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Millinery: The Stanley Bramble by Lauren J Ritchie Millinery
The Stanley Bramble features a collection of glimmering floating feather shapes over a smooth beret shaped base. Each perspective of this piece gives a point of interest with a slight sparkle appearing through the rich red shapes. This style is one size fits all and is secured to the head with a shaped base, elastic and comb.
Made as an entry for the Millinery Australia Happy Hour A Cocktail Celebration Competition the piece is named after the Bramble Cocktail created by Dick Bradsell in 1980s London, England. It is the ideal spring cocktail made with dry gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup, crème de mûre, and crushed ice.
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Sustainability & The Stanley Bramble
Words: Lauren J Ritchie
Millinery is a naturally very environmentally conscious industry with an approach that sees makers try to have zero waste. I commonly repurpose and upcycle older styles that I have sourced from op shops or vintage stores pulling them apart to use quality vintage materials to give them a second life. Working with a diverse range of natural fibres including many materials made from straw offcuts are commonly kept for trims for the next project. Small scraps are sometimes reluctantly thrown away with some able to be placed into the compost.
The Stanley bramble is constructed of a Sinamay base that was material remaining from a previous project that supports a lame and tulle fabric covering. For the trim I wanted to create floating feathers but was looking for an alternative to natural feathers as the supply chain for feathers is difficult to trace. In response to this, I designed this layered material effect that was constructed with wire for the quill and material to create the plume shape.
Above: Millinery by Lauren J Ritchie Millinery, Photography by Ben Christie Media, Modelled by Erin Ritchie, Styled by Two Sewing Sisters
