THEATRICAL MILLINERY
Bonnet, after breaking down.
Great Expectations, designed by Dale Ferguson (2002)
Australian Ballet Sleeping Beauty ensemble headwear
Hudson ROSE
Bonnet (before breaking down) Great Expectations, designed by Dale Ferguson (2002)
The business model while working at Stella Long’s was about making affordable hats with trimmings and adjustments to pre- blocked hats. Rose recalls: “Stella would come up the stairs and clap her hands in the doorway and ask, ‘How many hats have you made today? Put all your work over there, what have you made?’ We would all be shaking in our boots, we were supposed to have produced five or six hats a day.”
Except for a short period working for William Beale at Mr Individual, Rose spent ten years employed by Miss Long, entering as a trainee and by the end providing the training to the new members of staff. Stella reluctantly decided to close the
Rose Hudson is celebrating her 40th year in millinery this year. She started her career after choosing to leave school in year 11 to pursue an apprenticeship. Obtaining a position at Stella Long in 1979, Rose began her training in the Block Arcade on Collins Street in Melbourne at age 16. by Lauren Ritchie
business due to an unmanageable increase in rent in 1988. The stock and equipment was advertised for sale and through this, Rose met some of Melbourne’s leading milliners who offered her work after Stella closed down. The first place she worked was for Tamasine Dale. Rose assisted in the production of large- scale ready to wear orders for brands such as Sportsgirl for the Australian market as well as realising Tamasine’s designs for performers such as Kylie Minogue and Kate Ceberano.
Rose got a casual job as assistant milliner on an Opera Australia production of My Fair Lady in 1988, which starred Helen Buday as Eliza, with costumes designed by Anthony Phillips. It is this
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