Last week, my friends and I were gearing up for the annual community festival, an event we looked forward to all year because we get to meet all our street friends that we grew up together that has either gotten married, moved out of the area either for work or school. This time, my group decided to dress up as character of the trending rich Nigerian aunties, We wanted to give the touch different Nigeria bubu gowns but with a signature of the awolowo cap to make it extra classy.
"The Awolowo cap was named after the great Awolowo because it became his signature cap which he wore regularly".
So we took it to the designers in the area but we couldn't get anyone that was less busy and could meet up with making all of our caps cause it was already a day to the event,The night before event, we were all at my place, stressing about the incomplete costume.
That’s when I had an idea, I suggested that we make the cap ourselves. My friends were skeptical at first, but desperate times called for creative measures. and that when my survival insistent thought I could do something Which I did, to be very honest am not so good with tailoring or cutting but I came from a long family of fashion designers from my dad to my siblings so we can say I have seen a lot from them
So I decided to save i and my friends since it's urgent so I picked one of the Aso oke material and told them to follow my lead.
Materials used
_ Cap material (for me I use Aso oke)
_Evostic gum
_Super glue
_Linen material
_1/2 inch foam
_Elastic band
_Cardboard or Marco leather (both are good)
The process
I measure the head circumference and then cut it out on both the cap material and the leather material
Note: do not forget to add an extra inch on both the cap material and leather.
I applied Gum on the one inch allowance left extra during cutting on the leather and leave it to sticky dry, then Gum both ends together
Pick the cap material on the other hand and sew down to get the head measurement
Then fix the leather into the cap
Apply Gum to all sides then adjust with my hands to fit head size
Join the remaining material left after cutting the head circumference, then cut out the cap circumference on the pieces that was joined and the 1/2 inch foam then Gum them together to become one like this
Apply Gum on the foam edges and the top edge of the cap and stick together the gum area
After that, cut round pieces of linen and glue it to the inner part of the cap to make ur cap neat.
Then glue your elastic band round the linen edge and cap edge to give it a firm and final neat look
And few hours before the event all of our caps were ready
I hope y'all like my caps 😁
Ps: we added this rops to beautify and differentiate our caps it was added when when sticking the foam edge and cap edge together
All pictures by me 🤩