Tall Hats

Often called Elizabethan or Renaissance tall hats, they’re a stiff hat worn first by men, then later by women.

Many of the wedding dresses selected for a Scottish theme wedding would go well with this Renaissance hat style. Particularly if a tartan hatband and clan plant badge cockade were added.

Sources for Ready Made Hats

Tall Toad has one basic style in a variety of colors

Image courtesy Tall Toad


Image courtesy Tall Toad
Just picture this with the Peacock Tartan Theme and a peacock eye in the brim.

Pattern Sources

Though there are patterns and instructions available, unless you are an accomplished milliner, you will probably have much more satisfactory results with a purchased hat.

• Lynn McMasters
  
  
• Sewing Central
  Margaret Anderson Pattern #003
  
  
• Patterns of Time
  15 pages of historical hat patterns

Online Instructions

• The Renaissance Tailor
  
  
• Cathy Snell

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