Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion
postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey
through that era - covering the hat fashions and social changes of the
day. Delve further into the carnage that took place around the world, in
which unscrupulous and money grabbing individuals from the Northumbrian
coast in England to the Everglades in America, would callously slaughter
whole colonies of birds (leaving their young to die) purely to provide
the millinery trade with ornate feathers to decorate fashionable hats
during that era.
The book also takes the reader into the world of millinery sweatshops of
poverty stricken New York and describes the conditions and deprivations
under which the poorly paid workers, many of them immigrants, worked.
You can even learn about the background, history and amazing life of one
of the world's greatest fashion designers, Coco Chanel, as she set out
on her lifetime of fashion in Edwardian Paris.
With superb fashion colou plates of the day, together with images of
amazingly creative and colorful hat pins from both the UK and America,
the author shares the fruits of his 40 years of postcard collecting and
the highs and lows of his search for the 'Hats' postcards, as worn by
his Edwardian 'girlfriends' from over 100 year ago.
