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Frosty hat made from 1/2 oatmeal box and paper plate sprayed black with embellishments added. Made as a tree topper for friend’s snowman Christmas tree.
Put the fabric on the under side of the brim first. Cut slits in the fabric where it tucks up inside the hat so that it will lay smoothly. I used a Gorilla Heavy Duty Spray Adhesive to glue my fabric on. Use the glue sparingly and do small sections at a time so that you can smooth the fabric down as you go.
An elastic round hat, which may be made of beaver, silk, or other materials. The top of the crown and about half an inch from the top as well as the brim and about an inch, the crown from the bottom are stiffened in the ordinary manner.
To cover the hat with fabric, I traced around the various parts of the hat directly on the material, cut it out (plus a little extra for wiggle room), used spray basting adhesive to stick it to the straw base, then finished the edges with hot glue on the parts you can’t see and a strip of bias edging around the brim.
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the Smithsonian Institution After Lincoln’s assassination, the War Department preserved his hat and other material left at Ford’s Theatre. With permission from Mary Lincoln, the department gave the hat to the Patent Office, which, in 1867, transferred it to the Smithsonian Institution.
Top hats were tall because they were a symbol of fashion and being current with the times. Almost everyone wore them, which is why more people had a hat then those who didn’t. Although they went out of style in the 1920s, hats were worn for many decades afterward.
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