Recreating a Silly 1940's Hat // Floral Tilted Toppers

Today I'm recreating a vintage hat style seen in one of my Alden's mail order catalogs from Spring/Summer 1946! Is it ridiculous? Yes. Do I want to wear it here in suburbia just for the looks on folks faces? Also yes. Follow along as I make what Alden's called a "Bewitching Floral Disk"... A terminology note, the term fascinator did not exist in the 1940's! All hats were just...hats. From Wikipedia: "The use of the term "fascinator" to describe a particular form of late 20th- and early 21st-century millinery emerged towards the end of the late 20th century, possibly as a term for 1990s designs inspired by the small 1960s cocktail hats, which were designed to perch upon the highly coiffed hairstyles of the period. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a use of the word (in quotation marks) from the Australian Women's Weekly of January 1979, but here it appears to have been used in a slightly variant sense, to describe a woman's hat incorporating a small veil (in other words, a cocktail hat). However, the term was certainly in use in its modern sense by 1999." Fun facts! My Pinterest board of hats: https://www.pinterest.com/bmesposito/hats-hats-hats/ A tutorial for how to make the black velvet pillbox: http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.com/2015/08/working-on-new-pillbox-hat-aka-how-to.html http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.com/2015/09/finishing-up-pillbox-hat.html Millinery wire purchased from Humboldt Haberdashery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HumboldtHaberdashery Vintage flo