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What Does a Milliner Do

What Does a Milliner Do

What Does a Milliner Do
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What Does a Milliner Do

A milliner designs and makes hats and headpieces by hand. The word covers a trade rather than a job title, and the work is closer to sculpture than to dressmaking. Cloth is cut flat and sewn. A hat...

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The milliner finishing a black felt hat by hand in the London atelier, pins still in the brim
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How a couture hat is made by hand

An inside look at the London atelier, from blocking and wiring to hand sewing and trimming, and why every stage is worked by hand.

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How to choose a hat for your face shape and your height | Maria Monica London
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How to choose a hat for your face shape and your height

A milliner's guide to reading your face shape and your height, then matching brim, crown and proportion so a hat looks made for you.

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