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12 unusual facts about hatmaking


Bridget Cleary

She obtained a Singer sewing machine, state of the art at the time, and was variously described as a dressmaker and a milliner.

Caleys

Caleys held two royal warrants, at the time of the closure, as 'supplier of household and fancy goods' to Her Majesty The Queen and as 'supplier of household and fancy goods and millinery' to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Hatmaking

David Shilling is a renowned milliner, artist and designer based in Monaco.

Jean Broke-Smith

Prior to that she trained as fashion designer, milliner and make-up specialist, and herself was a model.

Kitty Fisher

she was originally a milliner, whom Lieutenant-General (then Ensign) Anthony George Martin (d. 1800) reportedly introduced to London high life.

Madame Agnès

Madame Agnès was a French milliner who designed hats that were popular from the late 1920s until the 1940s.

Markham Museum

By October 1862, he and Clementina were operating a successful millinery and fancy goods store in the Village.

Mary Quant

After gaining a Diploma in Art Education from Goldsmiths, Quant began an apprenticeship at Erik, a high-end Mayfair milliner on Brook Street next door to the Claridge's hotel.

Nickey Line

The thriving hat making industry in Luton created demand for a transport link with the straw plait trade that existed in Hemel and, as a result, the initial connection with the MR at Harpenden headed north towards Luton rather than south towards London.

Sport in Bedfordshire

Their nickname, "The Hatters", dates back to when Luton had a substantial millinery industry.

The Bon-Ton

The Bon-Ton was started in 1898, when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel, opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room millinery and dry goods store on Market Street in York, Pennsylvania.

Wild, Wild Women

Barbara Windsor, who also starred in The Rag Trade, played Millie, a cockney woman who led the women in a milliner's shop.


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The music video for "Love You to Life" was directed by Chris Levine and Why Not Associates, and drew inspiration from an Irish milliner Philip Treacy and "real life magic".