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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.


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Unsinkable Fashion


Because we're touring this year with a travelling exhibit of Titanic-era Fashions, entitled Unsinkable Fashion, Costume from the Titanic Era, some people have asked me whether we are still presenting our trademark Retrospective Millinery Fashion Shows, Shoe & Tell presentations and our other vintage fashion shows. The answer is yes!

Unsinkable Fashion is our feature presentation for 2012, a themed exhibit of Edwardian treasures in keeping with this year's centennial observance of the sinking of the Titanic.

The workmanship and detail of the walking suits, tea dresses, and gowns we are touring with, are exquisite. Pictured here is one of my favourites, a mint chiffon gown with glass beads, a lace overlay, Fortuny pleats, and a contrast velvet belt.

Mobile Millinery Museum & Costume Archive 

Unsinkable Fashion is a rare opportunity to view authentic Titanic-era fashions up close and personal. Contact us to book a one-hour presentation for your fundraiser, tea or educational event.

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