HAT SALE - Enjoy up to 20%
Hi Hat Lovers,
As you already know we’ve moved to Queensland and we are overflowing with hats in our new studio so we though it would be a great time to have a hat sale on selected current ready made hats, accessories & vintage hats..
Enjoy up to 20% off, head over to our online shop to shop now….
Thank you all for supporting our small business
Happy Winter with love,
Your Milliner
Ilana Xx
BY THE SEASIDE - Our SS23/24 Collection
The House Of Hats Newest Collection….’ BY THE SEASIDE ‘ is here just in time for summer.. Step into a world of timeless charm and elegance.
Get ready to elevate your summer style with The House of Hats latest collection of stunning handcrafted hats!
Made from only the finest material and inspired by the timeless fashion of the 1930s our new collection is the perfect addition to your summer wardrobe.
Offering nine new original handcrafted styles exclusive to our brand each delicate piece has been expertly handcrafted in our Sydney Studio by renowned Milliner Ilana Meilak, ensuring that every hat is of the highest quality and designed to last.
We’ve added our signature style of adding vintage trims and buckles to this collection to keep it authentic to the era.
Whether you’ve looking for a stylist for a day at the beach, a chic addition to your summer outfit or simply want to make a statement at your next event, our new collection has something for everyone.
So why wait? head over to our shop to view tghe full collection or pop into our Sydney Showroom to try them all on in person.
Trust us, you wont be disappointed…..
ilana is wearing our AHOY MINI BOATER in French Navy
Watch our ‘ BY THE SEASIDE Campaign Video to view the Collection
SEASONS IN TIME - New Women's Winter Hat Collection
BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE …. Winter is here and lucky for you we have you covered !! with our newest women’s hat collection.
The House Of Hats has some amazing new Winter Style Hats in our Online shop to keeps you warm and looking fabulous all winter long.
Our Newest collection of Vintage Inspired hats inspired by the season in times of different eras from the 1920s- 1960s
We have four new hat designs available in luxurious fur felt in Winter shades, such as Forest, Smoke, Caramel and Ebony.
Like our ‘ Velvet Royale ‘ Pill box hat inspired by the 1940s and the glamour, a perfect after 5 cocktail hat worn tilted on the side slight forward or can be worn on the back of the head for a more 60s feel, so versatile the choice is yours !
Our ‘ Baby it’s Cold Outside’ Fur Felt turban is a 60s dream hat, perfect for everyday to keep your head warm, this classic style will be your winter staple hat.
Our ‘ Season’s Fur Felt Beret for the beret lovers out there, the perfect side that sits elegantly on the side of the head for a true french parisenne style.
Our ‘ Time After Time’ Tilt hat will transform you back to the late 1930s , teamed with a felt art deco hat pin, you will defiantly turn heads with this hat.
And last but not least our ‘ Doves’ cloche hat , inspired by the 1920s in the perfect dove grey for all you cloche lovers out there.
These are all available Ready to ship now in our Online Hat Shop or can be custom made in any colour you choose,
Stay Warm and Fabulous….
Our ‘ VELVET ROYALE ‘ Tilt hat is a luxurious hat perfect for after five.
Hand made on a vintage hat blocked and covered in the most beautiful vintage gold flocked velvet , and lined in black satin and vintage gold petersham ribbon.
Attaches to the head with two comb and some millinery elastic.
Wear our ‘ VELVET ROYALE ‘ Tilted on the side or on the back of your head.
The perfect finishing touch to any cocktail outfit or any occasion.
Our ‘ BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE ‘ Turban is the perfect winter hat to wear everyday.
Hand blocked on an original 1960s wooden hat block into the most perfect turban hat
that sits snug onto your head for that cold winter days..add your favourite winter coat and your ready to go…
Available now in Forest but can be made to order in other colours.
Our ‘ TIME AFTER TIME ‘ Tilt Hat in the most beautiful soft caramel colour perfect for winter.
