1952—How to Make Hats
by Ruby Carnahan

Foreword

Ruby Carnahan has a millinery background that started in her childhood. The daughter of a then leading Chicago millinery designer associated for many years with Theo. Ascher and D. B. Fisk and later having her own millinery salon on the site now known as the Lakeview Building, on Michigan Avenue. There Ruby, at an early age, began learning millinery.

Before her marriage she designed for several State Street stores, including Marshall Field & Company, and is now teaching millinery at Wells High School for the Chicago Board of Education.

She has a thorough knowledge of the millinery profession, both old and new methods, and her experience in teaching has enabled her to put into this book a systematized outline of lessons that have had tremendous results with her pupils.

This book contains a fund of knowledge that has taken years to acquire,

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