Tit for Tat Hat.

Beth expounded on hats this morning. I feel I should reciprocate. Hubbys sketch (which he did for his own costume, so it must be what he wants, right?) shows a close fitting skull cap type thing. I thought, why not make this more "fashionable"? You know, purely depending on your definition of fashionable.

flap hat-bruegel peasant dance

Looking more closely at hat styles, I see that this particular skull cappy cap has earflaps. Oh, what fun....

flap hat-privatelyheldpbruegelyounger

Then, I found this one in a privately held p. breugel painting. Slightly different ear flaps, but very much the same. This one lacks the extension and what i think are ties of the previous one.

flaphatflip--privately held van cleve

Oh, look, we have "fashionable options" here. This rebel has flipped his flaps up! Oh my, the scandal.

So then, all I had to do was get hubby's approval. He looked at me and said "no way am i wearing ear flaps." So I confidently showed him Mr. Earflap Rebel, and now I'm allowed to make the hat! Huzzah! I think I might even make it red. They do seem to like their red hats. Whether it matches or not.