Royal Ascot is usually a week of peacockery, when we delight in donning our finest millinery – or poring over pictures of those who have taken their headgear to neck-strength-defying levels of OTT-ness.
Alas, this year it is not to be – even if many of them would have been excellent for enforcing social distancing.Gamely, Britain’s milliners have pivoted from concocting designs for Ascot and weddings to creating hats that work for now. “It was pretty daunting back in April when we realised that the summer season was going to be cancelled,” says Jess Collett, whose hats are loved by the likes of Pippa Middleton and Princess Eugenie. “I was really worried that we wouldn’t have any business at all, we rely so heavily on the summer events for.
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