats.....they have such an air about them....the beret a bit of France, the cloche 'Brief Encounter'....unfortunately I look ridiculous!!!
Chilla what a talented lady.....fork lifts and milliner......
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scarpantoni
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Reged: 22/07/2009
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Wow Chilla ... respect !!!!
Love Scarp xx
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chilla
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Wow Chilla that is a heck of a career change. Any regrets?
Oh no GQ, I haven't changed - I said 'I'd love to....' meaning that I am still in haulage, as much as I would love to faffle about with millinery.
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Glitterqueen
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Loc: Essex
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I meant the other way around Chilla - starting out and training as a milliner and then ending up in haulage. Any regrets about not sticking with the hats?
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chilla
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Ah! I see what you mean! Actually I started out as a forklift driver, went into haulage and trained to be a milliner 3 years ago. I really ought to make myself clearer! 
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I have the talent of single-minded determination and foc....hey, look, dog!
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rosacarol
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Reged: 16/10/2009
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Loc: Reading
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I like them as long as they've got a fairly large brim. Put a small hat on someone of my height and girth and it looks, as my mother used to say, like "a pimple on the Rock of Gibraltar!"
She was a great one for sayings, my mother!! She was also a great one for hats. On one of the first occasions my OH visited my parent's house, my Mum had put one of her hats, a round, dark brown, fur beret-type thing onto the chair in the hall, ready to take upstairs. My soon-to-be OH bent down to stroke it. He thought it was a cat!!!
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X_Debi_X
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Reged: 30/10/2009
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I do love hats bought a new woolly one from H&M yesterday really inexpensive but as mentioned by Rungirl its the problem if your out and want to take it off hair looks flat so hence if i put a hat on it generally on for the day.
x-Debi-x
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Lillie
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Loc: Sandhurst, Berkshire
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I too dont really suit hats - although I wore one once and it looked great ! It as a lovely navy and white large brimmed hat which matched a posh dress I was wearing !!
Sue x
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ChrissiFi
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Loc: Somerset
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I love hats. I saw some beautiful caps in Monsoon a couple of weeks ago but they were so high up I couldn't reach them and I couldn't find an assistant to help
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chilla
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Reged: 05/09/2008
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Loc: runcorn
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Just in case anyone is interested in making hats here is the link to where I learned. The lady who runs it is as mad as a , erm, hatter but totally talented and such a font of knowledge of all things millinery and costume.
http://www.themillineryschool.co.uk/whatsnew.htm
The bottom left hand hat (it's a juliet actually) in white and mint green looks suspiciously like one of mine.
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scarpantoni
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Reged: 22/07/2009
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How fantastic Chilla, what an interesting hat website.....
I am all fingers and thumbs when it comes to sewing or knitting anything, but give me a tube of glue and I am in seventh heaven !!
Wearing my black angora trilby today with a little 1.5" treble clef sparkly brooch on it and a little pearl hat pin to keep it on my head on the other side......weather a bit windy down here today !!
Scarp xx
Edited by scarpantoni (05/11/2009 14:40)
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chilla
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...oooo, just get my spy satellite in the right place and..... oh yes Scarpers, very chic! 
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I have the talent of single-minded determination and foc....hey, look, dog!
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italian06
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Reged: 19/02/2009
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I actually hate wearing hats because when I put them on(doesnt matter which shape or material) all you can see is my nose!!!!
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scarpantoni
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Reged: 22/07/2009
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Italian o6 - at least you dont have sticky out ears ... remember Freddie Davis !!! ???
Thanks for your responses ladies. Have a nice evening xx
Scarpx
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marina
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Reged: 14/08/2008
Posts: 2559
Loc: "On the rocks....somewhere!!!"
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I love hats. Cloche, wide brimmed, cowboy, you name it...I possibly have one! 
Chilla, you are one talented lady! What an interesting site and beautiful hats.
Chrissi, give me a shout next time you are going shopping and I will come and climb up the shelves for you!! 
Scarp, I have my eye on this one from Celtic Sheepskin for the winter, it would be ideal at the farm...but OH says I will look like a demented spaniel in it
I can understand the problem that some ladies have over spoiling the hair but mine is long and straight. When I take the hat off...it remains long and straight....problem solved!
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marina x
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