Carolina Lindström

Carolina Lindström, née Lundström (1812–1892), was a Swedish milliner.

Her mother was a business woman and she herself saved her money until she could afford to become an apprentice to the top hat maker in Stockholm, a French woman.

She had a large web of contacts; at the death of the king in 1844, she was alerted by the footmen at the royal palace so that she was able to acquire all the black mourning ribbons from the other milliners in the capital before the death had been publicly known.

In 1847, she married a man who squandered all her money on gambling, but she quickly recouped it.

In 1892, she left her business to one of her assistants and bought a place for herself at the Stockholm retirement home for merchant widows; however, she died a couple of months after her retirement.