millinery
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Stephen Jones, famed for his millinery, contributed with reinterpretations of new wave beanies that bore “ronghua,” exquisite velvet flowers of Chinese origin dating back to the Tang dynasty.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
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
The Kentucky Derby is as much about $1,000 mint juleps and flamboyant millinery as a hoof-pounding competition that lasts barely two minutes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020
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
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