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<div align="center"> <center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td> <img border="0" src="../../../../graphics/Newfrontpage/scissorsNEWsmall.jpg" width="180" height="162"> </td> <td> <img border="0" src="../../../../graphics/Newfrontpage/newname2.jpg" width="686" height="50"> The Costumer's Manifesto is written by Tara Maginnis, and proudly hosted by William Baker. THE MANIFESTO IS MUTATING!  IT IS TURNING INTO A WIKI THAT CAN BECOME THE HIVE MIND OF ALL COSTUMERS, FINALLY LIVING UP TO IT'S SLOGAN: "COSTUMERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!" YOU CAN HELP IN THIS PROCESS BY MOVING PAGES TO THE NEW SITE AT <a href="http://thecostumersmanifesto.com">THECOSTUMERSMANIFESTO.COM</a>, HELPING TO EDIT THE PAGES THAT ARE THERE ALREADY, AND ADDING YOUR OWN ORIGINAL INPUT.  </td> </tr> </center> </table> </div>  </center> PREFACE <img src="../../../20thcent/1920s/lowenhats/figure107aclear.gif" alt="figure107a.gif (2246 bytes)" WIDTH="176" HEIGHT="180"> <table border="1" width="100%" bordercolordark="#999999" bordercolorlight="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td width="30%" valign="top">   <img border="0" src="../../../../store/advertisers/amazon/books4/bsicmillinerystage.jpg" width="111" height="140"> <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/032500336X/thecostumersmani" ADD_DATE="1016966816" LAST_VISIT="1016966844" LAST_MODIFIED="1016966813">Basic Millinery for the Stage</a> <dl> <div align="left"> <dt><img border="0" src="../../../../store/advertisers/amazon/books/thehatbook.gif" width="127" height="140"> <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0937274739/thecostumersmani" ADD_DATE="972127133" LAST_VISIT="972127129" LAST_MODIFIED="972127129">The Hat Book : Creating Hats for Every Occasion</a> </div> <div align="left"> <dt><a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486427463/thecostumersmani" ADD_DATE="1083918079" LAST_VISIT="1083918144" LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1"><img border="0" src="../../../../store/advertisers/amazon/books8/hatsahistory.jpeg" width="127" height="169"> Hats : A History of Fashion in Headwear</a> </div> </dl> </td> <td width="70%" valign="top"> THERE has always been a feeling among women that millinery was something beyond their power of accomplishment, that the construction of hats required a great amount of creative ability and highly specialized training. This belief has been fostered by two factors: first, the pathetic creations that many women have perpetrated when trying to make their own hats; second, the professional milliner's attitude. The latter has always encouraged the idea that great talent and highly specialized training are necessary for the successful making of hats. This has been done for evident trade reasons. Two things, creative talent and special training, are necessary for anyone to become a real designer of hats. But the nonprofessional or home woman need not be a designer. There are not Fifty actual style originators in the United States and France together. Most milliners and trimmers are merely specialized adapters of ideas. Any home girl or woman with average good taste and judgment can very quickly learn to copy or adapt the styles she sees in shop or style magazine to suit her own needs. Knowledge of millinery principles and processes of construction she does need, as does any professional worker. This knowledge is not so deep and difficult of attainment but that any girl of average intelligence can master it. For the student there are these things to remember: no true craftsman is ever satisfied with any work which falls short of perfection; there is no creative work, whether it be music, painting, cooking, or sewing, in which one attains perfection without practice; one learns more from applying principles than from mere perusal of them. Many times instructions which seem difficult at first reading are very simple when followed step by step. The object of this book is to so classify and set forth the practical and technical principles of millinery that a working knowledge of it will be easily within the grasp of the student. --- JANE LOEWEN </td> </tr> </table> Millinery, by Jane Loewen 1925.  Scanning and OCR by Karen Wood, layout by Karen Wood and Tara Maginnis.   <div> The Costumer's Manifesto is proudly hosted by William Baker. </div> <a href="http://www.costumes.org">Home</a>   <a href="../../../../advice/1pages/questions.htm">Questions</a>   <a href="../../../../store/100pages/giftstore.htm">Buy Books and More</a>    <a href="../../../../classes/254pages/teacherbio.htm">About Me</a> This Page is part of <a HREF="http://www.costumes.org">The Costumer's Manifesto</a> by <a href="mailto:tara@costumes.org">Tara Maginnis</a>, Ph.D.  Copyright 1996-2010.   You may print out any of these pages for non-profit educational use such as school papers, teacher handouts, or wall displays.  You may link to any page in my site.  </body> </html>