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Cloche hats are back in fashion again – lets face it are "Roaring Twenties" covered just over and over again, as the fashion was so funny and so glamorous in those days. Bell bell means in French, and that is the shape of the hat. Featuring low over his eyes with a small margin, they just look like a bell. You can of felt or wool are made for the winter, or lighter materials such as canvas or straw for the summer. Sometimes you see them without a brim, often in the evening or wedding bells can be borderless. Decorations could flowers or abstract patterns such as zigzags. Lace, sequins, beads and feathers were used for evening or bridal wear. One could even wear your favorite brooches and dress clips on your cloche hats.
Now, Bell is back in the shops and I even saw the Governor-General a very stylish, black cloche hat on TV the other day. You can still original vintage cloche hats at very reasonable prices, but there are many designer so that they today. You could even knit yourself one! There are many reasons to wear a hat, cloche, and these are just a few.
1. Wear your hair in place Cloche to hold it while driving in your open top car. Cloche hats were awarded for the stay on his head at times when wide-brimmed hats were blown off a long time ago. They are very practical and warm and just as good today for the purpose.
2. Great to hide a bad day!
3. Why not wear a white lace bridal cloche for your wedding, you will be happy like a million dollars.
4. Cloche hats were made of beads or sequins for the evening, cocktails and dancing with the popular flapper dresses worn. You can still find vintage from, or reproductions, so why not throw 1920s jazz night, ideal a hen do, or a charity function. Dance the night away to the Charleston or Tango drinking cocktails from the Art Deco cocktail shaker and enjoy the feeling of roaring Twenty.
5. The best reason for wearing a cloche hat is that they are simply the most elegant, flattering and stylish hats ever, and women can each Age are taken into account. You simply can not go out of fashion.
Decolish is a website for fans and collectors of Art Deco, and lovers of vintage fashion.
http://www.decolish.com/ClocheHats.html
http://www.decolish.com/ArtDecoFashion.html
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