By Jessica Alyea
Part 2 — Lisa Lake-Roedemein & Helen Overfield
Hat designers from close as well as far post us their best creations for our Derby issue. We asked these experts the chapeau questions y'all demand to know to position your best brim frontwards this Derby season.
The designers:
Lisa Lake-Roedemein founded Madam Foo Foo Couture inward 2009 every bit a undertaking of her beloved for fashion as well as horses. H5N1 component subdivision of profits from her chapeau creations teach toward Thoroughbred retirement, retraining, as well as rescue. She lives as well as plant inward Kentucky, as well as her designs are available inward Louisville at Rodes for Her, Rodeo Drive, Merci Boutique as well as the Brown Hotel.
Helen Overfield started Hats Off yesteryear Helen inward 2014, but she’s been ‘unofficially’ creating hats for to a greater extent than than 25 years. She gives each of her handcrafted Kentucky creations a Derby-related name, such every bit “Legacy Lily,” “Pink inward the Paddock,” “Southern Sweetie,” or “Go Big or Go Home,” as well as each chapeau comes amongst 2 betting numbers for the wearer to endeavour her luck with.
Do y'all accept whatsoever pilus suggestions for certainly hats?
Lisa: I similar the romantic, side-swept ponytail worn amongst large hats.
Helen: Many women practise ponytails or side ponytails. If y'all accept bangs, it's best to habiliment them nether the brim of your hat. The chapeau is your focal point. Don't overdo the hairstyle as well as accessories.
What trends are hot this year?
Lisa: While fascinators are all the same popular, many women are returning to the traditional chapeau amongst a large brim.
Helen: Feathers, flowers, as well as netting. Bold colors as well as colors that complement — intend “a pop of color” versus “matchy-matchy.”
How practise elevation as well as size play into chapeau choice?
Helen: It is all well-nigh scale as well as proportion. Someone amongst smaller features tin habiliment smaller-brimmed hats amend than a someone amongst larger features, piece wider-brim hats tend to expect amend on women amongst larger features. But it actually is best to expect inward the mirror — y'all tin straight off run into if it is complementing the shape of your aspect upward or detracting from it.
What is your best advice for wearing or buying a hat?
Helen: Wear something comfortable that makes y'all experience confident. That is the most of import thing. Don’t habiliment a tight fascinator that hurts your caput as well as hence much that y'all demand to potable about other mint julep only to suffer the fashion. Keep inward heed that wide-brimmed hats tin run inward diverse sizes, as well as hence if y'all demand chapeau record to arrive smaller, or to accept it stretched out, it is best to intend of that earlier y'all are en road to the track! Often the place of your seats volition create upward one's heed the mode of chapeau y'all wear. In the infield or grandstand, a to a greater extent than casual chapeau volition last fine. On Millionaire's Row or inward the Mansion or Clubhouse, a to a greater extent than formal chapeau is de rigueur.
Find to a greater extent than chapeau advice inward Part 1 of this series. Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/
Part 2 — Lisa Lake-Roedemein & Helen Overfield
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Kentucky Derby Festival princess Andi Dahmer is wearing: Hat yesteryear Hats Off! By Helen, $155; Earrings available at Davis Jewelers, $240. Photos yesteryear Melissa Donald |
Hat designers from close as well as far post us their best creations for our Derby issue. We asked these experts the chapeau questions y'all demand to know to position your best brim frontwards this Derby season.
The designers:
Lisa Lake-Roedemein founded Madam Foo Foo Couture inward 2009 every bit a undertaking of her beloved for fashion as well as horses. H5N1 component subdivision of profits from her chapeau creations teach toward Thoroughbred retirement, retraining, as well as rescue. She lives as well as plant inward Kentucky, as well as her designs are available inward Louisville at Rodes for Her, Rodeo Drive, Merci Boutique as well as the Brown Hotel.
Helen Overfield started Hats Off yesteryear Helen inward 2014, but she’s been ‘unofficially’ creating hats for to a greater extent than than 25 years. She gives each of her handcrafted Kentucky creations a Derby-related name, such every bit “Legacy Lily,” “Pink inward the Paddock,” “Southern Sweetie,” or “Go Big or Go Home,” as well as each chapeau comes amongst 2 betting numbers for the wearer to endeavour her luck with.
Do y'all accept whatsoever pilus suggestions for certainly hats?
Lisa: I similar the romantic, side-swept ponytail worn amongst large hats.
Helen: Many women practise ponytails or side ponytails. If y'all accept bangs, it's best to habiliment them nether the brim of your hat. The chapeau is your focal point. Don't overdo the hairstyle as well as accessories.
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| Fascinator yesteryear Madam Foo Foo, $390. |
What trends are hot this year?
Lisa: While fascinators are all the same popular, many women are returning to the traditional chapeau amongst a large brim.
Helen: Feathers, flowers, as well as netting. Bold colors as well as colors that complement — intend “a pop of color” versus “matchy-matchy.”
How practise elevation as well as size play into chapeau choice?
Helen: It is all well-nigh scale as well as proportion. Someone amongst smaller features tin habiliment smaller-brimmed hats amend than a someone amongst larger features, piece wider-brim hats tend to expect amend on women amongst larger features. But it actually is best to expect inward the mirror — y'all tin straight off run into if it is complementing the shape of your aspect upward or detracting from it.
What is your best advice for wearing or buying a hat?
Helen: Wear something comfortable that makes y'all experience confident. That is the most of import thing. Don’t habiliment a tight fascinator that hurts your caput as well as hence much that y'all demand to potable about other mint julep only to suffer the fashion. Keep inward heed that wide-brimmed hats tin run inward diverse sizes, as well as hence if y'all demand chapeau record to arrive smaller, or to accept it stretched out, it is best to intend of that earlier y'all are en road to the track! Often the place of your seats volition create upward one's heed the mode of chapeau y'all wear. In the infield or grandstand, a to a greater extent than casual chapeau volition last fine. On Millionaire's Row or inward the Mansion or Clubhouse, a to a greater extent than formal chapeau is de rigueur.
Find to a greater extent than chapeau advice inward Part 1 of this series. Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/