[5]. The average week's work of a maker is about ten hats; that of a finisher, from five to six dozen.

Such is the cost of materials and labour at the present period; it is true that the above scale is drawn from "credit prices;" but let every part of a manufacturing concern be carried on for money only, which is rarely the case, still the deduction from the whole cannot be more than 7½ per cent. All substitutes for the above materials are decidedly condemned; nor can their quantities, as here stated, be lessened, without injury to the remainder. Here then is sufficient evidence that a fine hat must, under the most favourable circumstances, stand the manufacturer in upwards of twenty-one shillings, yet many assume a capability of retailing such an article at less even than the charge of manufacture.


A General List of Lloyd's Fashionable Hats, invented, manufactured, and sold by him, at his Warehouse, 92, Newgate-Street, London.

The John Bull The Bang-up
The Wellington The Jolliffe
The Tandem Clericus
The Tally-Ho The Bon-Ton
The Shallow The Baronet
The Coburg The Four-in-Hand
The Marquis A Bit of Blood
The Eccentric The Baron
The Regent A Noble Lord
The Kent The New Dash
The Cumberland A Paris Beau
The Esquire The Brutus
The Vis-a-Vis The Exquisite
The Petersham The Irresistible
The Tilbury The Pic Nic
The Count The Viscount
The Medium And the Dandy.

CONCLUSION.

If the foregoing treatise to be judged by the letter and not the spirit-have mercy reader.

Rules for measuring a hat.-Take the circumference on the outside, where the band is fixed, in inches. The breadth of brim and depth of crown as wanted.


Entered at Stationer's Hall.