Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — Child's Plain Hat [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Child's Plain Hat

Here is a very nice Idea for a child’s plain hat—one that would be exceedingly useful for school or morning wear and wonld stand a great deal of knocking about. If you are making the girlie a set of little Unen or cotton dresses for the coming summer, you could not do better than save the cuttings from them, and let her have a hat to match each dress. The cost of them will be practically nothing, and she will be sure to look nice when her hat and dress “go with” one another. It' may be made up in any size, taking, measures from a hat that fits. The Materials; Almost any fairly stout fabric is suitable for this hat — silk, satin, velvet, cloth, linen, casemeat cloth or galatea. Yon will also need a yard of buckram for each hat —while or black, according to the color of the material—and 1% yard of ribbon to make the bow which trims the front if you want to be very economical, you can make the bow from one-half yard of flowered muslin, wiring it all round the edge, so that it stands up smartly, ;; •, The Cutting; Double the material. Cut from a double circle, from 13 to 14 inches across, according to the size of brim you want. Cut out a small triangular-shaped wedge at the back of the brim (see No. 1), bring the cut edges together, seaming them neatly on ther wrong side. Now take one of the child’s old hats, and measure acrpss the place where the crown and brim join, laying your tape inside the hat, just at the point where the lining is stitched in. Take a pair of compasses, set it up exactly in the center of the cut material, and trace-with if: First, one circle according with the measurements of the old hat; second, one circle 1% inch further towards the edge of the material. Now cut a circle of single material measuring 14 to 16 inches across for the crown, and a double piece 2 Inches deep and

shaped as shown In the illustration for the head-band. Cut the brim and head-band again in buckram, making the buckram pieces just a shade smaller than the material ones. Cut out a wedge at the back of the buckram brim, and draw the open edges together by long herring-bone stitches. This will make the brim turn down Into mushroom shape. The Making: .Lay the two parts of the brim together with their right sides touching. Seam them together at the wrong side. Cut away all the material that is enclosed in the smaller circle. Turn the brim to the right side. Slip into It the buckram, and hold all together by a double row of machine stitching round the edge. Now take a pair of sharp scissors, and split up the inner edge of the brim to the line of the second circle, at shown in the illustration No. 1. Bend back the split pieces, so that they stand up, and the brim turns down over the child’s face. Join the double headband over the buckram, so that the stiffening is hidden between folds of material. Pin this upright on the brim, so that its lower edge rests on the line of the second circle, and the split pieces are all Inside the band. Sew the band very firmly to the split pieces, so that they hold It upright Gather the crown round Its edge, and draw it up to fit round the head-band at the place where the band joins the brim. Pull the fulness into pretty folds, and then sew down the very firmly all round, so that, from the outside, the head-band cannot be seen at all. Fold a piece of ribbon round the hat, to hide the join of the crown and brim, and finish it with a large bow at the front. , - - "Line the hat with sarcenet or thin silk. Draw up the lining with a narrow string inside the crown. Sew on & piece of elastic, which passes under the chin and holds that hat in place.