Project 365 ~ #176

#176 of 365 Daily Drawings

 

Inspiration: Bes-Ben hats from the 1940s

 

Result: Formage Fashion

 

 

Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2” x 11”)

 

Location: Home

 

Note: The Chicago milliner, Benjamin B. Green-Field created some of the most whimsical hats you can imagine.

 

You can find samples of his work here: pinterest.com/mrobak/vintage-hat-bes-ben/

 

and page 10 of this 1945 LIFE magazine found here: books.google.ca/books?id=fEgEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontc...

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