The Washington herald., 1915-02-05
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linery shops, as well as in the work
rooms Of the department stores. where
the beginner gets three or four or five
dollars a week wages. In such a posi-
'tion she may have to spend two or three
years, perhaps, to get as much training
in actual designing as she would in
'no-pay' apprenticeship, and she will
have to perform many tasks, perhaps,
which do not seem to her to bear any
direct relation to the millinery business.
Besides having to run errands. she will
be called upon to trot back and forth
from the workroom to the salesroom and
stockroom, wait on the full-hedged de-
signers, and only occasionally get a les
son in the art of hat trimming.
II you secure a ay-apprenticeshfp you
may feel like resenting these duties. But
even the most disagreeabIe of them-run-
ming errands-is good training. For by
going to the wholesale houses you will
learn valuable lessons in buying that the
no-pay apprentice may never have
chance to learn.
One thing you may be sure Of il you
serve the apprenticeship for a wage, and
that Is that you will have a fair show;
for If you have really any ability as an
original millinery designer, no one will
be more anxious to prove II than your
VI bAAS OAhRlOy lcpECSCHId-
tive.
II you do prove to be a gifted millinery
designer-and surely you will not be
short-sighted enough to start as an ap-
prentice unless you feel confident that
you have the making of a milliner in
you-what will the months or even two
or three years spent in training in a
millinery shop lead to?
Unless you have remarkable ability
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toners, besides at least 5000 capital
which you are willing to invest, you had
best not start shop OF your own In a
large city, as you would probably make
failure Of II. But there are many posi-
tons in department and millinery stores
which, after you have spent a year as
an apprentice in a famous shop. or a
longer time In less famous shop, are
open to you.
Twenty or twenty-five dollars a month
is considered good wage in the big
cities for a successful designer Her
work consists Of both designing and
making hats, but, OF course, at FIRST she
is under the supervision and direction Of
more experienced miIliner From a
position Of this sort she may rise to one
paying from sixty to a hundred dollars
week-the latter figure, needless to
say, is exceptionally high. Her work
will still be designing hats, but of the
high-priced variety, and she will also
supervise and direct the newcomers.
The largest incomes made by woin-
en- In millinery are not made by en-
ployed designers, high as their salaries
may be. 1t Is the woman who runs her
own shop who makes the comfortable
fortune. The girl who leaves her home
town to go to one of the big cities to
study, who returns, after she has mas
tered the millinery art as an apprentice,
full of enthusiasm and ideas, to start a
millinery shop that is a little different
from the millinery shop already there.
needs only perseverance to gain a little
pile of money that will bring indepen-
dence, comfort, and a neat bank account
A good deal more than the ability to
design and make hats Is needed, how
ever, to make a successful milliner.
''Three-fourths of the success that a
milliner wins Is due to her buying abil-
ity," said a man milliner who has been
in the business twenty years and has
had ample opportunity 70 watch the ups
and downs OF women milliners. You
can make hats that please your buyers
that is no easy task even for a trained
milliner-end you can sell them, too
which requires good saiesmanship-and
still you may never make a penny. II
all depends on how you buy your stock;
and to do this wisely a woman has 70
have q good share OF business sense as
well as artistic ability
A good deal of this essential business
sense" the millinery apprentice who as
pires ultimately to have her own shop
can be picked up by her during her ap-
premiership. when she runs errands to
the wholesale miIliners to buy supplies
for her employer. and In many other
ways. Besides that. every woman loves
bargain-she likes to buy at the closest
flgures-which is just another way OF
saying that in every woman there Is 4
dormant liking for business. And this
dormant liking. properly cultivated.
should stand the young woman who