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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.


Monday, June 4, 2012

A Tip of the Hat to Fulford Place

Late Edwardian Fashion Plate

The opportunity to meet the Brockville public at the Fulford Place Doors Open event last weekend was just one of the many pleasures associated with executing my Mode in Millinery 1899-1946 installation at the historic mansion.  

Hats off to Pam Brooks and the staff and volunteers there for making it such a pleasant experience. Certainly, the hats selected for the exhibit have found a safe and happy temporary home for the next year within the seven glass cases which have taken up residence in Dorothy's bedroom. A selection of classic gentlemen's toppers look on from the corner.  

I'm looking forward to returning to the scene for our Retrospective Millinery Fashion Show on the 24th.      
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