Right now there isn’t any clear story just how cocktail hats eventually became referred to as “fascinators”. However the exceptional headwear has its own roots in 18th century trend when British women with Dutch hairdos used pompoms (made of jewels, ribbons, small feathers, etc.), which has been then secured to the side or front with their head. Marie Antoinette and also other French women of mutually luxurious style used essentially the most flamboyant and engaging headpieces (jewelled pins, garden and fruit pieces, or hair-covered cushions filled up with horse hair) at that time. Revolutions and recessions may have kept the eye-catching headwear out from the picture for some time while however nowadays it returns which has a vengeance.
