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Custom Headpieces Aren't Just For Brides
Treat yourself to a one-of-a-kind designer headpiece.
It isn’t just brides to be who can experience a custom headpiece from Holly Barker Millinery! If you love to show off your style, the Spring Racing season, Christmas and New Year events, or special anniversary’s are the perfect excuses to wear a unique headpiece that will turn heads and get everyone talking for all the right reasons.
Off and racing
If you want to put your best foot forward for “fashions on the field”, we can help you choose a custom headpiece that will stand out from the crowd and complement your racing outfit. Imagine strutting your stuff on the stage, your friend’s cheer you on as you take out best dressed, and then celebrate with you long into the night! Make a statement with custom headpieces like:
- The “Aria” headpiece featuring black and antique gold raw silk geometric features. The shapes of this exquisite headpiece and its base are teamed with jet black Swarovski ® crystals to add a subtle shimmer to your racewear outfit.
- The “Paris Pink” headpiece, which gives a nod to racing fashion but updates the traditional veil look.
- The popular boater style of the yellow “Sunny” headpiece is edged in a crisp white raw silk trim. You’ll have everyone commenting on your elegance and sense of racewear fashion fun.
- The feminine “Cherry” headpiece. Perfect for the racing dress circle, this black straw button headpiece with a cream Paris straw swirl is finished with a delicate cream and pink cherry blossom feature.
Choose the right custom headpiece
Choose the right custom headpiece and you can make it work with different outfits, so it can do the duty as the centerpiece for your Melbourne Cup and Perth Cup fashion statements, Christmas and New Years, and more.
We can work together to choose a custom headpiece to suit your outfit. You’ll have heads turning! Make a new years’ resolution to follow your fashion dreams and create a stir with a custom headpiece like:
- The “Very Blackberry” headpiece. This stunning crown is hand-wired with lustrous Swarovski ® pearls in a special edition ‘blackberry’ colour. A modern, glamourous and elegant choice.
- If you’re a fan of Vintage French veiling, the “Bronwyn” is perfect for you. This delicate veiling is finished with three bronze flowers on either side. This headpiece clips in easily and can be adapted no matter how you decide to wear your hair on the day.
- For elegant simplicity, you can’t go past the “Vintage French” trim black headpiece. A modern statement with a hint of 1920’s elegance, wear it across the forehead or over the eyes to really dazzle that Christmas celebration.
Make it special
We love helping our clients choose headpieces to match their outfits and personalities. Having a custom headpiece is often the first time many women have worn a headpiece, and the first time they have had something that is truly one of a kind. So go ahead and treat yourself — you deserve it.
Email Holly today to chat about a custom headpiece for your special event. Let’s work together to choose something amazing.
A message from Holly. Today, in the twenty first century, we live hurried lives. We barely have time to sit down — and when we do, we can’t help but fill those few seconds with likes and shares and buys and downloads... But, a s a Milliner, I need to slow myself right down and abide by a very careful and precise process. One which, has been followed by Milliners around the world for centuries.
Create a centerpiece for your bridal ensemble that turns heads and captures the true spirit of you and your love story, and look like you just stepped off the cover of Vogue . A recent photoshoot at Faversham House, York, Perth was the perfect setting to showcase our very Vogue haute couture headpieces. Captured in a stunning colonial-style redbrick mansion amongst five acres of picturesque vineyards and gardens, Faversham House is a charming National Trust establishment and popular WA wedding venue.
I had a really, vague conceptual ideal of what I wanted for my wedding. I knew I didn’t want a veil as it isn’t really my style and didn’t go with my dress. I imagined something delicate and crown like, but that was kind of it... That was why it was so amazing coming Holly Barker Millinery. Holly somehow managed to get this very vague and conceptual idea and make it into a reality that was better than anything I could imagine — t he experience was fantastic! At at our first meeting, I showed Holly a picture of my dress and described this unbelievably unspecific idea I had, and she drew the perfect headpiece right there in front of me. I was just in awe. Over the next weeks, getting the emailed updates was so exciting. When my mum and I went to pick it up, it was the first part of my wedding outfit that was finalised, and it was so special. I could really start to see everything come together! I am still in awe of the intricate work and beauty of it. Holly was such a delight to work with, and made the whole experience so special. I just loved the experience and I was beyond happy with what was designed for me. Thanks again for everything, Holly — I really can’t express enough how much I loved my headpiece and what a joy it was working with you!" — Annaliese
