For My Oh So Helpful Friends

[gurdymonkey]

  Particularly anyone who has never seen a tareginu no mushi. Behold the Japanese equivalent of a burqua. Do you see why it is somewhat problematic now?

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[laurensa.livejournal.com]

That hat is so big, I'm betting you need monster hat pins through the band to keep it on - and heaven help you if the wind comes up... you might learn to fly without wings!>>

Great shades of Sally Field, that's a big hat!

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

THIS, my dear, is the SMALL hat. (The big hat is much wider and flatter - and SUCKS in high winds as I discovered at Estrella this year.)
http://www.wodefordhall.com/windyday.jpg

No hat pins - there's a chin harness arrangement instead.

I wore this one without the veil, but with a sheer kosode draped over my head like so at Pennsic, and the hat on top. http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/koohoo/journal/no127/image4.jpg