{"id":234248,"date":"2025-01-15T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=234248"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:00:55","slug":"master-hatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/master-hatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Master hatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Miller has been making hats for over 30 years: what started as a stint of work experience at the tender age of 14 went on to become a skill he learned to master and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Miller remembers helping his father work from home making clothes. \u201cThe bobbin was winding side to side, super fast on a lovely old vintage Singer sewing machine, I was 12 years old and that was when it all started. It would be blouses, skirts, ski-pants (I know) \u2026 but I do remember making my first hat. It was a promotion for Tour de France and Michelin tyres, cycling caps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olney\u2019s Headwear, established in 1915, had a reputation for making the best fine hats and caps in the UK. From 1988 on-and-off until 2019, Miller was to craft hats for luxury brands and internationally celebrated hatters worldwide. He worked closely with the in-house designers becoming a supervisor and an integral member of the design team.<\/p>\n<p>Mister Miller hand makes every one of his caps in Britain using the noblest materials from leading weavers of wools, cashmeres and Harris tweeds.<\/p>\n<p>Every cap is created for men and women alike with the occasional family outfit being made-to-order complete with monograms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243635 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Shearling-Landing-1-1286x697-1-850x460.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234243 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mister-miller-story-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234239 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4124-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-234241 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KENTRIKH-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KENTRIKH-17.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KENTRIKH-17-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KENTRIKH-17-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photos Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mistermiller.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mistermiller.co.uk\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister Miller has been making hats for over 30 years: what started as a stint of work experience at the tender age of 14 went on to become a skill he learned to master and enjoy. Miller remembers helping his father work from home making clothes. \u201cThe bobbin was winding side to side, super fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":243637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18513,18542,18563],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243639,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234248\/revisions\/243639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}