Latest Bonnet.

[Todd Bradshaw]

Looks really good Mike. It's funny how many comments they get around town. We have a T-bird convertible that is our summer "recreational vehicle" and I keep a herringbone tweed bonnet in it - otherwise after a couple miles of flapping around, your hair hurts. We've had people from the sidewalk yell out "I really like your hat!". One day I pulled into the loading dock at my wife's lab to drop her off and a guy walked past and said "The car is nice, the lovely woman is nice, but I really covet the hat." Pretty funny.

I'm currently debating the idea of making one from tartan. On one hand, I really dislike those floppy tartan tams made with wedge-shaped pieces of tartan and seriously wonder if bonnets simply should not be made from tartan. On the other hand, I just wonder what it would look like to do it differently, and I have fabric on hand to try one, just to see. I figure that there is at least a small chance of coming up with something that looks classy, instead of trashy, but I'll probably have to try one to find out.