CHAPTER
V.
COPYING FRENCH HATS WITHOUT
MEASUREMENTS In the former lessons we have been considering the tedious but necessary rudiments of wire frame-making. Hoivever, we have been leading up to the important use of wire frame-making in the other millinery.
more interesting aspects
From
of the art of
this point the chapters should
be followed by the milliner with intense interest, since it gives her what has never before appeared in print the actual methods in use in the big
—
Fifth Avenue workrooms today.
month during the busy season the large EACH wholesale houses New York in
City import
number of French hats. Some retailers are able to buy the original models, but the vast number must use copies made up in their worka great
rooms. This source of vital style is only open to the milliner who can copy and design in wire. The wholesale houses send out notices to the retail shops that on a specified date they will show new French models, their object being both to sell materials to reproduce these French hats, or to sell the original models. On these dates, copyists are sent out from all the best retail shops to make 38