Children's Hats - A Milliner's Guide to Making Hats for Young People

By Anon Anon

This antique text contains a detailed and comprehensive guide to making hats for children and young people. Making hats for children can be both rewarding and cost-effective, with children's hats often being expensive but easily manufactured out of offcuts and scrap material. This text is perfect for the beginner, containing a wealth of easily accessible instructions coupled with detailed illustrations and examples that make the directions contained herein easy to digest and follow. This is the perfect book for those with an interest in children's millinery or the fashion contemporary with the original publication of this book, and it makes for a great addition to any collection of hatmaking literature. We are proud to republish this antique book here with a new introduction to the topic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Aug 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473355996

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CHILDREN’S MILLINERY

AGNES B. LAIRD

EVEN in these days of hatless babies there are many people who, for various reasons, prefer to have their children’s heads covered; and if I encourage a few of my readers to try their hand at children’s millinery and to turn out little bonnets and hats with the measure of success which is possible, even for amateurs, my object will have been achieved in writing this article on a branch of millinery which many milliners never touch upon but which is yet most fascinating and interesting.

It is quite distinct from adult millinery and closely allied to needlework. A good needleworker does not necessarily mean a good milliner. There is so much more in millinery than just being able to sew. One must bave a flair, and that is why so many people fail in making hats and are disappointed with the result. They have not got the art of suiting the individual, which is the keynote of adult millinery.

With children’s millinery, it is quite different. A good needle-worker invariably obtains good results, provided of course she has daintiness of touch and some knowledge of shape and