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 Lynn McMasters shows you how to make three different styles of 1912 straw hats, just in time to go down with the ship in fabulous style!  Janyce Hill has once again consulted her collection of antique magazines to pass on authentic, specific 1912 fashion trends & styles.  Sunny finishes her deciphering of a black velvet Teens evening gown, with the bodice opening and velvet tabard.  Sunny continues her examination and deciphering of a black velvet Teens evening gown, focusing on the bodice and sleeves.  Janyce Hill of the Vintage Pattern Lending Library gives us the fashion forecast for October, November and December 1912.  Sunny continues her examination of a black velvet evening gown with many of the characteristics of Teens high fashion.  Janyce gives us the fashion forecast for summer 1912, including wedding fashions drawn from magazines of that year. Sunny examines a very complicated early Teens black velvet evening gown with many of the characteristics of high fashion in this era.  What books would have influenced fashion choices for a lady of 1912? What dress advice would a "stout" lady have been given?  Last month, Sunny covered how the lower half of the dress was patterned and constructed. This time, she examines the bodice.  Janyce Hill gives us the fashion forecast for April, May and June 1912, drawn from fashion magazines from that year. In our first Teens Double Period Project article, Sunny examines a fashionable striped wool dress from 1909 - 1914 in her collection.  And the Years for this year's Double Period Project competition are........ 1812 and 1912!  Feathers have been used on hats for centuries not just for their intrinsic beauty, but when you add feathers to a hat they retain a flow and bounce that makes them look almost alive. In this article I'm going to cover several things that you can do to turn feathers into hat ornaments: burning, dyeing, stripping, shaping and clipping. These can result in some really eye-popping effects, from multi-coloured plumes to reconstructing the whole wings that Edwardian women so loved!
 My passion for Ostrich plumes started when I saw the opening credits of the 1997 movie Wings of the Dove. Where do such plumes come from? How do milliners fabricate them and can I create such confections? These are all questions I asked myself then, and they led me on a course of study and experimentation. In this article I will share some of what I have learned along the way.
 or My hat looks like it has a dead fish on top because the bow just lies there! How can I fix that? One of the most often used decorative elements on late Victorian and Edwardian hats were bows and ribbon loops. To a non-milliner, trying to recreate some of these fantastic hats may seem a daunting task. Here are some tricks that simplify things.
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