Show Mayfield Has Thriving Bonnet and nd Dress Industry MODELING A DRESS f fD D r f 4 R fr fr f r r a I t y J. J Miss Patricia Ann Rowland granddaughter o of f Mrs Iva Christensen Christensen Chris- Chris poses in a summer bonnet bon bon- net and dress turned out at the Christensen Bonnet Company While doing printing work for the Christensen Bonnet Company of Mayfield we discovered that few jew Sanpete people had ever heard o of f the firm and that most o oj of f those who do know o of f fits its existence greatly underestimate the volume S of work turned led out To give our OUT readers a better idea of this thriving concern we are publishing the ia article and the accompanying pictures The Publishers The Christensen Bonnet Company of Mayfield manufacturers of childrens' childrens bonnets and dresses has been exporting its products for the past eight years In that time the company has grown from froma a few ladies working in the room of a home to its present state with 30 employees on the company payroll These people work in ina a owned company-owned building and turn out about 25 dozen bonnets and 8 dozen dresses daily Mrs I Iva va Christensen s started the Christensen Bonnet Company Company Company Com Com- pany several years ago after being urged by friends and relatives to make bonnets and dresses commercially Up until that time Mrs Christensen had made her present products only as gifts for youngsters After receiving much favorable comment about the gifts she turned to making them commercially about eight years ago Since then the business has grown continually doubling itself in the past year Mrs Christensen is manager of Company affairs and does most of the designing for new patterns The company work shop is now housed in two Topaz houses which are built onto an ola old rock building which has served through the years in m many capacities including ng a n church nd a jail Cutting sewing and as assembling assembling assembling as- as work is done in the former Topaz housing units while the lock rock structure serves as a storehouse and office This plant is air conditioned I for summer use and is oil heated in the winter The company has thirteen electric sewing sowing machines in the sewing room also aLo one hemstitcher in operation Since cutting and much of the finish- finish up work on the bonnets and dresses must be done by hand many of the employees never use the machines but arc are employed to sew the trimmings on the various articles Continued on page 5 MAYFIELD l HAS liAS THRIVING BONNET DRESS INDUSTRY Continued from page 1 The production of bonnets and dresses dress dress- es made for children up to five years of age is a year-round year affair with the yearly payroll being between and The products are arc of or a year-round year variety too Bonnets I an and dresses for every season of the thC I are turned out Materials are arenow arenow arenow year 1 now quite plentiful although some scattered varieties are still hard to obtain in large quantities Most materials materials materials ma ma- especially ribbon were difficult difficult difficult cult to obtain during the war and production was held to small gains during the war years |