Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — ADVICE FOR THE HOME MILLINER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADVICE FOR THE HOME MILLINER

FOR the mother or big sister who Is anxious to do millinery work at home there are models which may be attempted with every chance of success, especially in hats for children’s Wear. Shapes, as a rule, are becoming to start with. If the home milliner will be satisfied to copy the work of professional milliners at first, and not attempt original designing until copying has trained her taste, she will be able to make certain kinds of hats that will pass muster anywhere? - . Here are three pretty hemp hats. They are the work of special designers of headwqar for children. They look quite simple but they are the result of trained knowledge and expert skill in the making of this particular kind of millinery. Any one can copy them successfully, but everyone cannot originate hats equally good. >, Select a shape that is becoming to the little miss whose needs are to be filled, and be careful to get a hat that fits. This is half the battle. Choose an attractive color—they are rather gay this season—or select a white or natural straw color. Any one of the methods of trimming shown here will add to the beeomingness of. the hat, since none of them interfere with its outlines. The simplest trim consists of a band of soft wide ribbon—Alice blue, perhaps. At the front a fiat bow of four loops is centered with a buckle made of tiny June roses. Sew this trimming to place and avoid that fault which amateurs most often fall into—don’t sew it too flat to the shape. A childish and fascinating method of trimming is shown in the hat adorned with a wreath of targe ox-eyed daisies and three upstanding bows of messaline ribbon. These bows consist of two loops' each, one loop about half as long as the other. The heart of the bow is finished with two small puffs .of ribbon. Tack the bows to the shape with the taller loops standing up and. the shorter extending to the upturn of the brim. It will not be necessary to wire the loops because they are supported by the crown to which they are fastened with a few stitches. The most original of the three designs is shewn with a plaited ribbon and fancy cord used to form the band and “stick up.’’ A silk cord is braided in three strands and applied to the accordion-plaited ribbon which surrounds the crown. A fan or wing at the side is made by sewing three rows of the plaited ribbon to a small piece of rice net cut into the proper shape and wlre< l at the edge. The plaited cord is sewed to this, following its outlines- When this is done a short length of cord is left free to form the knot which finishes the trimming.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.