The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-09
MRS. STILLMAN
To SELL HATS,
$50 Up
She Finds Designer and An
nounces Exhibition of
Bonnets Soon.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-"Fin Pot
ter Stillman, Inc.
That Is the name that Mrs. Anne
Urquhart Stillman, the erstwhile
Fiji Potter, said yesterday she would
start business under. Each hat will
bear her name and be $25 and up.
to the trade, for that is the mini
mum at which the wife of James A.
Stillman figures she can manufac-
ture an absolutely first-class hat.
Mrs. Stillman already has picked
her designer, not yet under contract,
and hopes to exhibit in the next
few weeks. She sat back yesterday
and talked of the new world" her
business venture of wholesale mill
liner which now absorbs her.
Will Miss Spring Trade.
I'm not quite IN time for the
earliest spring hats" she said, but
I'll be able to show the black hats,
the blue hats and all the summer
hats. I've already had an offer
from one big place, but I haven't
hat and / haven't ROOM"
Mrs. Stillman then explained that
her first exhibition would take
place in the next few weeks at the
dressmaking rooms of Mary Laird,
Inc, 10 West Thirty-eighth street.
who will show dresses to go with
the hats. Later, Mrs. Laird will ex-
hibit her dresses at Fiji Sti1lman's,
Inc, when Mrs Stillman will re.
ciprocate by harmonlzing her hats
to the dresses.
Although Mrs. Stil1nan can not
even guess at the number of per-
sons her designer will want for the
business, these will have to punch
mental time clock in the morning.
Mrs. Stillman indicated firmly yes
terday that she intended to be on
the job at all times, and said she
was surprised that people seemed to
think in the fashionable world legs
did not exist before 10 or IL o'clock
Doesn't Float on Gold Plate.
Anyway" she said, I'm not at
all what you people think I am,
floating around on gold plate"
The business of getting a designer,
Mrs. Stillman said, had been her
first step. She spent time looking
these up, "but now" she said, I've
found one l like. She hasn't signed
a contract yet, so l can't give her
name"
"a big place to start? Well, you
know, l must learn the technique. 1
don't want to fall with a smash.
must creep and then stand up. That's
practical, isn't it? / want a good
business with good sound name.
Fiji Potter Stillman, Inc, is not the
express name 1 should have chosen,
but my advisers tell me it's known
from coast to coast. / haven't in-
corporated yet, but I will in the next
few days.
Not Making Cheap Hats.
Regarding that 1925 up, UP and
UP" Mrs. Stillman remarked:
I'm not making 100000 cheap
hats, but the beautiful really arts
tic hat. Each person has his or
her own individuality. That's what
mine will succeed on. Hats 1 make
can only be got from me-
Mrs. Stillman is going abroad with
her designer in the spring. She was
hatless yesterday. Below her bob
bed hair was a string of gorgeous
pearls and below this a Paris blouse
Of fuchia and gold. She wore a
black dress and short stockings. AS
she prepared to leave her home,
Fifth avenue and SeVenty-second
street. she remarked:
Il shall love to make hats for the
American women, as l regard them
as the prettiest and best dressed in
the world"