[Tfug] Way, way ot: "Millenery"

[Bexley Hall]

--- Ken Steen <ken at greenideas.net> wrote:

> Pima Community has had a hat making course in the
> past.  It was a personal interest course.

Excellent!  I've never seen anything like that in
those "booklets" that they periodically publish.
I'll have to poke around their web site...

> There is also a custom hat maker in Bisbee.
> 
> http://www.optimohatworks.com/

Just the time/expense of traveling to Bisbee would
make it far more expensive than it is worth.
Besides, you don't learn anything by *buying*
something pre-made... :>

Thanks!
--don 
> Ken
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 19:54 -0700, Bexley Hall
> wrote:
> > --- Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 25 Mar 2008 at 15:05, Bexley Hall  wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Or, whatever the *male* version thereof would
> be??
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone have any experience with this sort of
> > > thing?
> > > 
> > > Well, a "milliner" makes and sells hats (gender
> not
> > 
> > Actually, I was under the impression that
> millenery
> > pertained to the making of *women's* hats
> > (specifically).  Hence, my qualification re:
> > "the *male* version thereof".
> > 
> > > specified).  A vendor of 
> > > clothing for men is called a haberdasher, so
> perhaps
> > > you're looking for a 
> > > haberdashery?
> > 
> > No, I am not looking for a *vendor* but, rather,
> > "a *maker* of hats for men".  More specifically,
> > someone who has the skillset that they would be
> > willing to share.
> > 
> > In the plainest of terms, I want to make a hat! 
> :>
> > And, aside from the newspaper hats that Curious
> > George taught me to make -- or those that printers
> > often make/wear -- I am clueless as to where to
> > begin!  (hence the appeal)
> > 
> >  
> > > And to answer the second question, no, I don't
> sell
> > > clothes or hats ...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >      
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