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Millinery Department at the Lion Store of Toledo, Ohio, 1900s The Millinery Shop by Edgar Degas. Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear. [1] A person engaged in this trade is called a milliner or hatter. Historically, milliners made and sold a range of accessories for clothing and hairstyles. [2]
The traditional definition of a milliner differs from the definition used now which exclusively means hatmaker.The Oxford English Dictionary defines an eighteenth-century milliner as "a haberdasher of small wares; seller of fancy wares, accessories and apparel, either originally (deriving from) those wares coming from Milan or from selling a thousand things."
Millinery was traditionally a woman's occupation, with the milliner not only creating hats and bonnets but also choosing lace, trimmings and accessories to complete an outfit. [15] Left-to-right: Top-hat, peaked cap, Borsalino, bowler hat (Sweden, early 20th century).
By 1886, Stetson's hat company was the largest globally and had mechanized the hat-making industry ("producing close to 2 million hats a year by 1906"). [2] The Stetson Hat Co. ceased production in 1968 and licensed another hat company. [2] However, these hats still bear the Stetson name, with the hats produced in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was an American conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's ...
Levine Hat Company is a privately owned, family-operated hat store in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The business was founded by Benjamin Levine in 1903. [ 1 ] Levine Hat Company has had 3 different locations, all in the Washington Avenue Historic District , sometimes referred to as the garment district.
George Clooney's 7-year-old son, Alexander, loves Batman so much, the actor may just try to prevent him from seeing his infamous 1997 superhero flick "Batman & Robin." “My son’s favorite hero ...
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