Although the name of the creators appears on the cover of both portfolios, no further information was found due to the lack of specific details about geographic origin, dates, or other identifiable traits. Therefore, no biographical sketch was written.
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Two millinery design portfolios created by G. Stommel and Doris Schnelder, possibly as part of a sewing course in junior college or high school. Portfolios show a comprehensive display of different fashions and styles in headcover making, including manufacturing materials, techniques, and methods.
Purchased from Michael R. Thompson Rare Books in 2022.
Copyright status unknown.
- Lilly Daché on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Dach%C3%A9).
- Caroline Reboux on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Reboux).
- Elsa Schiaparelli on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schiaparelli).
- Bonwit Teller on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonwit_Teller).
- I. Magnin & Company on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Magnin).
- Henri Bendel on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bendel).
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Millinery design portfolio in black paper created by G. Stommel with handwritten annotations regarding types of ribbons, shapes of felts, wires, and straw fibres used in the making of hats; drawings and magazine clippings with different styles of hats and headcovers; and mounted fabric samples showing millinery materials and sample stitches. Portfolio was probably made as a result of a sewing course taken by Stommel, possibly in a junior college or high school.
Portfolio includes information on bonnets, fedoras, highlander hats, sailor hats, tophat hats, pancake hats, tricorns, berets, cartwheel hats, skull-caps, straw disk hats, toques, chechias, Brummell hats, stocking caps, hoods, derby hats, half hats, helmets, turbans, pottery hats, pilgrim's hat, Bretons, sky-scrapper hats, postilion hats, roller hats, gaucho hats, handkerchief hats, and caps.
Portfolio also mentions some millinery designers and stores such as: milliner and fashion merchandiser Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer Caroline Reboux, fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, New York's luxury department store Bonwit Teller, California's high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store I. Magnin & Company, and New York's women's department store Henri Bendel.
Purchased from Michael R. Thompson Rare Books in 2022.
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Millinery design portfolio in brown paper created by Doris Schnelder with handwritten annotations regarding felt shapes, felt finishes, millinery principles, ribbons, wires, straws, straw fibres, straw hat seams, and places of origin of straws; magazine clippings with different styles of hats and headcovers; and mounted fabric samples showing millinery materials, types of braids and bows, and sample stitches. Portfolio was probably made as a result of a sewing course taken by Doris Schnelder, possibly in a junior college or high school.
Portfolio includes information on sailor hats, doll hats, tricornes, pillbox hats, postilion hats, berets, picture hats, toques, fedoras, calotte caps, alpine hats, turbans, half hats, Juliet caps, Scottish tam-o-shanter hats, casques, biggin caps, jockey caps, Dutch hats, cloches, Harlequin hats, mushroom hats, casquettes, blimper brim hats, snood caps, bowler hats, halo hats, bell boy caps, cowboy hats, Robin Hood hats, Eugenie hats, cartwheel hats, profile hats, postilian hats, coolie hats, and puritan hats.
Some pages are very fragile and brittle.
Purchased from Michael R. Thompson Rare Books in 2022.