Hats rule

The Milliners Guild of New York took over Fifth Avenue last Wednesday evening for their second annual “Walk of the Catherinettes”.
The starting point : the Millinery Center Synagogue, in the Garment District.
As such, the Millinery district is a remnant of its former glory. The heyday of the 1930’s and 40’s, when hats were a vital segment of the garment industry, is gone. But hooray, a new crop of milliners has begun to mill-about, in New York, and beyond. As an art, and as a craft, millinery is batting a thousand at the moment.
The Guild takes off across the Avenue, through Bryant Park , where the Christmas Fair is already in evidence, and ice-skaters fill the “Pond”. The thrill of seeing a hundred heads or more wearing hats turns heads along the way. At the Atlas statue in front of Rockefeller Plaza, the Milliners join in the cry: “Hats What I’m Talking About!”
St. Catherine’s Day is normally celebrated on November 26th.Single women, yet unmarried, who work in the ateliers of Paris, participate in a fashion show of sorts, all wearing extraordinary hats in yellow and green, to honor St. Catherine. In New York, the colorway is anyway you choose, and the limitations of being single, unmarried, or even a milliner are not enforced. The Walk of the Catherinettes includes friends and family all in a merry band wending their way up to the final destination of the evening.
Champagne Hour at Haven, with hors d’oeuvres is the last stop. Tonight ,in this gorgeous boite that resembles a Victorian Gentlemen’s club,
it’s all about having your picture taken in an antique frame. Hats fill the walls of the mezzanine in a ravishing display of hats by members of the Guild. Veuve Clicquot and hats rule as the winner of the Best Hat takes home a bottle of champagne as their prize.