Mobile Millinery Museum & Costume Archive

Vintage purses are hot right now. In going through my personal stash I found some 1920s rhinestone-studded evening bags, some Victorian, embroidered silk reticules, a boxy leather handbag or two with colourful bakelite handles from the 1930s, some Whiting & Davis, shoulder strap chain metal beauties from the 80s, and a whole lot more, too numerous to catalogue here. I even found a woven straw cutie like the one that Sophia carries around in almost every episo...

What’s this fuss about Princess Beatrice’s hat? Renowned millinery designer Philip Treacy has done the near impossible; created an exciting millinery innovation not seen in centuries of hat design.

For royal wedding watchers, Victoria Beckham’s front-and-centre pillbox was the first of these shocking chapeaux to appear. Gasps were heard at the viewing party over which I presided, when cameras captured Beck’s image. Many in attendance expressed their disapproval....

Tulle Turban

Summer Straw

Cobalt

A ladies wide-brimmed panama is banded in cobalt blue rayon crepe.

View from the Back

Blue on blue blossoms with powdery white stamens crown a fabric-banded toque.

Margo's

This pink and white bubble toque with its original hatbox screams ‘summer in the sixties’.

Fedorable

A feminized fedora crafted of white nylon straw is banded in blue and decorated with plastic-stemmed flowers.  

Summer Breeze

White synthetic straw, sewn in such a way as to create an eyelet pattern. A pretty ribbon band is formed by drawing the grosgrain through a double row of holes.

Soft and Satiny

Diamond dot veiling and a swirl of blond mink.