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Today was the annual horse race that stops the nation – I am not sure if there is anywhere in Australia where their workplace or school does not stop to watch the race…  To me its not only about the horses (although they are important) it is about the hats… I love to how amazing people look when they wear a hat… it is a pity they don’t choose to more often.

Early on cup day the commentators were saying that there were more hats than fascinators – although this makes sense – you need something to shade you from that strong burning Melbourne sun… fascinators may be beautiful and easy to wear but hats have that classic appeal and besides looking a bit more sophisticated they protect you from getting burnt.

Here are a few of the online photo galleries from the day so you can see how wonderful everyone looked in their headwear….

The Age newspapers - Melbourne Cup Fashion Photo Gallery

An article about the winner of the fashion the fields wearing a classic black flower fascinator.

The Herald Sun’s photo gallery sports some great hats and fascinators…

And a video C/O of The Age newspaper on early morning on Melbourne Cup Day..

And not quite Melbourne Cup day but a good photo gallery displaying hats and fascinators from Derby Day on the Age’s website….

ENJOY!

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I am attempting to pick out only the best articles on millinery in the news and on the web – looking for good photos or good articles. Here is the first of two posts on Millinery in the past month in the media.

• DIY City Magazine has an article on Tracy Thomson, a well known New Orleans milliner. She sells her handcrafted hats and accessories from her Kabuki Design Studio at the Dutch Alley Artists Co-op. Tracy’s background is in costume design. She makes a wide variety of hats from straw sun hats to funky cocktail hats and fun Mardi Gras hats too.

• FashionClub.com Daily: reports on the Hat of the Moment: The Fascinator. Sarah Jessica Parker made fashion news by wearing a fascinator to the premiere of the Sex & The City movie. A “fascinator” is a fancy headpiece usually adorned with feathers, flowers, or beads and attached to the head with a hair comb, clip, or headband.
• The denver polo classic had a few quite spectacular hats to show and there is a slideshow of the millinery.
• An article on getting your racewear ready for the cairns cup.
• Big Al customises cowboy hats and has done so for more than 40 years – there is both an article and a video in this story.
• This one is actually a blog article on bridal headwear and millinery in fashion at the moment – it is quite a good read.
• A hospice lunch with a hat parade I really like the opening quote in this article “A hat is the difference between looking adequate and looking your best.”
  - Author Martha Sliter
• Here is an article on Paris tips and trends, with a focus on wedding wear.
• Here is a web article on millinery hot blocks – it is more an advertisement for sale but it has so good information and some nice photos.

• An article on church hats with a millinery church hats photo gallery

• DEL MAR – Opening day at the Del Mar Racetrack featured a parade of elegant creatures bred to be winners. And then there were the horses, too. There is also a millinery picture gallery for the opening day.

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From 1 – 31 December there will be a Millinery exhibition at Port Philip Art Gallery, St. Kilda Melbourne. Works on sale in aid of the Blue Hat Project.

Courses:
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- July 19th and 20th Hervey Bay ,Qld
- September 1st to 8th Melbourne, Champion Race Museum
- October 18th and 19th Sydney at the Powerhouse museum

Torb and Reiner have also started offering some Millinery courses online via their website.

International Millinery Forum

January 2009
Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.

The list of tutors for the Forum include:

Eugenie Van Oirschot – The Netherlands
Jean Carroll OAM– Sydney
Peter Jago – Melbourne
Peggy Stone – Sydney
Liz Evans – Canberra
Phillip Rhodes – Melbourne
Carol Wilkes – Queensland
Jane Stoddart – Sydney
Neil Grigg – Sydney
Waltraud Reiner – Melbourne
Louise McDonald – Melbourne
Serena Lindeman – Melbourne
Maris Herr – Wagga Wagga
Georgina Conheady – Melbourne

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Set in the beautiful Halls Gap and Wartook Valley in the Grampians National Park of western Victoira. Two-day or four-day workshops available from tutors like India Flint, Wendy Lugg, Ruth Hadlow, Keith Lo Bue, Rose Kingsmill, Liz Evans, Jan Irvine-Nealie, Jude Skeers, Colleen Weste, Jane Siddall, Yvonne Twining, Mary French, Susan Mathews and Ilka White. Bookings and further information from grampianstextue@gmail.com Phone (03) 5356.4616.

Fascinator made it into the Oxford Dictionary, Other new entries for this year include “slebs” – meaning celebrities – and “fascinators”, to describe an item of ladies millinery.

The Kansas City Royals baseball team are giving out hats to their loyal fans.

On Friday, the first 20,000 fans will get a cowboy hat. Some of these will be worn again, but probably not a lot. How many people do you see wearing cowboy hats around here? I suppose some of the Royals’ version will pop up on the golf course as sun hats.

On Saturday, the first 20,000 people get Santa Claus hats, which should be comfy on a hot night in July. Some may be stowed away and brought out at Christmas for years to come. More likely, they will end up at the bottom of closets or in garage sales.

Sunday is golf visor day. Again, the first 20,000 get the gift.

Hint Fashion Magazine have an Interview with Milliner Stephen Jones If you’ve watched a Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior, John Galliano or Comme des Garçons show in recent years, you’ve no doubt seen Stephen Jones’ creations bobbing down the runway. And to see even one of the English milliner’s fanciful creations is to see nothing less than a work of art—and art at work. For 25 years, Jones has been handcrafting truly avant-garde hats that run the gamut from eccentric tea-party fare to outré Schiaparelli-like surrealism.

The Mediterranean Trotting Cup held at the Zagreb Race Track was up there next to the Kentucky Derby and Royal Ascot when it comes to crazy hats. The photo gallery can be seen here

A ‘Hats from yesteryear exhibit’ is currently on at Tulare Historical Museum on until 31 August 2008. San Joaquin Valley in California.

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• Fashions at Dior show pay homage to Vogue – Arizona Daily Star

Another article about the Dior Fashion show. Milliner Stephen Jones, a longtime collaborator, said hats were inspired by illustrator Eduardo Garcia Benito, famous for his 1920s Vogue covers of women in …

• Golf caps present a new twist on old style fashions – Fibre2fashion.com

This article is about the changing in types of golf hats worn. …genre of hats has hit a new high for head fashions. It used to be that a visor, or more traditional hat was the only style seen outside of the old …