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  • New York, NY - May 3, 2019. A man in a fedora with Ryuji Tanaka's oils in the Axel Vervoordt Gallery at the Frieze Art Fair on New York City's Randalls Island.
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  • Pressing a cord into place with a runner to form the joint between the crown and brim of a straw hat.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Two women in floral dresses and colorful fascinators at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with a hat festooned with carrots carries an oversized carrot on a pole at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Women use the glass of a bus shelter as mirrors to adjust their outfits at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Women use the glass of a bus shelter as mirrors to adjust their outfits at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with a hat bristling with artist's paintbrushes at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with long, bright yellow hair, wearing a dress and carrying an Easter basket fillwd with lollipops at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A woman with a black headdress and gauzy wings at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • Dina "Cha Cha" Pisani wearing a decorated straw top hat, and surrounded by her creations, in her shop.
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  • Dina "Cha Cha" Pisani wearing a decorated straw top hat, and surrounded by her creations, in her shop.
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  • Fancy hats and fascinators on display.
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  • Feathers in jars on a shelf of trimmings.
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  • Hand sewing a bow onto the hatband of a straw hat.
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  • A felt hat cooling from being dried in the oven.
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  • A wooden runner, used to force cords into place to form the joint between the crown and brim, along with a cord and a brush.
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  • A wooden block made up of brim and crown sections ready for a hat to be shaped over it into a fedora. In the background, a straw hat body is being steamed.
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  • Stretching a just-steamed felt hat body over a wooden block to shape the crown and brim. Many of the block are old, and difficult to replace.
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  • The sewing machines are mostly old Singers, with cast iron frames and mechanisms of machined metal—still durable, useful and repairable. Stacked on the table are a selection of specialty feet for the machine.
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  • Illustrations of headgear from arond the world serve as insiration, along with a Mexican-inspired skull mask.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A young woman wears a  wide-brimmed hat with a floral arrangement that trails down the back at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A young woman wears a straw hat at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A man covered a thousands of tiny bits of colorful things at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Two women and a man elaborately dressed  at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Activist Marni Halasa wears a costume decorated by pink flamingoes and carries a sign reading "Birds of a feather resist together"  at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A man wears a costume topped by a television set with rabbit ears at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman with a hat topped by a bird's nest with chicks, and with a huge spray of feathers and gauze, at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Three women in elaborate hats pose for photos of the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. New York fixture Oswaldo Gomez in elaborate costume and hat with a parade-goer at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A bow-tied man wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat with long sweeping feathers New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman from The Milliners Guild wears a hat decorated in brightly colored pipe cleaners at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Wanda J. Chambers (left) and Patricia Ann Parenti of The Milliners Guild at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue. Parenti is a glover.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Three woman from The Milliners Guid wear hats of their own creation  at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue. From left to right: Linda Ashton, Juliette Chauvin, and Ellen Christine.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman with hair dyed purple wears a hat with a huge purple flower and sprays of pink buds  at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman wears a hat covered in brightly colored butterflies  at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A woman in an elaborate hat designed by Jodie Trapani of The City Chicks at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. A man smokes an orange cigar in the shape of a carrot, complete with greens, at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue. In his jacket pocket, in lieu of a pocket square, are two carrots.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A man with a red fan, a colorful hat and a large white umbrella in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A man with a red fan, a colorful hat and a large white umbrella in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A couple dressed for the day, the woman wearing a tall, wide and elaborate floral hat  in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A woman wearing a bee costume with two signs on it: "Bee" and  "Happy" in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. An Asian woman wearing a floral print cheongsam wears a hat topped with a palanquin bearing an Easter bunny, and carried by more bunnies in annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. Two religious proselytizers with signs and a banner try to attract attention on Fifth Avenue in the middle of the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A woman with an elegant hat topped by three pastel birds in front of St. Patrick's Cathedal in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A fan of the New York Jets football team wears a green jet piloted by a frog with a red beer cup in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A man with a bizarre and colorful costume covered in decorative eggs, sculptural appendages, and assorted bits of color, on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral at the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A woman wears a very large brimmed hat, bordered by yellow feathers, and a man with a multi-tierd hat with Easter baskets, on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral at the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A man wearing an elaborate costume including an Easter basket hat and a multitude of stuffed animals in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival.
