NEW HATS FOR OLD.
SOME DYEING AND CLEANING. HINTS. Light hats, such as Panama or Tuscan straw, that have become sunburnt and yellow can quite easily be bleached. The crown of the hat should be stuffed with paper, or a basin of the same shape would be better still. For the bleaching, oxalic acid is used, a teaspoonful being dissolved in half a pint of boiling water. The hat is brushed well with this, care being taken to go into all the crevices of the straw. The acid is then sponged off and the hat is hung in a windy place to dry. It is better not to make the straw too wet. Two-Colour Hats. Hat dying is very successful, but whybo content with one colour? A very pretty effect can be obt.-i.incd by using dabs of two colours put on side by side irregularly all over the straw. Green and purple look well together, and so do orange and brown. If done in this way no one will ever know that the hat is dyed unless you are so proud of it that vou tell them.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 24
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