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