Hand blocked on a vintage wooden block into the perfect 40s style tilt hat that is worn on the side of the head,
Finished with a vintage tortoise shell buckle on the back and a handmade felt hat pin in caramel and brown.
This hat is one size and has a comb on the inside to attach to the head, and also the hat pin to secure.
Our ‘ SEASONS ‘ felt beret is a classic style that can be worn everyday to dress up any outfit.
Hand blocked on a vintage wooden block from the most luxurious fur felt in a smoke grey into the perfect beret that sits effortlessly on the side of the head.
Our DOVE Cloche is a Beautiful 1920s vintage style cloche made from the highest quality fur felt in a dove grey colour way and is hand blocked on an antique wooden hat block
using traditional millinery techniques and meticulously sculptured into the perfect everyday cloche hat.
Designed to fit snug and close fitting onto the head and coming down longer on the side.
Delicately finished with an original 1920s celluloid buckle in yellow & white with rhinestones with a matching dove grey grosgrain ribbon around the crown featuring matching hand stitched yellow thread
We hope you all enjoy our new hat collection all available in our online shop & Sydney Hat Shop/Showroom
All our hats are handmade in our Sydney hat studio and are 100% Australian made using the highest quality locally sourced materials.
Thank you for supporting our small business & don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date with our New Arrivals, sales and news.
Much Love…
Your Milliner
Ilana x
ONCE BITTEN...The House Of Hats New Halloween Collection 2022
ilana wears our ‘ LA BELLE ‘ Red Felt veiled Tilt Hat
October is finally here and you know what that means, yes you guessed it...HALLOWEEN.
If your anything like me, you count down the month's till Halloween and prepare a costume just to get your spook on.
Well i've been super prepared this year and have made an entire collection dedicated to the dark side.
I'm so excited to introduce to you our latest collection for halloween
' ONCE BITTEN ' inspired by all things Victorian gothic.
This collection is going to knock your socks off, I'm very proud of it and i hope you love it as much as I do.
Ever since I was a child i've always been fascinated with the Victorian era, the fashion , the Victorian houses ,the jewellery and everything else.
I always dreamed of owning an victorian bustle dress and hat of course hoping I could wear it and somehow time travel back to that time, so i've conjured up some of that time in this collection along with my love of all things vampires , witches , New Orleans & all the old haunted Mansions.
So here it is and you all get the honour of previewing it first.
We have seven new designs in this collection.
Introducing , our ' LA BELLE ' Hat which screams the Victorian Bustle era with her striped sash bow and face veiling.
Our ' GRACE ' hood hats made of the most luxurious velvet and detailed with vintage rare clasps .
Our ' SPELLBOUND ' Velvet turbans with Rhinestone Spider brooches and our ' ROSES OF RED silk flower headpieces.
Our ' ONCE BITTEN ' Collection is perfect to bring out the dark goddess in you just in time for Halloween.
I hope you all enjoy this collection as much as I did creating it.
Head over to our online boutique to view the full collection.
Wishing you a very spooky season & happy Shopping
Love Ilana
Your Milliner x
ilana wears our ‘ GRACE VELVET HOOD ‘ In Raven
ilana wears our ‘ROSES ARE RED ; Silk flower Headpiece
ilana wears our ‘ROSES ARE BLACK ‘ Silk Flower Headpiece
ilana wear our ‘GRACE ‘ Velvet Hood in Crimson
ilana wears our ‘SPELLBOUND ‘ Velvet Turban in Raven
ilana wears our ‘ SPELLBOUND ‘ Velvet Turban in Crimson
Behind The Scenes of our new Showroom
Behind the scenes of The House Of Hats new showroom in Sydney Australia
We have been super busy designing and renovating our new space and creating our beautiful new showroom.
Before our renovation
We started off with a blank canvas in this victorian room with stunning marble fireplace and ornate ceiling as our feature.
