Sometimes hat bodies are balky! This time I worked with a never used vintage hat body from the 1960s in nightblue. But in the dry spell it began to show, that the hat body didn´t go on with the cloche hat block. I had to strain several times, laid weights on , damped and ironed under a cloth more than once and in the end, there where still some nasty folds on the back-brim, I couldn´t remove, no matter what I did.
I had this strange phenomena often seen on vintage, never used felt hat bodies.
Anyway, I made some pretty felt-feathers from the scraps and embellished the cloche with an antique bead-embroidery from Austria. I think, thats a good compensation!