Last week, Princess Hisako of Takamado visited a chrysanthemum exhibition at Daikakuji Temple in Kyoto. For this visit, she wore a petite black wool boater hat trimmed in a band and bow of the same metallic fabric as her suit. This fabric looks like it time traveled straight from the 1980s but as it brought both colour and sparkle to this ensemble (something we seldom see on the Imperial royal ladies), I’m going hold my reservations silent. The boater shape of this hat is quite smart on Princess Hisako, isn’t it?

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: I believe this is a new hat

Photos from Sankei and Ikebana Saga Goryu

Princess Hisako of Takamado officialy opened the JAPANTEX 2014 Interior Trend Show in Tokyo yesterday in a pink suit and matching hat. While I was not able to find a great view of the hat, which appeared to have a flat crown and a short trilby-style brim, it looked quite smart on Princess Hisako from afar.

Photo from IB News

Princess Hisako of Takamado visited Oita yesterday to attend the 26th National Conference on aerial environment. For this conference (marvelously named “Towns under the Starry Sky, Towns under the Blue Sky”), Princess Hisako debuted a new olive green bumper hat. While the trim on this hat – an olive and dusty rose striped sash around the crown and a dusty rose bloom on the side – had a rather old fashioned, Victorian feel, it provided much needed focus and a point of brightness to Hisako’s monochrome ensemble. I think this vintage-feeling hat is quirky but rather sweet – what words come to your mind to describe this hat?

Photo from Asahi Shimbun

Yesterday, Princess Hisako of Takamado attended a memorial for the Kanto Great Earthquake which occurred September 1, 1923 and caused the deaths of over one hundred thousand people. To commemorate this tragedy, Princess Hisako wore a black veiled bumper hat.

Photo from The Imperial Family of Japan