Fashion Hat Consulting – Carole Denford

Carole Denford, previous co-founder of The Hat Magazine and Fashion Editor, has charted a new path as a consultant to the headwear industry.

Fashion Mission – NL

A fashion & style specific search engine and link database from the Netherlands, that helps you to find what you’re looking for in the field of fashion, style, beauty, lifestyle, travel and design.

Fashion Week Online

Membership required. Become a Fashion Week Online member for only $15 a year, to get advanced information about open-to-the-public events, discount tickets to fashion week, access to giveaways and prizes, model casting call notices, invitation to free members-only events.

Hat History – USA

History of Straw hats and Felt hats furnishes enlightening detail, beginning with interesting accounts of dress hats in the early years, through the roaring 20’s gangster fedoras, includes features on golf and movie celebrities’ hats, and highlights some original and contemporary hatmakers.

Hatatorium Emporium

A place to go to learn about vintage hats. The website gallery now contains over 3,100 pictures, organized in a searchable database. The gallery is growing constantly as more hat collectors join us in exhibiting their collections. The database interfaces with the Hatatorium eBook, creating a seamless, dynamic repository for vintage hat research.

Headwear Blog – DE

Blog about headwear, any aspect will be covered (German language).

how2hats – UK

Informative and useful e-books and instructional DVDs on almost every subject related to hatmaking, selling hats and so on. Also a newsletter and monthly e-magazine. This site also has a great Links section and lots of useful information.

Millinery Techniques – AU

Educational site on making hats with detailed listing of tools and instructions for particular hat styles.

Millinery Info – AU

Promotion of millinery through podcasts and online events. This is a site for hat lovers, by hat lovers, so feel free to suggest a link, share an article or ask to be listed.

Roxwell Waterhouse Fabric Branding Solutions

A blog/forum – a public online business resource and discussion forum that addressed the specific needs of apparel and other fabric production, business development, and marketing.

That Way Hat

That Way Hat can have most any hat you want made for you by the custom hat makers who work with us. Just send us details of what you are looking for & we will hook you up with makers of steampunk, church, fedoras, you name it. We are inviting more custom hat makers to join our website.

The Entertainment Sourcebook

Useful resource for any oe who makes anything. Used by professional shoppers in the entertainment business for trim sources, fabrics, plastics, rattan, sequins and lots of other stuff. It is paid listings so not all sources will show.

The Fedora Lounge – USA

A forum focusing on the 1930s and 1940s – men and women’s fashions and hats.

Vintage Pattern Lending Library

A source for reproduction vintage patterns from the 1860s through the 1950s.

Weddingbee Board

A wedding blog updated daily by 20+ real brides across the US and Canada. Lots of how-to and help postings for veils, fascinators and more.