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New-Way Course in Millinery and Hat Design -- A Complete Study in Making Vintage 1920s Hats
by School of Modern Dress

{softcover, 296 pages, 6.69x9.61, 20011, ISBN: 1936049635)

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Originally published in 1922, this book contains a four part millinery course intended to teach you the basics of millinery stitches through to the completion of hats. The four part course is broken down into lessons including:

- types of millinery shapes
- millinery materials
- stitches used in hat making
- use of wire in millinery
- hat trimmings
- buckram frames
- making paper patterns for buckram crowns
- flange work
- planning a hat
- hat linings
- making and draping the crown of the hat
- brim of the hat
- making your own trimmings
- design in millinery
- color in design
- making hats for children
- mourning hats

In addition to the lessons, illustrations and detailed text cover many interesting millinery techniques and topics including:

- choosing a hat that suits your face and hairstyle
- wearing the right hat at the right time
- wedding veil history and acceptable design for the era
- trimming with feathers
- renovation techniques for cleaning feathers, silks, satins, 
  lace, velvet, straw and flowers
- copying hats
- mourning hats
- transparent hats

Intended to be a "cover everything" millinery course, this book is thorough and detailed for those interested in millinery techniques, construction and vintage hat design. Step by step instructions and over 150 illustrations guide you through the process of creating hats from those who wore them and taught students how to design them -- millinery teachers of the 1920s.