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[[File:Fascinators.jpg|thumb|230px|Fascinators]] |
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[[File:ViolinaFascinatorHatWithPin.jpg|thumb|230px|An example of a fascinator hat attached with a hat pin]] |
[[File:ViolinaFascinatorHatWithPin.jpg|thumb|230px|An example of a fascinator hat attached with a hat pin]] |
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They are just pointless hats that some woman choose to wear. There serve absolutley no purpose other than to make the individual look like some sort of sea urchin. They often cost a lot of money too, further proving that the wearer is indeed an idiot. |
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The '''cocktail hat''' or fascinator is a style of [[millinery]] worn at [[cocktail party|cocktail parties]] and festive gatherings, especially in the evening. The name is related to [[cocktail]] drinks, often consumed while wearing them, and the hats sometimes include a feather or feathers, giving them the appearance of including a [[rooster|cock]]'s tail quite literally. This may be a fun affectation related to the play on words. {{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} |
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Meredyth Etherington-Smith wrote in London's ''[[Independent (newspaper)|Independent]]'' that cocktail hats are her favorite style of hat. She describes them as being "absurdly frivolous" and something "you cram on at the end of a hard day in the office and sally forth to a cocktail party looking as if you have spent the afternoon getting ready rather than staring at a computer screen."<ref name="mad"/> Smith calls a [[surrealist]] black [[velvet]] hat in the shape of a [[high-heeled shoe]] with a 3-foot [[feather]] (a museum piece designed by [[Elsa Schiaparelli]] for Madame [[Salvador Dali]] in the [[1930s]]) the best one she's owned. "It caused major upheavals whenever I wore it" but came to "a bad end when a drunk in a cocktail bar in New York sneaked up behind me and cut off the feather" causing despair for weeks she wrote.<ref name="mad">Meredyth Etherington-Smith [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/mad-for-hats-1255870.html Mad for hats]; Big hats, little hats, silly hats June 14, 1997 The Independent |
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A white cocktail hat made by [[North Vancouver]]'s Doreen Marlor and constructed with paper from a local craft store was part of the ''Fibre, Naturally: Paper Like You Have Never Seen it Before'' on [[Granville Island]] at [[Emily Carr University]].<ref>Kerry Blackadar [http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/look/story.html?id=13cd6aae-ffbb-4050-92d0-70307fd48411 Hanji marries old and new] |
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August 07, 2009 North Shore News</ref> [[Nancy Matt]], a milliner from Saratoga Springs, recommends brimless cocktail hats for people dressing up in the evening.<ref>Meg Hagerty [http://www.poststar.com/articles/2009/08/03/ae/today/doc4a74eb87a328a542426479.txt Designer puts hats on track in Saratoga Springs] August 03, 2009 Post Star</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*[[List of hats and headgear]] |
*[[List of hats and headgear]] |
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Revision as of 23:38, 13 January 2010
They are just pointless hats that some woman choose to wear. There serve absolutley no purpose other than to make the individual look like some sort of sea urchin. They often cost a lot of money too, further proving that the wearer is indeed an idiot.
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- Cocktail hats from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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