Angeline Alice Millinery

Kelly Schultz has been the owner, designer and milliner for Angeline Alice Millinery since 2011. Her mother, LaVanche Freichels (1942-1989), taught her to sew at age eight and the rest is history. Angeline Alice Millinery is named after her two grandmothers, Angeline Freichels (1902-1991) and Alice Grubich (1915-1975) who lived in an era where it was proper etiquette for women to wear hats. 

 

Kelly was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She moved to Bemidji in 2004 and lived there until March of 2023. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2023 and moved back to St. Paul in May of 2024. "There's no place like home!"

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Kelly’s passion for making fascinators came from watching the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011. Since then, Kelly has made hundreds of unique fascinators, hatinators, headpieces, hair accessories and hats. Some of her favorite embellishments and textiles to use are feathers from birds native to Minnesota, ribbon, buttons, brooches, crystal beads, rhinestones, tulle, sinamay, lace, silk, satin, wool, and brocade. Every item she makes is unique and you will never find another one exactly like it.

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Kelly can also be commissioned for custom headpieces for any holiday or occasion. Please send inquiries to kelly@angelinealice.com.

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The old saying goes 'if you want to get ahead and get noticed, then get a hat'.

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What is a MILLINER? "Millinery has existed in Britain since 1700.  In English courts the term milliner was used and this was derived from the term for travelling haberdashers from Milan in Italy.  These travelling sales people sold all the items necessary to dress and were called millaners. In France hats were made by hatmakers called chapeliers.  Today the term modiste is used in France.  Today technically a hatmaker makes hats for men whilst a milliner makes hats for women." ~ The Wearing of Hats Fashion History by Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com