Sewing: 1930s style hats

Published by avrilejean at March 2, 2019

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A home made hat displayed on a paper mache skull - 1930s green

I was over my dress sewing binge but still felt like doing hand sewing stuff so I got out my hat patterns.

1930s reproduction hat pattern, vintage pattern lending library — Vintage Pattern Lending Library “Hats in Various styles” – 1930s.

I’d made one hat from this pattern, at least 10 years ago, with offcuts from a green dress I made. It is a nice hat, I wear it quite often in winter as it covers the ears.

I found a good way to display my hats for this, didn’t I? View A of the above.

I always like to see how people do linings and insides of hats

All my hats (and most things I sew) are always a bit wonky all the time. I do line them, add buckram and interfacing, but I hand-sew and I don’t mind stitching showing, etc. I am never going to be neat and tidy. If anyone cares that’s their problem!

Anyway I thought I’d make another hat from this. I had a leftover bit of wool/polyester blend suiting that I’d tried to make a suit out of and failed to fit and so I aborted it. I still had some of the fabric and decided to tackle view D.

I always ignore trimming instructions and make modifications. I left the back open and trimmed it with a vintage brown button I had.

Lining. I need a hat block and a steamer, at the very least one of those little inserts you can iron around…I know, I know. Pressing will sort out a bunch of the rumples.

Vintage Pattern Lending Library – Ladie’s hat and gloves

I also had this pattern which I’d never used so I decided to give it a go. No idea why I have two different head size patterns. I’m not even sure what size my head even is.