The Chicago Flower & Garden Show ended this past weekend and while there wasn't much to see for an average gardener like myself, I did like this hat. I've been calling it a gardening hat, but it really is a piece of art designed by Janette Gerber that is TRON meets the Red Hat Society. It is sculpted out of fiberglass and programed LED lighting to change colors. Starting seeds with LED lights is a big trend right now, especially among younger gardeners, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see garden clothing and tools embedded with LED lights.
Here's a video from my gardening channel on YouTube so you can see this botanical themed hat in action. Two more photographs of the hat changing colors below the video.
I would rock the hell out of a crazy hat that lights like this and changed colors while I was gardening at night. Imagine if your garden tools had embedded LED lights. Losing your tools in the garden would be a thing of the past because you could go out at night and watch them glowing in the darkness like a lighting bug signalling for a mate. It's too bad they exhibited this hat at the show this year because the theme for next year's Chicago Flower & Garden Show is Hort Couture, where this hat would bee right at home.
LMAO! You're so going to get a group of teenagers camped out across from your house at night for the show. Be a dear and make sure to play some Zeppelin for them so it's at least a proper light show!
ReplyDeleteI would so wear this hat!
A friend of mine wore her bike helmet with a built-in light to garden at night. Less classy, but more sassy! ;-)
ReplyDeletedude, I would so rock that hat on night rides with the Southbay Cruisers bicycle group...
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is an attention grabbing hat! Love it!
ReplyDeleteLOL! too cute. thanks for a laugh. i needed one today.
ReplyDeleteWell, this is the most interesting thig I've ever seen! I would like to see one in person, for sure...it is so artsy too! I think Michelangelo would have liked one!
ReplyDeleteHort couture nothing. That's hat cute-ure! I wonder if they'll have them at Canada Blooms?
ReplyDeleteHello hat ladies above. I forgot to include this link: http://womensjourneysinfiber.com/7-Hats/Hats.htm The hat is part of a larger exhibit of hats (not as high-tech) by a collective of women artists who work in fibers. Check out their website for more cool stuff.
ReplyDeleteThose dangling things do look disturbingly like sea anemone tentacles, though. At least in the photo.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Right? They look like eels or something equally creepy.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool set of hats!! I'd love to watch you wearing one while gardening. :-)
ReplyDeleteWho gardens at night? Seriously? I mean, I sometimes wander around the garden in the late evening, glass of wine in hand--purely to appreciate the moon over the bathouse, of course--and I might randomly pull a weed or tweak a spent flower off the plant or something. But never do I do any major gardening. Probably night gardening deserves a whole post of its own about who does it...and when and why?
ReplyDeleteShady, Maybe instead of wearing them I'll start designing them. :0)
ReplyDeleteRebecca, Hello. I garden at night for a couple of different reasons. 1)I melt in the sun. I believe you ladies call it 'glistening' but I sweat, like a lot. 2) I live in a bad neighborhood and figure the chances of getting shot are lessened by being able to duck and hide in the shadows.
There are other benefits too, light white blooms or light-colored foliage that looks nicer at night than during the day. And blooms like Oriental lilies that let out the most amazing scents in the evening and night.
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I wonder how much light it gives off though? Looks like it would still be hard to see at night wearing one of those. I want lights in my garden boots!
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ReplyDeleteLove that idea about the LED lights to find tools. They're kind of like socks in the dryer, never to be seen again!
Eileen
Umm.... I need that hat. I would wear it day and night, and be dubbed the crazy garden lady of our hood. Thanks for sharing such an epic gardening hat.
ReplyDeleteI expect my neighborhood calls for as much ducking in daylight! Time for the I-live-in-the-worst-hood throwdown: ZERO BLOCKS AWAY: I've had police caution tape tied to the hedge at my end of the alley (a shooting, but no one died). HALF A BLOCK AWAY: as the ghetto birds hovered, a murder suspect was arrested three houses up the street as police bullhorned 'do NOT come out of your houses! Do NOT approach the police dog! It WILL bite!' A BLOCK OR SO AWAY: someone shot BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! as I was eating pizza with my brother and his girlfriend; "Stay put, I said, that was five. He's probably got at least one left." THREE BLOCKS AWAY: someone was fatally shot at the Ralphs. And (just next door) the drug dealers do business catty corner to the house at the chicken place. Or at least so I assume, being so lawabiding a type that no one even offered me drugs in high school.
ReplyDeleteThe finishing is so fine. The design to neat and cool! I hope you'll have one... great hat for night garden party hehe...
ReplyDeleteI dunno...I got a good chuckle out of this, but I'm not entirely sure I'd embrace it as art or as hat couture. If it were April 1 I might have thought you were having us on. Like Anonymous, the leaves reminded me of tentacles. Shades of Triffids!
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