Hats and millinery prowess in the media this week.

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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 were also [...]

Book Review: 1,000 Hats, by Norma Shephard

If you are looking for hat making or millinery inspiration this book is for you. When I ordered it from Amazon I must admit I didn’t expect it to be quite so good. It is sort of a visual history of hats and millinery. The pictures in this book are extremely well taken; this makes [...]

My favorite website for Millinery information…

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I just thought I would put up a quick post to share with you my favorite website for Millinery information. This is a vintage sewing: http://vintagesewing.info
This site contains a number of different vintage millinery books. The books have been copied and indexed onto the site. These books are from the 1920’s, 30’s and [...]

Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece

I found this hat on Etsy and just thought I would share the inspiration. It is designed for Etsy Milliner, Boring Sidney. The Etsy site can be found here: BoringSidney :: Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece
What great recycling!

Hat tutorials online

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I have been researching better ways to put together tutorials on making hats… The ones that I like the best are on the Instructables website… Here are two I found on hats.
A girl pirate hat - I think this is quite a good design and the way the instructions are set out it [...]