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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]
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).
For company apprenticeships, parents paid a premium to the master or mistress. Apprenticeships started when children were in their teens and lasted seven years. [12] The premiums paid for a millinery apprenticeship were relatively high - approximately the same amount as might be required to apprentice a boy to a merchant or apothecary. [13]
Reboux made a name for herself in millinery in Europe and the United States and was nicknamed "Queen of the Milliners." [9] [10] [11] The international Red Hat Society says Reboux, being the first important name in millinery, is also closely associated with haute couture, as her hat designs ranked at the same level as that custom fashion. [12]
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.
In the world of millinery, designing a tiara for a future Queen is a life-defining moment. That was the task at hand for Jess Collett, the British hatmaker who was chosen to create one-of-a-kind ...
A fascinator is a formal headpiece, a style of millinery. Since the 1990s, the term has referred to a type of formal headwear worn as an alternative to the hat; it is usually a large decorative design attached to a band or clip. In contrast to a hat, its function is purely ornamental: it covers very little of the head and offers little or no ...
Unless this were done, he told the convention of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers at New York, "the 7,500,000 members of the A. F. L. will be rebels," and the A. F. L. will use its political strength "to elect men who will repeal this abhorrent legislation."