Black Feature Wall
We wanted to stick with my logo colours , so went with a black feature wall around the fireplace and light green walls.
The theme for the room was inspired by the old victorian millinery shops back in the 1900s , we already had this antique timber mirror but we jazzed it up by painted it gold and how spectacular does it look .
We managed to find an incredible antique 1920s copper & glass shop display counter which was the perfect fit in the middle of the room and we also found a antique velvet chaise lounge at an estate sale that fits in with the theme perfectly.
Willow modelling on our Antique Chaise
We painted our wooden hat stands gold to match our feature mirror.
Our Gold Wooden Hat Stands
We designed the shelf layout and found a local carpenter that custom made a cupboard and timber shelves built on both wall for hat display and hat box storage.
Design for Shelves
Finished Timber Shelves
We are now just in the final stages of finishing and are just waiting on curtains and another cabinet to be painted and we will be finished,
Stay tuned for the final reveal.
As seen in Camilla's New Collection ' Time Trippin' The House Of Hats UTOPIA Pearl Crown.
We are so thrilled to be featured in CAMILLA’S new collection TIME TRIPPIN
Inspired by our favourite eras with beautiful Art deco ,Art nouveau and Baroque Style Prints , this collection is out of this world…
Our UTOPIA Gold Pearl Crown featured on the stunning Mercy Rose Watson looking like something out of a fairytale photographed Sydney’s State theatre Butterfly Room.
UTOPIA Gold Pearl Crown modelled by Mercy Rose Watson for Camilla
The House Of Hats UTOPIA Gold Pearl Crown modelled by Mercy Rose Watson for Camilla
The House of Hats UTOPIA Gold Pearl Crown as Featured in Camilla
The House Of Hats UTOPIA Pearl Crown as Featured in Camilla
Now Introducing AFTERPAY
We are so excited to now be offering you 'AFTERPAY' as a payment option in our Online Store.
You can now make a purchase and Pay Later...Afterpay lets you buy something and pay for it in instalments
Just select the 'AFTERPAY ' Option in our checkout.
AFTERPAY ... HOW DOES IT WORK?
AfterPay is the online payment method that allows you to pay for your online purchases after receiving them. You only pay for what you want to keep, and you will never have to pay in advance again.
you'll need to commit to making four fortnightly payments over eight weeks.
These payments are of equal value for each order and are interest-free. Convenient and secure!
Head over to our online store to purchase using Afterpay now !!
Head over to our Online Store to make a purchase using AFTERPAY now..
SPRING is Finally Here
SPRING is finally here , wow what a whirlwind of a year we all have had, it's been a very challenging year for all of us, I hope you have all been well and safe through this pandemic and wishing us all better times ahead.
We haven't stopped creating and have new exciting styles coming soon.
We will be adding some new coloured straw hats to our ' Folk ' Range and will have options of different brim sizes.
We have sourced some incredible sixties pattern fabrics and trims and we are excited to show you.
For our International hat lovers coming into the cooler season we haven't forgotten about you.
We will be introducing some wonderful new colours to our Felt Hat Collection you are going to love these.
So you now have the choice of hats to wear all year round
Our Hats are such beautiful high quality durable to wear everyday and will last you a lifetime.....
We have had such a wonderful response to our new ' CHRYSALIS ' collection and are selling out fast, these hats are limited and are mostly one offs due their vintage fabrics and trims so once they are gone there gone, so if you have your eye on something grab it before its gone forever
We just wanted to say a huge Thank you for all your ongoing love & support for our small business this year.
It gives us such joy to see our hats on you and you enjoying wearing them.
The House Of Hats Flare Street Velvet Turban
The House Of Hats Velvet Turban Using Flare Street Melbourne Cut Offs
Loving our new Psychedelic turban using Flare Street velvet offcuts that we patch worked together to create this
incredible turban.
