normafreda@gmail.com

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, May 20, 2013

Gatsby Garments: What They Wore to Roar

If you haven't booked us for our travelling exhibit of 1920's fashions, now is the time. The Mobile Millinery Museum's feature exhibit for 2013/2014 is Gatsby Garments: What They Wore to Roar, a one-hour presentation of authentic flapper fashions representing the flash and dazzle of the jazz age.

· Fringed and beaded dance dresses

· Embroidered silk piano shawls and kimonos

Opera cloaks, furs, & feather boas

· Fans, fascinators and other fancies

We can’t be everywhere, so call or email now to book this one-hour interactive presentation for the same great price as our trademark Retrospective Millinery Fashion Shows.

905.220.2762

normafreda@gmail.com
normafreda@cogeco.ca