{"id":1617,"date":"2018-04-13T20:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T17:06:31","slug":"hats-and-the-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/2018\/04\/13\/hats-and-the-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats and the Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Shirley Whitfield talked to the members about her working life making hats and theatrical costumes. She started her apprenticeship in London at L&amp;H Nathens, theatrical costumers established in 1790 situated off the Haymarket in London. She has made costumes and hats for television and the Theatres including Covent Garden ballet and opera productions .She talked about when she renewed the ermine collars from the pageantry outfits (Lords and regal dress) and replaced with rabbit, and\u00a0 films where she created costumes for the artists to wear. She eventually moved with her husband to Nottingham and she went to work at the Nottingham Playhouse as Wardrobe mistress and she bought a selection of hats which she had made during her working life<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1618 alignleft\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-2-e1523646465564-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-2-e1523646465564-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-2-e1523646465564.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1619 alignnone\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-6-e1523646611418-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-6-e1523646611418-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats-6-e1523646611418.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1620 alignright\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats4-e1523646631880-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats4-e1523646631880-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2018\/04\/Hats4-e1523646631880.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Shirley Whitfield talked to the members about her working life making hats and theatrical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hats and the Theatre | News | Blog | Events | SI Mansfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Mansfield and District : Blog &amp; News : Hats and the Theatre : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Mansfield and District . 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