Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lilly Dache

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American fashion designer Lilly Dache.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Lilly Dache

Lilly Daché was a French-born American milliner and fashion merchandiser. She started her career in a small bonnet shop, advanced to being a sales lady at Macy's department store, and from there started her own hat business. She was at the peak of her business career in the 1930s and 1940s. Her contributions to millinery were well-known custom-designed fashion hats for wealthy women, celebrities, socialites, and movie stars. Her hats cost about ten times the average cost of a lady's hat. Her main hat business was in New York City with branches in Paris. Later in her career she expanded her fashion line to include dresses, perfume, and jewelry.

A hat is an expression of a woman’s soul. It is something that she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, smart, and sure of herself.
A woman's hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: See this is what I am like-or this is what I would like to be.
[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse. — © Lilly Dache
[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.
Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.
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