Finally finished my hat for the Stephen Jones’s competition! Hope you guys like it and more importantly I hope the judges do!! My apartment looked like a pig sty, so before I took any photos I cleared up a bit…raphia and feathers everywhere! Now, I’ve got to get busy on a cycling cap… J’ai enfin [...]

If you’re into hats, you may be aware that recently the great Stephen Jones launched an international millinery competition!! Oh joy and excitement!! The first prize is just amazing!!! The winning hat will be exposed at Stephen Jones’  ”Hat’s : an Anthology” exhibition in New York for the whole six months it’s on (I saw [...]

One of my very kind twitter followers recently sent me a message, wondering if  I would be interested in a hat book she found in her stuff, and obviously I was! The original book is called “How to Make and Trim Your Own Hats” by Vee Powell, published in the USA in 1944. I did [...]

Ok, so there was another royal wedding (Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlène) this weekend and, as a hat person, I have to blog about it. Even though, well, I really can’t give a damn about the actual wedding. There were less headwear around than compared to William/Kate’s wedding, and most of them were more [...]