Little Bow Peep

Little Bow Peep :: Tinto 1848 // C-Type Plate // No flashThe Spring Racing Carnival is an excellent time to go shopping for hats in Melbourne. Whatever your budget, you are sure to find something highly fashionable (witty and cutting-edge millinery), merely serviceable (a wide-brimmed straw bedecked in overblown faux silk blooms), or downright hideous (a despicable piece of sinnamay trimmed in rooster feathers that by rights should be thrown to the floor and stamped out of existence).

And if you search thoroughly and carefully you can discover something in between, a hat that doesn’t scream Spring Racing Carnival, or a headband that will last the distance.

Take a Bow :: Loftus // C-Type Plate // No flashI found this sculpted confection by Max Alexander in the department store David Jones. Made from wide, woven ribbon-like straw edged in grosgrain, it is deftly twisted to form a complicated bow, and attached to a headband, perches on top of the head just so. It is decorative without being fussy; a girlish bow that is strong, not prissy.

I would even wear it if the weather cooperated.