For a Prof Elemental gig I quickly knocked up a pair of goggle and hat.
The hat is an ex-wedding rental hat I brought cheap one evening while still a student (passing shop an...ZOMGHAT!!!). I replaced the grey hat band with a brown snakeskin belt from a charity shop and stitched some EL wire on to it. This is my first time working with EL (I had been looking for any excuse to play with it ) and I was pleasantly surprised by how thin and easy to bend it is (don't know why it was thicker in my minds eye). It's attached to the hat with fishing line (Taking the recommendation of Daniel Luke O'malley who used black thread). Fishing line is surprisingly easy to sew with altho you do need a needle with a big enough eye. This wasn't my first time sewing with fishing line having sewn caving over suits back together with it before. To get though the hat I ended up using a leather needle (triangular in section at the tip) form one of those cheap "many odd needles" packs you get in supermarkets. This was fairly easy altho I did have to reach for the pliers when I got to the brim. This did leave some fairly big marks in the hat mind, not one for a had worth actual money. The inverter is stashed in a little leather pouch that sits on the brim.
Some pretty rough sewing there.
The goggles were sections of bog roll tube cut according to this tutorial to give the eye cups. The key bit is that paper template shape with the sinusoidal peak in the middle. They then have a cut down deodorant cap inserted for extra strength (turns out the brand I use happened to be a good fit for the bog roll I use) before being faced with steel mesh (frying anti-spatter screen) and wrapped in leather from a £1 charity shop handbag (A long haired and be-bearded gent like me shopping for handbags got some odd looks i can tell you!) The silver rings/bezels were from the same handbag and used to attach the handels. The whole thing is held together with hot glue. The strap and nose bridge are made from £1 charity shop belt held on with yet more of the hot goo. Unfortunately the curve of the nose bridge means the hot glue want's to peel away from the nose band (as can be seen in the top picture). I should have riveted them together (even thought about it, couldn't find my riveter at the time) hindsight is a wonderful thing.
All in all, given the amount of time I spent on this I'm really please with how it came out.
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