Unfortunately this one is not available as it’s just a one off piece I made for my personal collection but we do have some other incredible velvet turbans in our online shop or contact us to create a turban especially for you.
Sewing these amazing 60s patterned velvet off cuts together from Flare Street
It actually took me hours to get these perfectly positioned together to show off these amazing prints.
Our finished product, we were extremely happy with the outcome of this turban.
If you haven’t already got a pair of flare Street Velvet flares your missing out, They make the most incredible velvet stretch flares in the most
out of this world 60s prints.
I’ve already got two pairs and growing , they are the most comfortable and best cut flares ever !!1
Flare Street in based in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Make sure you check out their website.
www.flarestreet.com
AUTUMN HAT SALE
AUTUMN is finally here , time to layer up and get all cosy.
Autumn is our favourite time of the year when the sun is shining but the air is crisp and we get to wear our favourite winter coats and hats.
We are now having our Annual HAT SALE of vintage hats , some from our own personal collection.
Dating from the 1930's - 1970's.
Vintage hats starting from $15 grab a bargain , there are hats for everyone.
Don't miss out they are selling out fast.
Head over to our online boutique to view our hat sale.
We also have some wonderful new products from our new collection CHRYSALIS.
Our new collection has over 30 new styles of hat & accessories that are fun and colourful for everyday wear.
So much colour to brighten up any outfit with a late 60's early 70's vibe.
We will be featuring some of our new products in this newsletter.
Head over to our shop to view our ' CHRYSALIS' Collection.
Thank you for all your ongoing love & support for our small business.
We are so happy you love our hats and we love seeing them on you.
Please feel free to follow our Instagram account @thehouseofhats_ and tag us wearing your hats from us , we would love to see them on you.
MY VINTAGE VALENTINE The House Of Hats A/W 19 Collection
‘ My Vintage Valentine’ is The House Of Hats A/W 19 Collection.
Sydney Milliner ilana Meilak designed and created this beautiful collection of Hats inspired by Valentine’s Day in Paris 1940’s. Each Hat is named in French as a refection to the passion and love of Valentine’s Day. GIGI Our stunning black fur felt heart shaped halo bonnet with big red satin chin tie.
JE T’AIME ( pictured on the right ) Our pinup red velvet heart with cascading smaller hearts , so fun and flirty.
MON CHERI our small percher hat with bow front Swarovski Red Crystal detail and long red veiling that can be draped around the neck for a dramatic film noir feel.
AMOUR Our side heart shaped black cocktail hat with red velvet heart front detail and b lack veiling across the face.
And last of our collection is COEURS meaning ( Hearts) red veiled headpiece with sparkling heart shaped Swarovski Crystals scattered over the veiling.
The Colour pallet is all black and red reflecting love and decadence. Luxurious Fur Felts and Velvets , and rich red ribbon creates these stunning one off hats.
The wonderful hat styles are all designed off original 1940’s style hats that women worn in this time.
Indulge in the decadence of our vintage inspired Valentine’s designs. Hypnotise with Old Hollywood style, glamour and allure or lose yourself in the fantasy of classic film noir 1940s France. ‘My Vintage Valentine’is the epitome of elegance and romance brought to life through the unique, quality craftsmanship The House of Hats is known and loved for. Le coup de foudre! (love at first sight).
Our GIGI Hat
'JE T'AIME'
Meet ‘ Je T’ Aime The first hat in our ‘ Vintage Valentine ‘ Collection…
Je T’ Aime is purely inspired my the 1940’s pinups , The Je T’aime Hat is one of a kind and made from the softest rich red velvet and is meticulously hand sewn into the perfect Valentine’s day Heart. Je T’aime is trimmed with a soft red pom pom trim and three falling hearts the fall in perfect order on the side of the head. The Heart is attached to a black velvet headband to sit comfortably on the head at the perfect front tilt
Shop our Hat Shop to view our whole collection of women’s hats.
Our MON CHERIE Hat
