NolaBird Tiny Top Hats

Everyone looks fancier with a tiny hat on their head!

NolaBird Tiny Top Hats describes the person she wants to meet as: Anybody who can give me a reason NOT to wear a tiny hat!

Designer J-Bird (also known as Jamie), along with the Marci (the owner the most glorious wig shop ever) designed the first tiny top hat in December of 2001 as a complement to their New Year's Eve costumes. In the past six years, J-Bird has perfected her tiny hat design and has been outfitting people with hats ever since!

I picked up my first hat in January 2006, as the final accessory for my Alice in Wonderland costume-- it was a crystal studded lace flower headband. In many ways, I wondered how I could spend so much money on such a frivolous accessory and worried I'd never have the opportunity to wear it again. But with something so lovely, I have since found many, many more chances to wear it!

It became no question that on my most recent trip to New Orleans I had one agenda in mind: To Get The Tiny Top Hat I Didn't Buy In the Past. My heart nearly broke when I went in to Fifi Mahoney's though, and there were no J-Bird hats that had struck my fancy! Certainly, there were a few that were lovely and cute enough, but none that screamed Ashe Mischief. The wonderful lasses and lads that worked at Fifi's assured me that J-Bird was bringing in more hats that weekend.

On Saturday, imagine my surprise when J-Bird herself came out toting not one, but two glorious tiny top hats that not only screamed my name, but threw temper tantrums to be on my head! One is the gorgeous turqoise one, featured on J-Bird below. It was made of a vintage evening gown, complete with beading and sequins on it (it was one of her personal favorites!). The second (featured on my funny face), is a delightful hot pink and black polka dot print one. When I saw it, I about nearly died in happiness-- imagine, finding a tiny top hat that would match one of my favorite pairs of shoes! The likelihood of something that incredible happening is absurd and rare, to say the least.