All about Hat Making

This week has been quite a busy week for hats in the news. With the last of the coverage from Royal Ascot to a story on recycled plastic bag hats. There was a free hat give away in Lancaster county and a few stories on the millinery and milliners behind the hats at Royal Ascot and a ‘scandal’ involving betting on whether the Queen would wear a facinator to the races. Enjoy and please feel free to provide any feedback.

• As children you’re told not to put bags on your head, but Inglewood’s Reta Batten has a different message – cover up with a bread bag and help a worthy cause. Mrs Batten (91) makes and sells sunhats from used bread bags and donates the proceeds to the Cancer Society
• Summer officially begins at 7:59 p.m. Friday and a hat company in Lancaster County wants to protect people from the hot summer sun.The Bollman Hat Company gave out free hats Friday morning at Lancaster’s Binns Park.
• The Evenings post coverage of Royal Ascot, at the Reading train station and at the races.
• The Queen was caught up in a strange betting scandal on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot. Bookmakers suspended bets before her arrival at the racecourse on the type of hat she would be wearing.
• Marie Claire’s coverage of Royal Asco
• Liz Felix has been a milliner for over fifteen years. Initially, making hats just for her daughter, she now runs her own millinery business. Complete with a host of clients ranging from the average housewife to the rich and famous
• An amazing gallery of hat and millinery photos from Royal Ascot.
• Royal Ascot photos through the ages… A good glimpse of the a little history of hats at Royal Ascot.
• Facinators at the races
• Hat’s off to a lady who really knows how to use her head
• HATS, hats and more hats are what initially strike the first-time visitor to Lady Caroline Renwick’s shop.
• New York Magazine’s take on Royal Ascot with some great photos.
• Belfast student Blaise Harvey (21) tells Jane Bell how she’s worked with top milliner Philip Treacy’s team and helped with a Princess Beatrice hat for Royal Ascot.
• New York Times Slideshow on Royal Ascot Hats.

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