Candy Top Hat

Noemi Nemeth

Hungary

• HATalk Issue 92: An Interview with Harvy Santos (specifically headband on Page 6)

When I subscribed to the magazine, I was a beginner milliner, but since then I’ve participated a lot of workshops and my knowledge of making hats improved for a way more professional level. Unfortunately due to the current pandemic situation I had no chance to show these new techniques I’ve learnt, so this possibility for competition made me very happy and excited.

When I was turning over the HATalk magazines I’ve just found the inspirational photos of candy headbands. The idea of my project came immediately – a candyshop, where young girls are sorting of sweets.

As I am designing and sewing clothes since my childhood, I made the costumes, the hats and the headbands fit to the project and we asked the owner of a local candyshop to take some photos there.

• Sinamay (for blocking)
• Millinery wire (for wiring and spirals)
• Pelon
• Satin /sky blue
• Spangly fabric /sky blue and pink
• Sponge covered with satin fabric /which holds the pompons and other decors/
• Pompons
• Coke cap (for candies)
• Stick (for lollipop-stick)
• Comb
• Hat elastic

• Blocking
• Wiring
• Covering crown (with pelon and satin)
• Covering brim (with pelon and satin)
• Crown Banding
• Preparing my own decors (lollipop and sugars)
• Trimming whit my decors (lollipop, sugars, and pompons)
• The whole hat with all the decorations was made by handstiching /except the sponge, which is glued into the body of the hat