Category: Fashion Hats

Hattingdon the hat wearing cartoon horses by Vivian Grant, wearing her favourite fashion hats.

Hugs and kisses with Aimee

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Aimee Hattingdon trio,

Aimee is the first “sweetheart hat” Vivian blogged on WordPress. She got the name for the hat’s design shape when it was finished and she thought to herself, “That’s a “sweetheart of a hat”. The year . . . 2017.

Original Sweetheart Hat

Like most budding artists and designers — especially self taught ones — Vivian has come a long way since her first Hattingdons. She reimagined the design in 2019. Here is what a Sweetheart Hat looks like today.

Aimee Hattingdon Pink
Aimee Hattingdon Black.
Aimee Hattingdon Black.
Aimee Hattingdon Sweetheart hat in Teal.
Aimee Hattingdon Teal.

Thank you for spending time with us. We hope it brings you a “hatful of smiles”.

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Flashback Friday with Whitney

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These are such lovely hats and some of our most popular. Hattingdon looks wonderful in them.Vivian first created the Whitney hat in 2016. It was an immediate hit. Then she reimagined it a couple of years later — in 2018. From first to last, these designs have been an all time top favorite, Let’s take a look.

Whitney the First

Here is the first Whitney design. It has a sort of safari thing going on. Oh. Vivian designed a butterfly to go with it. Lovely.

Whitney the First.

The Whitney design above became very popular very quickly. Several years later, Vivian reimagined the Whitney hat, and wow. A superstar was born.

Whitney the Second

Isn’t she lovely? This design has never moved out of the top ten most popular Hattingdon designs of all time. We hope you enjoyed seeing her again, and she brings you a “hatful of smiles”.

Updated Oct 8, 2024

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Autumn and a poem

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by Charmaine Jewell

Vivian loves poetry, especially A. E. Houseman who wrote a beauty about Autumn. Before we talk about that, here is a hat Vivian was inspired to create in the Fall of 2019 which she named Autumn.

Autumn Hattingdon colorful fall hat from Fall leaves.

By the way, the above is a recreation. The flash drive that the original Autumn was stored on was lost. At long, long last Vivian had time to recreate it — in all its glorious colors. Wow! We love it and hope you love it too.

Now . . . the poem.

A. E. Houseman

Now the poem.

A. E HOUSEMAN

Tell me not here, it needs not saying

A. E. Housman

Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
What tune the enchantress plays
In aftermaths of soft September
Or under blanching mays,
For she and I were long acquainted
Knowing all her ways.

On russet floors, by waters idle,
The pine lets fall its cone;
The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing
In leafy dells alone;
And traveller’s joy beguiles in Autumn
Hearts that lost their own.
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Autumn was the season of choice by poet A. E. Housman (1859-1936).

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The artist in us

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Curtis and Harper Hattingdon cartoon horses.

Hey, did you see this? “Oldest known human drawing was discovered, a hashtag-like abstract drawing with red ochre, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in Nature.’ Wow.

Hattingdon creator Vivian has a creative mind, no doubt it, but she never thought of herself as an artist or dreamed she ever would or could be. She couldn’t even draw. Then she came across the Photoshop program, ordered it, taught herself to use it, and the rest as they say is history.

Curtis the First

The first Hattingdon she created was Curtis.

Curtis Hattingdon.
Curtis Hattingdon.

Curtis was a huge hit, and gained quite a large following. Then one of her friends suggested she make a “lady” Hattingdon. Again, she was not quite sure she could do it. But she could . . . and did. Harper was born.

Harper Hattingdon.
Harper Hattingdon.

What is that old saying? “You never know until you try”.

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