Millinery for Fashion and Costume

Program Overview

This short course teaches the art of millinery, focusing on practical hat-making skills for fashion and costume applications. The course is suitable for individuals looking to enhance their skills as costume or fashion professionals or hobbyists, or those considering millinery as a career path. Participants will receive hands-on instruction and guidance, with the opportunity to discuss their future millinery aspirations.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This short course is designed for anyone looking to enhance their skills as a costume or fashion professional or hobbyist. It focuses on millinery, the art of hat making, and its applications in fashion and costume. The course emphasizes practical skills, 3D thinking, and project planning. The course is also suitable for individuals who are interested in exploring millinery as a potential career path.

Teaching:

The course is highly practical and classroom-based, led by a tutor. Participants will receive hands-on instruction and guidance, learning through group demonstrations, samples, paper-based instructions, and one-on-one feedback and tutorials. The course emphasizes practical skills, with participants creating their own finished hat by the end of the program.

Careers:

The course can help participants boost their existing skills as costume or fashion professionals. It can also open up new career avenues by adding millinery to their portfolio.

Other:

The course provides participants with knowledge of millinery stitches and construction techniques, equipment knowledge and training, understanding and working with materials used in millinery, applying cover trims and finishing techniques, and the context of contemporary millinery and its history. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss their ideas about where to take their millinery skills next.