| Have nothing in your house that you do not | | | | in common with sculpture than with clothing. |
| know to be useful, or believe to be | | | | I now understand that the human head can |
| beautiful, so wrote William Morris, noted | | | | simply act as a pedestal and hat materials |
| English designer at the end of the 19th | | | | (felt, straw, fabric) can be employed no |
| Century. | | | | differently than wood or stone or clay with |
| | | | three-dimensional art as the objective. Hats |
| It is with this segment of the business, | | | | not only need not function, they don't even |
| women's dress hats-millinery, that I found my | | | | need to fit. The good milliner - when |
| long held notions about headwear challenged | | | | succeeding at the highest level, like the |
| and expanded. I had always viewed the hat | | | | good sculptor, understands and skillfully |
| essentially as a functional article of | | | | manipulates this medium's materials. The |
| clothing. Don't hats exist to keep one warm, | | | | results can be interesting, entertaining, and |
| dry, or shaded from the sun? That's why they | | | | fun to wear. We can in fact have hats in our |
| should be in our houses, or so I believed. | | | | houses simply because we believe them to be |
| Women's dress hats, however, often have more | | | | beautiful. |