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Yes, you have found the Hat Lady!

Norma Shephard is the founder and director of the Mobile Millinery Museum, a unique travelling museum whose “working hats” have raised funds for diverse causes; from homeless teens in rural Ontario, to cancer research and diagnostic equipment, to a women’s and children’s shelter in Israel.

Shephard’s use of hats, shoes, and vintage garments as cultural story blocks to prompt the telling of tales, myths, and legends transforms audience members into folklore informants, eager to share their own reminiscences.

Recognized as an historian and authority on vintage costume, Shephard has appeared on Canada A.M., CBC Morning, CBC Fresh Air, CBC Ontario Today, CH Morning Live, Breakfast Television, Canadian Living Television, This Morning Live, Main Street, CKCO, The Source, and Neighbour to Neighbour and has been featured in numerous print media.

In 1985 she earned a Canadian Achiever’s Award for entrepreneurship and since founding her museum in 1999, has penned and photographed Accessorizing the Bride; Vintage Wedding Finery Through the Decades), 1000 Hats, In Step With Fashion: 200 Years of Shoe Styles, Lingerie; Two Centuries of Luscious Design, T-shirts; A HIStory & HERitage of Pop Culture, and Dear Harry; The Firsthand Account of a World War I Infantryman.


Friday, May 18, 2012

Have hats, will travel

It's been a busy month so far with travelling exhibits of hats, Titanic-era costume, a Shoe & Tell presentation, and my long-awaited 'Mode in Millinery: 1899-1946' installation at Brockville's beautiful Fulford Place Museum, but the hats and bonnets are in place now and I look forward to meeting the public at next week's Doors Open event. (The staff and volunteers at the historic site are a real treat by the way.)

Then on to another round of exhibits, more hat shows, a presentation of 19th and 20th century wedding fashion, and one more Titanic commemoration with my Unsinkable Fashion exhibit. Then I'll be back to Fulford for a ticketed tea and Retrospective Millinery Fashion Show. 

We still have open dates throughout the spring and summer, but we can't be everywhere, so if you're thinking of booking us for a tea or fundraiser it is best to act soon.      
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