Milliner
Milliner: Hats for church, weddings and every Saturday. No woman goes out without a hat, and no woman wants to meet her own hat in the street, so a milliner…
Hats for church, weddings and every Saturday. Sell the hat nobody else in the town is wearing.
No woman goes out without a hat, and no woman wants to meet her own hat in the street, so a milliner buys shapes and trims them in the back room to make each one different. The season turns at Easter and again in the autumn, and a window of last season's hats is money standing still. When hats stop being worn, the trade goes with them in little more than a decade.
- Setup costs
- £8,200 to £44,000
- Competition
- Medium
- Category
- Shops & High Street Services
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