Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-23

used FOR millinery purposes. Inc PaTlS
and London names sound well in the
trade. but. as a matter OF fact. there is
no line OF goods produced In Europe
which cannot be secured in America
equal In quality and style. This is true
even of the beautiful fancy ribbon sup
posed to be possible only in French fac
tories. Importations are still numerous
because a large number OF American
women prefer them. but the millinery
jobbers know that they are not in any
way superior to home products. An
American store recently opened in Lon
don has a millinery department devoted
exclusively to American hats. The fact
that these are being SO well received in
London indicates that the time is not far
distant when hats from America will be
quite as popular abroad as are foreign
hats with US at the present.
The very long hatpin also Is going into
disfavor, and the Milliners' Jobbers' AS
ISOLATION, an
Long Hatpin Is ticipatins the
Becoming Unpopular. Ing this sV sub.
ject, which are now before several state
legislatures. is recommending that the
trade discourage the sale of the long pin.
To prevent loss from fine long pins al
arranged to shorten them for their Gus
toners.
There is no trade which calls into play
the vagaries of Temperament so much
as that of the milliner A woman will
like hat one day and abhor 1t the
next. for no apparent reason. and the
milliner who fails to give her satisfac-
ton is likely to lose her trade. Women
sometimes will resort to trickery to graf
ify their vanity in hats, as the milliners
find to their cost. Having a hat sent
home on approval. in order that the Gus
toner may wear II at q special function
and then return it on the plea that it did
not suit. Is a trick frequently played on
every flrst-class milliner. If the customer
is a good one such incidents are frequent
~ winked at. though they are most det-
rimental to the trade.
Securing hat from a first-class shop
to be copied by a cheap mliiner ia very
much worse. A
Had Hat Copied prominent So
by Cheap Milliner. . 800, woman M, IN
recently ordered q hat sent home to her
from the most exclusive shop. She kept
it three days. and returned 1t on the plea
tndl ncT HuSDdHu not ike II. Inc
next day a salesman showing the hat
to another customer found a note pinned
to the lining addressed to the woman
who returned the hat. saying: ST had no
chiffon this shade, so had to use moline
for facing, but in everything else 1 copied
the hat exactly for you" The proprietor
was justly indignant. Orders were issued
that that woman could have no further
hats sent on approval. for since his ex-
elusive model had been copied its chief
value was gone.
The making OF hats is a much less
laborious process now. since new shapes
are furnished each year. Local milliners
are no longer expected to soak and
sponge old hats and reblock them on
new forms, pressing them with hot irons
and sometimes stinening them with
starch. glue and other substances. No
such messy work is a part OF modern
millinery. II a hat Is to be made from
old material. 1t is accompanied by sewing
the material over a new wire frame, a
task that Is both simple and pleasant,
compared with the old reblocking Com
paratively few hats are made over now,
and the number Is decreasing each rear.