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