Actress/hatmaker Bridget Armstrong has adored hats from her years in theatre, film and television. When she was filming the TV film "A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield", playing the charismatic New Zealand writer, she wore the Bloomsbury style hat worn by the legendary Virginia Woolf and that became the inspiration for the basic shape and style of the Bridget Armstrong Hat.

Returning from her native New Zealand in 1994, after a spell of ten years in New Zealand theatre, film and television, her flattering and original hats became her life and creative survival and she opened her Wimbledon salon/workshop in 2000.

So come The Wedding, The Garden Party, The Holiday, and especially Royal Ascot, the Hatwearers of SW London and far beyond are happy to have an original hat made to match their outfit, in the fabric and colour of their choice.