millinery

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Curators have brought together nearly 200 outfits seen together for the first time, charting Chanel’s long career from the opening of her millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to her final collection in 1971.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Poet Maya Angelou wore one of Mrs. Beane’s millinery creations.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

Here is a selection of some of this year's head-turning millinery.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2022

“Showstoppers!” displays 100-odd costumes, as well as a handful of the tools used to make them, like millinery blocks and a 19th-century crewel machine from the embroiderers Penn & Fletcher.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

Staring out to sea, tobacco farmers imagined themselves as race car drivers, silk dyers as Wall Street tycoons, millinery girls as fan dancers in the Ziegftid Follies.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides