chapeaus de fleurs:  While straw and felt supplies shrank, Americans milliners discovered that

chapeaus de fleurs: 

While straw and felt supplies shrank, Americans milliners discovered that materials normally used just to trim hats were plentiful. Ribbon, netting, horsehair, feathers, millinery flowers, all usually used only to decorate hats, were worked into total millinery extravaganzas. Hats made entirely of flowers or poufs of netting abounded.

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