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millinery

[mil-uh-ner-ee, -nuh-ree] / ˈmɪl əˌnɛr i, -nə ri /


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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

A 2003 book of photographs, “Paris + Klein,” portrayed the city of fashion and fine dining as a freak show of boulevard cafes where ladies in millinery ate with plastic forks on paper plates.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

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

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2022

It was a nice bit of millinery, but more than that, it was historic because it was worn as part of her wardrobe for the administration’s first state dinner.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2022

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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