Hatmakers

Fancy hats, toques, top hats, flat caps, calashes, turbans, bonnets, veils, helmets, tiaras, kippas, ushanka hats, cowboy hats, highlander’s caps, bowler hats, side caps, and sombreros – the list of headgear that the opera house’s hatmakers is neverending. Each production requires from 30 to 200 different millinery products. And sometimes a special order comes in. For example a hat for Madame Butterfly that has a dimater of one metre…