ABSTRACT
The business of dressmaking is carried on by two classes - the dressmaker and the milliner. The dressmaker's work is confmed to the making of ladies' dresses, including every kind of outwardly-worn gown or robe. The milliner's work is confmed to making caps, bonnets, scarfs, and all outward attire worn by ladies other than the gown; the bonnets, however, which tax the skill of the milliner, are what are best known as "made bonnets" -such as are constructed of velvet, satin, silk, muslin, or any other textile fabric. Straw bonnet-making is carried on by a distinct class, and in separate establishments. The milliner, however, often trims a straw bonnet, affiXing the ribbons, flowers, or other adornments. When the business is sufficiently large, one or more millinery hands are commonly kept solely to bonnet-making, those best skilled in that art being of course selected; but every efficient milliner so employed is expected to be expert also at cap-making, and at all the other branches of the trade. The milliner is accounted a more skilled labourer than the dressmaker.
