Visitors enjoy workshops and activities at new Bankfield Museum exhibition ‘A hat for all seasons’

‘A hat for all seasons’ launched on Saturday (March 11) with a special Hat Day, with free children’s hat-making activities, hat trails and hat balloon modelling throughout the day.

The varied styles and designs on display at the exhibit show the progression of headwear, from the bonnets and ‘toppers’ of the Eighteenth Century to baseball caps and Ascot hats of the current day.

Prominent Yorkshire milliners Jenny Roberts and Sherry Richardson have collaborated with the museum for the exhibition, loaning hats for display which show the breadth and possibilities of contemporary hat making. These include a range of designer hats worn for special occasions and showstoppers from the fashion catwalk.

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