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Millinery Movie Moments: Dark Victory
Today's movie is Dark Victory (1939). It centres around Judith Traherne (Bette Davis), her battle with a brain tumour, and her romance with her doctor (George Brent).A headstrong and stubborn woman,...
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Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Little Miss Bamboo
I don't know if I'm just very impressionable, but I liked the first name suggestion I received: Adelaide. Plus it's a very Australian name, although not my part of it. Thanks to Bonita for that...
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Bring Back The Whimsy!
Today I'm launching one of my big projects for 2015, and I'm pretty excited about it. I hope you will be too, and will maybe join me.While researching vintage hats, and the 1960s in particular, I...
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A Guide to Buying Vintage Whimsies
Today as part of the #bringbackthewhimsy campaign, I'll be giving you some tips for buying a genuine vintage whimsy. We'll look at what sort of hats count as whimsies, where to get them, search terms...
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Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Miss Beta
Our travelling hat, Adelaide, has been visiting Miss Beta in Portugal!She has now been to as many countries as I have! Oh dear.I have been lucky to get to know many many lovely people in the vintage...
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A Guide to Making a Vintage-Style Whimsy
It's Whimsy-making time!I've decided to call this a guide rather than a tutorial, because although I will be showing you how to make one simple whimsy, I'm trying to provide number of variations and...
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Vintage Magazine Snippets
In one of my vintage shopping hauls last year, I picked up a number of old magazines, mostly British Women's Weeklies. I wanted to show you some of my favourite articles, advertisements and...
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"Choc Chip" Baking-Themed Whimsy
It's time for the March whimsy in the Tanith Rowan Designs Whimsy Collection!This month's novelty theme is baking! I love to bake, especially cookies. Chocolate chip, as well as being a classic, are...
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The Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Linn Sunniva
Adelaide has now travelled to Norway to visit Linn Sunniva and been the co-star of another stunning photo shoot. I love the way Linn just looks so serene and naturally beautiful, and the way the line...
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1940s Story "The Pixie Hat"
Remember those lovely pixie hats that Bette Davis was wearing in Dark Victory? In the midst of my 1940s hat research (posts coming soon!), I stumbled on a short story entitled "The Pixie Hat" so I had...
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1940s Millinery Trends - The Pixie Hat
The "Hats of the Past" series now continues and journeys back into the 1940s. Since I've developed a taste recently for pixie hats, why not start there!The term "pixie hat" first appears (that I can...
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Words from Gallipoli
It is almost 100 years since the Gallipoli landing. Many Australians are taking an interest in the history of the First World War, even if they haven't done so before, and I am one of them. The...
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"Autumn Leaves" Whimsy at the Hydro Majestic
For the April design in my Bring Back the Whimsy collection, I'm taking my inspiration from the seasonal changes around me this month.Deciduous trees are in the minority in most Australian landscapes,...
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Miniature hats, mountain views, and a hint of steampunk
This week I got to spend a wonderful day with my friend Lucy, launching her millinery modelling career and having a long overdue catch-up.A lot of my previous photoshoots have remained close to home,...
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How to Wear a Boater (Sailor) Hat
Today I'm bringing you the first of new type of post, which I hope to do more of in the future. I'm focusing on a particular hat style again, but this time, on inspiration for styling outfits that suit...
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The Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Kate-Em
Adelaide, the travelling hat, is visiting in the United Kingdom again, and has recently been with Kate-Em, of the blog What Kate-Em did next.Kate-Em took these lovely photos on a weekend away in...
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"Leopard Print is a Neutral" Whimsy
I'll tell you a little secret. (It's not really a secret.) You can tell when I have finished a project at the last minute, because I'll be modelling it myself. That is definitely my last-resort backup...
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The Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Biddy Stanford
Adelaide has been doing a lot of visiting in the UK. She clearly had a lot of fun with Biddy Stanford (and vice versa!).I met Biddy on instagram, and she was super-keen to be a part of the travelling...
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A Pink Straw Boater Hat and Vintage Cherries
One of the reasons I started my "How to Wear..." series with boater hats (along with finding such great inspiring images to use), was that I was working on completing my own boater hat.I started this...
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Changes and Renewals
I've been working on some new projects and some changes lately. The first is that I am starting an email newsletter!Now, I've been hearing for years that I need to have an email newsletter, and I've...
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