New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05
Your Daughters Vocation
Shall 1t be Millinery!

customers, besides capital to the amount OF
at least 5000 which she is willing to In.
vest, she had best not start shop OF her
own in a large city. as she would probably
make a failure OF 1t. But there are many
positions in department and millinery stores
which, after she has spent year as an ap.
prentice In q famous shop, or longer time
in less famous shop, are open to her.
Twenty-Five or thirty dollars a month 10
considered good wage in the big cities
for a successful designer when she nrst
comes from her apprenticeship. Her work
consists of both designing and making hata
but, OF course, at first she Is under the
supervision and direction OF a more expert.
enced milliner. From a position Of this
sort she may rise to one paying from 80 to
800 week--the latter figure, needless to
say, is exceptionally high Her work Will
still be designing hats, but OF the nigh
priced variety, and she will also supervise
and direct the newcomers
If your daughter lives at distance from
the large city where she Is receiving her
training 1t may he her intention to returA
home after her apprenticeship 10 over ana
start a millinery shop in her own town.
This is very sensible resolve and one
worth sticking to in spite Of the attractions
that the city may exert on her while she
is in training, for In the smaller town com.
petition is not SO great and the expense Of
starting in business Is not 80 mucn OF
burden as in the big cities.
Moreover. the largest incomes made -
women in millinery are not made by en-
Moved designers high their salaries
In
oun shop who makes the comfortable fort
une The girl who leaves her home town.
to go TO one of the big cities 10 study, who
returns. after she has mastered the niil'
linery art as an apprentice, full OF en-
thusiasm and ideas, to start millinery
shop that is little different from the NIL"
lnery shop already there, needs only per.
severance TO gain a little pile OF money
that will bring independence, comfort ana
a neat bank account
4 good deal more than the aoliity 70
design and make hats is needed however,
TO make successful milliner.
"Three-fourths OF the success that MIL
liner wins is due to her buying ability,
said a man milliner who has been In tho
husiness twenty years and has mad ample
Of women millners. You can make hats
that please your buyers-that is no easy
task even for a trained milliner-and you
can sell them, too-which requires GOOD
salesmsnship-and still you may never
make penny. II all depends on how you
buy your stock; and TO do this wisely
woman has 10 have good share OF busl'
ness sense as we'll as artistic ability.
A good deal of this essential business
sense" the millinery apprentice who aspires
ultimately to have her own shop can PICK
up during her apprenticeship, when she
rms orr ands to the wholesale miIliners 10
buy supplies for her employer, and IN many
other wsys. Besides that most women
love a bargain-they like 10 buy at ths
closes, fgures-vhich Is just another way
of saving that IN most women there Is
dormant liking for business. And this DOR
mant liking, properly cultivated snonld
stand the young woman who wants TO have
q millinery shop Of her own In good stead
Copyright, 1912 b. Mary Marshail)