The hand-book of millinery. To which is appended an essay on corset making by Mary J. Howell

Author:Mary J. Howell
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 1847-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

been already made. You may now attach the crown to the front, and, cut out a large round of whatever material your hat may be composed. The centre of this round should now be placed immediately over the small flat piece introduced at the top part of the foundation, which will allow you to dispose of it into distant and regular folds, so as to fit the lower part of the foundation.

It is not unusual for the crown of dress-hats to be arranged on one side; and, in such cases^ you have merely to cut your strip of leno or stiff muslin somewhat deeper on one side than the other, and to slope it off gradually to the opposite side,—plaiting it up as before shown, and completing it by the small flat round, which we suggest should not exceed the size of a crown-piece.

Dress hats should at all times be made as small as possible in the head,—^provided, of course, the size does not interfere with the comfort of the wearer. The smaller the hat is in this particular, the more stylish and elegant will it appear.

When dress-hats are in vogue, fashion occa* sionally permits them to have merely a simple bonnet-crown,—for the execution of which we refer, as before, to the Lesson giving a plan for

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makiiig bonnet-shapes; merelj presuming that in this case the orown is to be of Paris foonda-tion-net.

Again,—^frames made of silk-wire are very frequently used for the purpose of making the model dress-hats. Nothing can be more simple than the construction of these frames, which are expressly contrived for the purpose of support* ing very light materials, — such as plain or goffered lace, blond, gauze, lisse, &c. &a

This style is particularly suited to young ladies, from the extreme simplicity uid lightness of its appearance.

In order to form such frames, it is requisite to have a pattern of the hat-front cut out in stiff paper; around the outer edge of this you proceed to tack an exceedingly narrow chip, which chip must be previously prepared by having a round silk-wire sewn through its centre, and a sufficient surplus of length to admit of its wrapping over an inch or two at the back,—where it must be both begun and finished. The head part of the paper-pattern must have the chip and wire tacked to the edge in like manner. This accomplished, you have merely to cut off separate pieces of the silk-wire, about six inches in length, and aAer bending

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them down at each edde so as to give liiein the exact length requisite to occupy the space between the chips, you sew them firmly upon the chip and wire before fixed to the edge of the paper-pattern,—and then again at the head part. These wires must be sewn several inches apart^ at the outer edge; and those sewn to the upper part of the hat-frame somewhat nearer,—a graduation of distance which will at once become perceptible to our reader's, when is taken into consideration the

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