This is the story of someone who made hats.

 

Lilly Daché was born in rural France at the end of the nineteenth century. After learning how to make hats in Bordeaux and Paris, she set out with only thirteen dollars in her pocket to make a life for herself in New York. She opened her own hat shop on the Upper West Side and grew her business until she commanded a nine-story millinery headquarters known as the ‘House of Daché.” By the time she retired in 1968, she was regarded as the premiere hat-maker in America.

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This book is about her wonderful, whimsical work, which boomed in tandem with the Roaring 20’s, and her legacy as a self-made woman in a male-dominated industry and era. But more than that, this book is about the power and hope that lie in personal expression, and the joy in finding your own voice through creativity, no matter what’s on top of your head. 

 

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