Home millinery course; a thorough, practical and complete series of lessons by National Millinery Company

Author:National Millinery Company
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Millinery
Publisher: [Cleveland, O.] National Millinery Company
Published: 1909-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Preparing and Selecting the Trimming

Were it possible to lay down certain rules governing the selection of trimming to be worn by people of various ages and styles, it would be well worth the effort as there is probably no one thing so frequently violated as good taste along this line. This being impossible, the next best plan is for each individual to become familiar with the material best suited to her age and style and thus lay down her own rules to be carefully and faithfully followed.

It is always essential before selecting the trimming, as well as the hat, to study carefully the current styles, as millinery goods are ever changing and judgment demands that the styles be observed and followed as much as practical. There are times, however, when it is an unwise thing to attempt to follow what is erroneously termed good style, as some seasons are given up almost entirely to fads, which to follow requires an endless expenditure of money. It is by far wiser to put the same amount of money into a good piece of velvet, ribbon or plume than to attempt to follow Dame Fashion in her extravagant race after fads. One should always bear in mind that the neatest dresser is the one who makes it a rule to scrupulously avoid all fads and trashy articles, saving the equivalent to invest in the best of materials when buying.

Plumes and Feathers.

Feathers being among the expensive articles in the millinery line, it is well to know how to tell a good plume from an inferior one. A plume that will give good returns for the money has a heavy, even top with a long wide fiber of even length. The best of these are taken from the male bird and are arranged into what is known as the '"French topped plume." The fibers should be of equal thickness the entire length and the plume be well stayed with the wire at the base. The cjuill on the under side runs the entire length rather than being in short pieces.

For those who may not know, it is well to state that there is no plume that comes without two or more quills being sewed together, as it is thus in single quills, they are plucked from the bird, the difference being in the length of these quills and in the number necessary to get the required weight, the cheaper ones being known as the pieced feather, due to the number of short pieces recjuired to give to them sufficient weight. It is for this reason one is often told that all plumes come pieced, and this is, as you see, in a measure true, but this does not necessarily mean

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