mummiez & daddiez magazine May - June Issue 2013
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Off With<br />
Her Head<br />
Off With Her Head Millinery, began back in 2008 and is a business born<br />
out of a genuine love for hats. I have over 50 hats in my personal<br />
collection ranging from vintage to homemade and in so many different<br />
styles. I can still remember the first hat I bought for myself as a teenager<br />
in the 1990’s. It was a floppy black velvet hat with two fabric roses<br />
pinned on the front, one white, one pale blue, and it was very fashionable<br />
at the time! I wore that hat everywhere, even to school! I’ve always had a<br />
love for vintage fashion and have inherited a talent for home crafts from<br />
my Mum and my Gran. So it came as no surprise to those who knew me<br />
when I created my own Victorian Style Riding Hat to wear at the Whitby<br />
Gothic Weekend. The finished hat was much admired and led to a flurry<br />
of enquires from friends and people I had met at Whitby. This was to be<br />
the start of Off With Her Head Millinery. In <strong>May</strong> of 2008 I teamed up<br />
with a fantastic photographer for a trip to Brighton with some models and<br />
Photos by Ange Harper
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