Bespoke Silk Plush Top Hat

[Tibor]

While I can't yet reveal much information about production I wanted to share my new bespoke silk plush top hat in which I collaborated with another hatter to recreate the phoenix from the ashes. I chose the extreme full crown as the first model made again, as I personally find it the most elegant of all top hat styles. Yes, it is silk plush with a gossamer frame, the same way it was made a century or so ago.

 

[Hₑighthere]

Interesting! It seems you're ahead of this project.

 

[comrade]

A century ago? With the bulbous crown it looks like something out of Dickens,
from the first third of the ninteenth century.

Probably 1840s-50s

 

[JJ Katz]

Very interesting. I have a couple of questions:

1) where did you find "deadstock" silk plush, if I may ask?
2) The fellow on Reddit... Has he really figured out how to weave silk plush?

 

[Tibor]

I was speaking of the production method. Under contractual agreement I am not able to speak about production now. Comrade, this particular style crown with the slim waistline was a bespoke offering typically associated with the 1890's-1919. Although on rare occasional order into the late 1950's by certain companies.

 

[comrade]

I was speaking of the production method. Under contractual agreement I am not able to speak about production now. Comrade, this particular style crown with the slim waistline was a bespoke offering typically associated with the 1890's-1919. Although on rare occasional order into the late 1950's by certain companies.

It may well have been a Bespoke offering long after top hats where the general style. However,
decades before this type of crown and waistline were common. In fact, the Mad Hatter was shown
in a similar hat in 1865:

 

[Tibor]

Full Flared Bell Crown Top hats started in popularity in the late 1810's, however the added slim waistline only came into play around 1850 when long oval blocks became common.