MILLINER TO THE QUEEN

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27794, 20 October 1955, Page 2

MILLINER TO THE QUEEN

ROYAL WARRANT GRANTED The Queen has granted her first and only Royal Warrant for a milliner to a West End hat designer, Kate Day. News of Miss Day’s honour came as a surprise to the fashion world in London. Although it was known she has often made some of the Queen’s hats, credit for the greater part of the Royal millinery has been accorded to other designers with a more keenly developed sense of publicity. Now it has been made clear that even if others do design hats for the Queen, Miss Day is officially the Royal Milliner. A friendly Yorkshire woman with twinkling blue eyes and a winning charm. Miss Day will never discuss anything about her Royal client—perhaps another reason why she managed to get that valuable warrant where others did not. She has known the Quedn for many years, and first started making hats for her when she was Princess Elizabeth. All that Miss Day will admit is that the Queen does not visit her Mount street salon, but when necessary Miss Day drives to Buckingham Palace with a selection of her hats. Many of the hats worn by the Queen on the Royal tour of New Zealand were designed by Kate Day. Her new collection points up Miss Day’s flair for designing hats that arc always quietly distinctive, but never extreme: always superbly worked with great attention to colour, and alwayr easy to wear. The Royal Warrant means that Miss Day will be the only milliner anywhere in the world who is permitted to use the words, “By Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11. “