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MAKE YOUR OWN HATS

BY
GENE ALLEN MARTIN

DIRECTOR OF DOMESTIC ARTS DEPARTMENT OF
THE MINNEAPOLIS Y.W.C.A.; DESIGNER, DEMONSTRATOR
AND INSTRUCTOR IN MILLINERY

ILLUSTRATED BY
E. E. MARTIN

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

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COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GENE ALLEN MARTIN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

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FOREWORD

Hat-making is an art which may be acquired by any one possessingpatience and ordinary ability. To make a hat for the trade is not asdifficult as to make one for an individual; neither is it so high aphase of art.

Many rules are given for crown-height, brim-width, and color, as beingsuited to different types of faces, but they are so often misleadingthat it seems best to consider only a few, since the becomingness of ahat almost invariably depends upon minor characteristics of theindividual for which there are no rules.

A girl or woman with auburn hair may wear grays—gray-green, creamcolor, salmon pink; a touch of henna with gold or orange; mulberry ifthe eyes are dark.

The woman with dark hair and blue or dark eyes may wear any color if theskin is clear.

One having dark hair and eyes and a sallow skin may find golden brown, apale yellow or cream color becoming—possibly a mulberry if just the[vi]right depth. A hat with slightly drooping brim faced with some shade ofrose will add color to the cheeks. No reds should be worn unless theskin is clear. No shade of purple or heliotrope should be worn by anyone having blue eyes—it seems to make the blue paler.

Any one having auburn hair, blue eyes, and a clear skin may wear browns,grays, greens, tan, blue, and black. Black should not be worn next theface unless the skin is brilliant. It is, however, very becoming toblondes, and to women whose hair has become quite white.

A black hat is almost a necessity in every woman's wardrobe, and it mayalways be made becoming by using a facing of some color which isespecially becoming to the wearer—black and white is always a smartcombination, but very difficult to handle.

In regard to lines—it is known that a hat with a drooping brim takesfrom the height of the wearer and should never be worn by any one havinground shoulders or a short neck. A hat turned up at the back would bemuch better. A narrow brim and high crown add height to the wearer. A[vii]woman with a short, turned-up nose should avoid a hat turned up toosharply from the face. Short people should avoid very wide brims. Forthe possessor of a very full, round face the high crown and narrow brim,or a brim which turns up sharply against the crown on one side, or all