1940s Elmar Designs New York Ostrich Feather & Net Veil Hat w Bow designer-mary-mcfadden Reference Photos: Kate Moss at

Reference Photos: Kate Moss at Cannes Film Festival 2016

The waist nips in and there is a panel of the same fabric the bust is made out of under the waist seam that skims over the tops of the hips

Sleeves: 24" from shoulder seam to cuff

shapes cut to flatter

for his part

1940s Elmar Designs New York Ostrich Feather & Net Veil Hat w Bow designer-mary-mcfadden Reference Photos: Kate Moss atThis late 1940s topper is very chic and dramatic. Elmar Designs was a small millinery shop that operated out of New York from the 1940s to the 1960s. One of their hats is held in the Indianapolis Museum of Art's permanent collection and they seem to have centered primarily around making hats with veils. This example of their work is quite charming. The top portion is a flat disc that has deep charcoal grey and black feathers placed around an center