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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, September 6, 2013

Hats Off to a New Millinery Season

With stops in Montreal, Old Orchard, Bar Harbour, Halifax, Lunenburg, and Charlottetown this summer, we've shopped the best vintage and are excited to add some great new/old millinery treasures to our hat shows, including a number of pieces custom made for the 1950's television series, La Famille Plouffe. We even managed to snag a turn-of-the-century Salvation Army bonnet. Can you hear the Christmas bells ring?  

We've also been on the lookout for avante garde contemporary pieces like this show-stopper by Maria Curcic. This promises to be a very exciting year for hats.
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