That fine poet and Hattic truffle-hunter Trevor Joyce sent me an image of “An ad from 1910, I gather,” adding:
Since you dealt with the chip hat recently, this caught my attention
in a FB group (Dublin in photos/memories past & present), and I’m
stopped short by the cluster of other terms. Putty is presumably just
a light greyish brown, and trimmed just means something hattish, but
the rest?
Alas, I don’t know how to share the image, but the text reads:
MILLINERY
Soft Flexible Chip, Trimmed Velvet. In all
self colours and putty, and new burnt
trimmed, all shades, 5/11MANSFIELD
SISTERS
THE RECOGNISED MILLINERS,
28 Wicklow Street.
Anybody know what that “self colours and putty, and new burnt” stuff means? (Amusingly, if you google “soft flexible chip” you get hits like “Professor George Malliaras, who worked on the soft, flexible chip from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering…”)
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