Hat hair!
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Hat hair is where you join both hair and hat together, so that when the sim puts it on, the hair is perfect in the hat! What makes it special is that the hair stays the normal colour your sim has, and you can select the swatches of the hat; if made the traditional way of making cc, you would have to choose either;or - you can't have both hair swatches and hat swatches.
I've always been frustrated with hair and hats not working together how I want! My good friend inlovewithregencyera has made several hat hairs, and was gracious enough to teach me how! (thank you so much 😭) Theirs are, of course, fully from scratch, and I'm not quite at that level yet 😂:
Today, I present two popular bonnets - Linzlu's Birthday Bonnet, Moonsimmers' recolour version of this; as well as Lilchamomil's Regency Bonnet; all of which I have paired with hair by Buzzard.
The shape of these bonnets are just like ones really worn in the 19th century, which I have seen in photographs (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes &c.), as well as paintings.
In the Linzlu bonnet, I have used Buzzard's "1860s hair", and in the Lilchamomil bonnet, I have used both the "1850s hair", and "Peggy hair", by Buzzard.
I spent quite a bit of time moving and shaping flowers in the Linzlu bonnet, and I ended up putting in a few more!
I really love the Lilchamomil bonnet; it's definitely Recency - not Victorian - I have seen it in some paintings; but, I know in the Victorian era, similar ones were worn - which is why I wanted to put a Victorian hair style in it.
There's 34 swatches in the lilchamomil bonnet, half with white inside, half with cream.
There's 22 swatches in Linzlu's original "Southern Birthday" bonnet, and 41 in Moonsimmers' "Harriet Birthday" bonnet.
You can download all the originals here, if you want them as well:
Regency bonnet - part of the Isolde set by lilchamomil
Southern Birthday bonnet - by Linzlu
Harriet Birthday bonnet - part of the Britechester Square Collection by Moonsimmers
1850s Hairs - by Buzzard
1860s Hairs - by Buzzard
Peggy Hair - part of the Margaret Hairs set by Buzzard
Amusez-vous!!
Update 15/09/2026: Updated hair colour files, ensuring every colour has the correct tag, hoping that this will fix colour issues plaguing me! Please delete your old versions first!
Update 11/09/2025: Corrected thumbnails for lilchamomil files: first thumbnail is my custom one, subsequent have no custom (previous versions accidentally had "custom" non-hair colour icons).
Update 29/08/2025: Corrected weird cheek shadow caused by hathair
Update 26/07/2025: Corrected hair colours on Peggy hair - sorry I didn't pick this up ages ago! Greys and Blondes should show correctly now - please redownload the Peggy file.
Update 29/05/2025: Fixed some embedding issues, please re-download and replace previously downloaded files.
