THE VISITING MILLINER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 322, 8 October 1908, Page 3

THE VISITING MILLINER.

There are Wellington girls who might well take advantago of the hint in the following paragraph—girls with deft fingers and a natural taste for millinery:— The visiting lady milliner is almost as established an occupation for girls with deft fingers as the visiting lady dressmaker (writes " Emile" in the "Australasian"). By girls without much capital canvassing is done only in tho suburbs till a connection is worked up, but it is in the country districts that the visiting milliner finds the greatest scope for her work. Last summer's hats are brought out, and remodelled 011 fashionable lines, schoolhats for the children are renovated and new shapes made, and tho visiting milliner may do four or five a day for one family, the lowest charge being 2s. per hat. Tho reticule contains a coil of wire, straws of all colours, ribbons, flowers, and laccs, besides cotton and silk. AVith the moderate capital of £1 one girl told me she bought enough trimmings for six or seven hats, and as all material supplied ■ by the milliner is charged for, besides tho time occupied in making or remodelling the mat, tho business pays from the start, while tho employer gets "a hat to suit her, trimmed to her taste, without going outside her own home. This idea is really so brilliant that one is surprised that it has not been exploited long 320.