I am particularly indebted to the following who generously gave their time, advice and expertise in compiling information for this work. My thanks to them all.
To my brother Chris Kimpton, for his excellent photographic skills and advice.
Ruth Battersby Tooke and Lisa Little – Curator and Curatorial Assistant respectively of the Norwich Castle Museum Costume and Textile Study Centre.
My grateful thanks to Orla Fitzpatrick – Irish photo-historian, for her kind permission to use Irish Edwardian wedding images from her archive.
Thanks also to Paul Moorehead, Chairman of the Hat Pin Society of Great Britain. (Now sadly disbanded).
Similarly, I must also give special thanks to Jodi Lenocker, President of The American Hatpin Society and Leslie Woodbury (images) for their special assistance.
For her help with the Coco Chanel images and text, I am indebted to Cécile Goddet-Dirles, Direction du Patrimonie, Chanel – Paris.
For their kind permission to use the Hewitt family photograph, I thank Ron Weibe and the Trustees of the Mo Museum, Sheringham, Norfolk.
Also, to Tommy Heywood-Briggs for the use of his Edwardian Bridges family wedding photograph. To Brian Turner and Martin Loader for their help with the Blackpool tram image and the Witney railway station images respectively.
Matt Jeffrey – Senior Programmes Manager, The National Audubon Society of America.
Olivia Betts – Media and Campaigns Co-ordinator at the The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK, and Martin Fowlie – Communications Manager at BirdLife International.
Anne Bissonnette Phd. Curator of the Clothing and Textile Collection – University of Alberta, Canada.
Hilda Boshoff of the C.P. Nel Museum in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape Province, South Africa who has been wonderfully helpful in making available a number of period images in connection with the feather industry in that country.
Noé Auvélius – Communications Officer for both Leighton House Museum and 18, Stafford Terrace (Linley Sambourne House) – London.
The Imperial War Museum, London.
Special thanks also to Alyce Cornyn-Selby of The Hat Museum, (The National Hat Museum) Portland, Oregon, USA for her generous help and input and similarly to Deborah Burke of The Antique Vintage Dress Gallery of Stamford, Connecticut.