Fascinator
A fascinator is a festive headdress worn by women and is particularly popular in the UK . Unlike a classic hat, it does not have a decoration-independent protective effect from the weather and its own holding power and must therefore be actively attached with aids such as hairpins or combs.
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Fascinators are fashionably derived from classic women's hats, but only have a purely decorative effect. The design is therefore up to the limitless imagination of the fashion designers. Some are still hat-like in design (but without their protective function), other models tower up like sculptures on the wearer's head or consist of several individual parts that play around the head starting from a headband. What they all have in common is to focus on the woman's head (and often hairstyle).
Fascinators on formal occasions
A fascinator can basically be worn instead of a hat on all occasions when a hat is worn. In the UK, such occasions have traditionally been wedding receptions, horse races, or any other occasion when formal day wear is worn. In contrast to the hat, fascinators can be combined well with different hairstyles. A formalization of the dress code for the royal box at the Royal Ascot horse race requires women to wear a real hat from 2012 onwards, fascinators are no longer permitted for formal reasons. In previous years, women had replaced the traditional hat with the more popular fascinator. In the publicly accessible part of the visitor stands, fascinators are still permitted instead of the hat.
A fascinator is not to be confused with a cocktail hat , although they are similar in appearance. A cocktail is only worn by women for evening wear.
Fascinator of the Princess Beatrice of York
In Germany, the fashion of the fascinators became known to a wider public through reporting on the wedding of William Mountbatten-Windsor and Catherine Middleton in April 2011. In addition, numerous of the female wedding guests with fascinators appeared. The Fascinator of Beatrice of York , a headdress made by the Irish hatter Philip Treacy on the occasion of the wedding for the British princess, caused a particular stir . The fascinator, made of beige-colored fabric in the form of a three-dimensional baroque ribbon ornament, caused a stir because of its unusual shape. The New York Times added the headdress to the "75 things New Yorkers talked about in 2011". Time Magazine declared the Fascinator the “Top 3 Meme” of 2011. The accessory, ridiculed as “pretzel”, “antler”, “toilet seat” or “sticking plaster gone wild” was the subject of caricatures and joke pictures. A Facebook page with the title “Princess Beatrice's ridiculous Royal Wedding hat” found 143,000 fans in a short time. Princess Beatrice used the great public interest in the fascinator for charitable purposes and auctioned the headdress for the equivalent of around 99,000 euros on the eBay platform . She donated the proceeds to a children's charity.
- Range of variation
Black fascinator by Luke Song
Luke Song's Venus 2 Fascinator in Black
Myer Autumn Winter 2012 Collection Launch
Jeannie Mai in Sydney
designed by an Aboriginal woman
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Individual evidence
- ^ New Yorks Times : 3rd Princess Beatrice's Fascinator , December 7, 2011, accessed March 4, 2012
- ↑ BBC news : Fascinators in ban at Royal Ascot's Royal Enclosure , January 18, 2012, accessed March 2, 2012
- ^ New York Times: The 75 Things New Yorkers Talked About in 2011 , December 28, 2011, accessed March 4, 2012
- ↑ Nick Carbone: Princess Beatrice's Fascinator. In: Specials. Time, December 7, 2011, accessed April 5, 2012 .
- ^ New York Times: The Perched, the Frothy, the Fascinator , May 6, 2011, accessed March 4, 2012
- ^ The Time: the highs and lows, the good and the bad , December 7, 2011, accessed March 4, 2012
literature
- Louise Turner: Fashion Trims: Customize and Create Clothes and Accessories . Creative Publishing Int'l, 2008, pp. 48-51, (description of the manufacture of a fascinator) ISBN 9781589233836 .
