Peacock Feather Retro Cocktail Hat
One of my favorite hats to design and make are cocktail hats that were very popular in the 1950′s. These little hats perched on top of the head with trims of various romantic bows or feathers. I believe women loved them because they did not drown a woman’s face and flattered any shape of face. [...]
Pan Am Hat’s by Customers
It is nice to watch my millinery pattern/tutorial customers got to work and make their own color versions of my Pan Am inspired hat pattern. These are photos that one of them sent to me. This outfit was made my Helene Lynn Nash for her daughter. Here you can see she used two much lighter [...]
The boring part of millinery
Making fascinator frames! It all starts with a good weight of buckram and millinery wire. Being a milliner isn’t all design and roses. You have to be very self motivated and self contained to work alone. Even the largest millinery shop has few employees because the work is slow and mainly done by hand. The [...]
Ostrich Feather Fascinator
When I designed this piece I had both bride, mother of the bride, and wedding guest in mind. This piece perhaps would suit a bride who wants something simple without a full veil and may like the touch of French veil that I added. Or maybe a mother of the bride or a wedding guest [...]
Red Black Fascinator & Necklace
Once again I decided to design a really unusual fascinator and this one has a matching necklace. What I really love to design are glamorous pieces and this set is exactly what I mean. I really believe women of all ages should be able to feel wonderful while wearing something on their heads. This set [...]
White Sinamay Rose Fascinator
One of the things I love to do is hand make roses. So this fascinator has a very large rose as the centerpiece feature. This is the finished fascinator which is mounted on a covered white hair band. I wanted to make something for the bride who wants to wear a simple headpiece for a [...]
