This paper explores the way that plastic can be considered a muse for future feminist innovation and rebellion. I reference my own archive of hats and accessories as well as including influences in fashion design and art. I think plastic is inspiring as a material because of the infinite possibilities of form that can be created and repositioned, mass-produced as art project or wearable. Plastic is a vehicle for both the creation of the mundane and the extraordinary, to quote Barthes, ‘this is because the quick change artistry of plastic is absolute: it can become buckets as well as jewels.’ It is a material of artifice, of synthetic chemistry, plastics are suffused with meanings of modernity and urbanity, of manufacture and industry and is an anti-naturalist aesthetic.