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.

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 …

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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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