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. Gandparents with their granddaughter, all wearing colorful hats, in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral at the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival
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  • New York, NY, USA-27 March 2016. A group of behatted people pose for photographers in the annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival, as the Fifth Avenue crowds pack the street in front of St. Patrick's Catherdral.
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  • A man dressed as a woman, wearing a sculptured purple gauze hat with pink flowers.
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  • A couple in traditional outfits of the early 1900s.
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  • A woman with a bee on her bonnet. Many of the hats in the parade featured birds, bugs and flowers.
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  • A man with a multi-colored beard, an aqua cape, and a large headdress with a live bird.
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  • A couple sporting hats featuring birds, his wild, hers caged.
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  • An attendee leaving the Mercedes-Benz New York Fall Fashion Week show wearing a black fedora and a fur jacket.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A lepidoptrist and his prey at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A woan with a parasol trimmed with flowers at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man costumed as an angel with twelve commandments for the 21st Century at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with a large headdress in the shape of an eagle at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. An ornate hat apparently made entirely of colorful feathers at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. An ornate hat apparently made entirely of colorful feathers at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A  couple with ornate wedding-cake hats at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A  couple with ornate wedding-cake hats alongside a man with a sign asking Cardinal Dolan to protect children from pedophiles outside St. Patrick's Cathedral at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A woman with bright red hair and a black hat trimmed with black flowers next to a man with a hat bristling with artist's paintbrushes at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A woman with a giant flower for a hat and a man with a hat dressed in colorful mechanical springs, self-descrived as the latest in spring fashion,  at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A couple with elaborate hats at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Women use the glass of a bus shelter as mirrors to adjust their outfits at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. An African-American man in an oversized bright red Afro at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Two men, both wearing tall floral hats, and one  wearing a suit with a fabric decorated with birds, at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with a Venetian gondola on his hat at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with an Easter basket hat and two woman in floral hats and dresses at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A man with two dogs dressed in rabbit-topped hats at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Three men in elaborate hats and colorful suits at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A crowd of people with LGBTQ hats on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. A woman with a red poppy hat stands next to a woman with a black headdress and gauzy wings at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • New York, NY - 21 April 2019. Two men with bunny ears and white ruffs at the Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on New York's Fifth Avenue.
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  • A balsa head used for trimming hats sits in a window.
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  • Trimming the excess from the edge of a straw hat after the edge has been sewn.
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  • A pheasant wing with its plumage intact hanging on the shop wall.
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  • Sewing the edge of the brim of a straw hat. The edge is rolled over a thick monofilament line to help it keep its shape.
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  • Removing a trimmed hat from a block.
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  • Trimming the excess from the brim of a felt hat. The hat bodies are oversized, to allow for varying crown heights and brim widths.
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  • Hand sewing the finishing touches on the sweatband of a straw hat. Behind Cha Cha is an old chain-stitch sewing machine with a high arch and a short, narrow free arm, ideal for reaching into the crowns of hats.
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  • A collection of hat molds, including blocks for brims and crowns, and risers to make the crowns deeper.
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  • A straw hat rests on a stack of wooden hat blocks.
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  • Tying a block called a tipper in place to hold the crease in the crown of a straw fedora.
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  • Shaping the crease on the crown of a straw fedora. Once the shape has been established, a wooden block called a tipper will be tied in place to hold the crease.
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  • Pressing a cord into place with a runner to form the joint between the crown and brim of a straw hat.
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  • Shaping a steamed straw hat body over a block.
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  • Sections of blocks are stacked to form brims and crowns.
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  • Sections of blocks are stacked to form brims and crowns.
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  • After shaping, the damp hat is placed in an oven to dry.
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  • A cord called a rope is cinched around the joint of the crown and brim, and is forced into place with a wooden runner, a tool with a groove cut in its end to fit over the rope and to force it in place.
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  • A hat body, shaped with only a suggestion of a crown and brim, on a rack over a steam generator, being steamed prior to shaping.
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  • Sewing a headband into a straw hat on an old chain-stitch sewing machine with a high open arch and a short, narrow free arm.
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  • Ribbons and trim, some on rolls, some leftovers, await use.
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  • A straw hat on a block after steaming, with a tipper block pressing the center crease in place. On the left is a rack over a steam generator; hanging from the hat block are cords used to form the fold between the crown and the brim, as well as to shape the edge of the brim.
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  • New York, NY - April 16, 2017. Two women under an umbrella, wearing a headpiece that harkens to the 1930s at New York's annual Easter Bonnet Parade and Festival on Fifth Avenue.
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