When A Custom Hatter Gets Bored On The Job
Recently my boss damaged out several of these Goorin Lady Latchford fedoras. She left them for me to re-purpose in the same way I did the hats for the 30′s party, and we documented what only took half an hour to do. Myself – looking dorkie. Five minutes over the block and shaped by hand … Read more
30′s Swing Social Custom Hats
Last Saturday I worked my fourth party for Goorin, a 1930′s themed “Swing Social”, with live swing music and swing dancer that appeared out of nowhere! It was a good thing we were prepared, Shani asked me to custom design hats for our female staff based on shapes I liked and with re-purposed hats damaged … Read more
Deighton Cup
The Goorin Yaletown shop goes to the Deighton Cup, a charity Horse race at Hastings racecourse every year in the summer. Always setting the right tone Maria in the Shower was there to provide music and Goorin along with several other business set up tables in the sun for the day. As we’ve also been … Read more
Custom Hat Requests with Goorin
The weeks leading up to my vacation were furiously busy for me in the shop now that we are trying to accommodate customers looking for custom pieces. I had been working closely with a lovely customer Loraine, negotiating how we could go about creating several custom pieces for her to wear to a wedding … Read more
Merchant Love
I was given some love on our Goorin Merchant blog last week check it out. Goorin Hatters Blog OH and also, had to share with everyone my all time favorite photo from the San Francisco trip. This is myself and the coolest girl I know in San Francisco, fellow Custom Hatter Zoe :) Happy hatting … Read more
New Career
Wow. So much has happened in the last month that I had to take a hiatus and regroup. At the end of May I was included in a Custom Hatters workshop in San Francisco for the company I work for Goorin Brothers. What. A. Trip. And what an incredible company. I feel more like family … Read more
“Vogue” by Elijah Yutuc
Elijah is a good friend of mine and coworker at Goorin Brothers. He is graduating, quite soon, from a photo program at Langara College, and I had the pleasure of doing this collaboration several weeks ago with him for an assignment on lighting. He knew I had a passion for emulating 30′s and 40′s manner … Read more
Goorin Party/ Mysterious Millinery Absence
I’ve been on hiatus as of late because my computer, along with all of my new photos, was in the apple store over the Holiday recovering from a spill. Oh well back to business. Hats! A few weeks ago my friends Maria in the Shower played the Goorin Holiday party in store from 6-9. My … Read more
