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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.


Saturday, June 9, 2012

In King City to Celebrate the Queen

The Jubilee tea and hat show was a success. Met lots of wonderful people, many of whom arrived in hats.  We showed our standard selection of pieces from the Victorian era to the present day with a few 'special' 1960's pieces thrown in. These closely resembled hats worn by Her Majesty herself on official visits to Canada during that decade.
We were also gifted with some fine donations - hats by a former Toronto milliner who marketed her pieces under the name Jo-Anne. Now the unpacking and repacking begins as we prepare for another exhibit of Titanic-era fashions.  
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