hat-maker

Born in Putney, south London, and apprenticed to hat-maker Phillip Treacy before he opened his own business in Whitechapel, Kirkwood is a star product of the creative energy flowing out of east London's fashion community.

Nicholas Kirkwood, British shoe designer, steps up to top role at Pollini Tom Kington 2010

The French hat-maker taught Fanny how to dress, the story goes, and gave her a smattering of French as well as Italian; her growing sense of style as well as her ability with languages were to serve her well as time went on.

Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

The French hat-maker taught Fanny how to dress, the story goes, and gave her a smattering of French as well as Italian; her growing sense of style as well as her ability with languages were to serve her well as time went on.

Guest Post on Fanny Abington by Jo Manning Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

His hat, though worn rather jauntily, revealed, more than any of the above symptoms, the poverty of a man who was totally unable to pay sixteen francs to a hat-maker, being forced to live from hand to mouth.

A Start in Life 2007

"Conversation" Sharp, hat-maker, poet and member of Parliament.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The confirmation, according to my mocking summary of the impression produced by it, consisted mainly in the hiring of a tall silk hat from the hat-maker, and the sending of it back next day, sanctified.

Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

There was a saleswoman from Ludwig Street; a clerk with a pock-marked face from a produce store; the dignified preceptress of a Kindergarten; an official of the savings bank; the hat-maker from the corner of the Market Place with his grown daughter; and the sergeant who invariably saluted when he passed by her.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

The confirmation, according to my mocking summary of the impression produced by it, consisted mainly in the hiring of a tall silk hat from the hat-maker, and the sending of it back next day, sanctified.

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Morris Cohen Brandes 1884

This hat-maker, despite his peaceful occupation, was called by his friends Captain Cooper, for he had been a good soldier of the

Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856

There is not a man or hat-maker born into the world but feels, or has felt, that he is degrading himself if he speak of his excellencies and prowesses, and supremacy in his craft: his inmost heart says to him, "Leave thy friends to speak of these; if possible, thy enemies to speak of these; but at all events, thy friends!"

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838