Ideas appreciated, Help for a Harvest Moon Cosplay Options

[Rumiko]

Hello Hello~

as some might already now, I'm a cosplayer.

Right now I'm working on a Harvest Moon Wind Bazaar Cosplay. And I really really need some help.

About the hats. and the feathers.

I'm not sure what kind of hat they are wearing exactly. is is a cowboy hat? Another kind of hat? Does anybody know where I could something in the shape like that? Or in a shape that I could change.....important: it should be cheap!

What else....About the feather?
Should I use two real ones and stick them together to get the colering? are there feathers like this? oooor should I use cellular rubber and glue feathers on it to get texture?

a picture is following~
Please post your ideas >_> thanks in advance!

(IMG:http://www.genkigirl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hmwb-heroinehero.jpg)


before I forget it...I make the male character....but I also help my friend, who is going to make female character.

[Mizukithepanda]

For those hats, you'll probably need to make it yourself. I'd recommend using high-quality felt (or wool) and just getting feathers from a craft store. (They should sell "natural" feathers. There is a variety of bird feathers that are mostly white with a darker tip.)

If you need something more concrete to base it off of, I'd suggest looking up patterns for a short-brimmed hat (for the boy) and a cuffed hat (for the girl). Maybe I'm just underestimating things, but the hats themselves don't look particularly complex, so you can probably get away with using some very basic hat patterns and just modifying things a bit.

Also, you can try looking up varieties of brimmed hats and cuffed hats and see if you can find something that resembles them and then modify them, but that could be expensive. :/

Like... for the girl's I'd probably use something like this:
(IMG:http://www.wehats.com/images/dbl%20cuff%20eco%20pill.jpg)
Found HERE

And for the boy's maybe something like a boonie:
(IMG:http://www.lkmilitary.com/vsf007.JPG)