Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I have decided to start a regular blog post with news on hat in the media. This is a good source to see what people are wearing, where and when. With the Royal Ascot in progress this week it was sure a week for hats in the media. There [...]
Feather Print from Fairie-ality, originally uploaded by geishaboy500. Until I went to Dita Feathers in Sydney I didn’t realise that there were so many different types of Ostrich feathers. The male feathers are bigger than the females, the mating feathers even bigger – In fact they were huge. Then of course there are left and [...]
Image by Vermin Inc via Flickr Living in Canberra there are not many options for buying millinery supplies, sure you can buy fabric from spotlight or lincraft and some proper millinery lining from addicted to fabric, but sinamay and felt or straw capelines or hoods, even proper grosgrain ribbon is hard to find. Unless I [...]
Yesterday I made my first visit to Dita Feather. Set in an old terrace house-shop just of Oxford Street. I was taken up the narrow stairs to select the feathers I wanted – available in all shapes and sizes (that birds grow) and in an array of colours to suit the current fashion and other [...]