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Welcome to the new web home of JJ's. The Vintage Hat Lady

Contact email: TheVintageHatLady@talktalk.net ~ phone: 01773 520538 ~ mobile : 07939 536202

Anabel is a professional demonstrator, interpreter and entertainer supplying and serving the heritage and educational industries.

With over 400 wonderful vintage hats from the late 1800's to the early 1950's the Vintage Hat Lady offers a unique thoroughly researched and developed exhibition.

As the statement says "..the first part of an outfit to be noticed and the last to be forgotten..." the women who commissioned and inspired these hats, created a fashion that reflected the social changes and their battle for emancipation.... their hats will not let them be forgotten!

That lasting image, 'the hat not to be forgotten' has become the medium to bring to you a delightful way of experiencing history from Victoria's reign to the early 1950's.

The Vintage Hat Lady offers to the Educational Industry a range of thoroughly researched and well informed presentations portraying historical periods supporting the schools curriculum. While the emphasis is from the perspective of the women of those eras and the impact upon them and their role in changing history, it will provide a professional well informed service portraying the given historical period as accurately as possible.

As these ladies hats are authentic fashion articles portraying the artistic skills and creativity of generations of innovative artisans, they are a perfect medium for supporting Arts departments and providing an unusual tactile medium for aspiring students of Fashion and Art.

The Vintage Hat Lady provides the Events and Heritage Industry with a well developed professional service and standard of presentations, that invite the public to enjoyably interact and appreciate not just the power of these vintage hats in transforming the lady wearer but to understand the social history that they represent.

With 2 years experience in the field developing exhibitions to meet the needs of both the organisers and the public The Vintage Hat Lady can be relied upon to fulfil commissions with absolute integrity and to have the required public liability insurance in place.

The Vintage Hat Lady takes a selection of her vintage hats and vanity dresser mirror out Public Speaking presenting a range of informative entertaining talks for the WI, private functions and groups requiring a guest speaker.

The Vintage Hat Lady provides a store of authentic period ladies hats for all occasions to the Entertainment Industry for film, television and theatrical productions.

The Vintage Hat Lady Welcomes You.....

Your hat is the first part of an outfit to be noticed and the last to be forgotten...