CROYDON CHRONICLES: Trades and professions come and go with the passing years, as fashions ebb and flow. Using the Minster’s archive records, DAVID MORGAN discovers another skill, common in Victorian times and used by a local family firm, but which barely exists today
Ward’s Directory of Croydon for 1884 listed three people who were plumassiers.
There was Mrs Rose at 39 Parson’s Mead and Misses A and E Whybrew in Northcote Road.
A plumassier was a person with very special skills. They worked with feathers, cutting, snipping and colouring them, creating gorgeous feathery hats as well as ensuring that military headwear for officers in their dress uniforms had all the correct plumage.
Both of these 1884 Croydon plumassier businesses were more engaged with the millinery aspects of the job rather than military ones. Continue reading
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