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A brent hat with pointed, crown of pestock blue straw trimmed
with flat wings is shotinai -abure at the teff,
A poter shape of allophane viuered with small pastilles in bright
colours, uture ut right.
Below at right, a hat of black Milan tieú around with ribbon tin?
with a fruiling cine of turite pink ross,
WEDNESDAY. MAY 4 192.
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FASHION NOTES.
A new fashion for evening wear
pert handling to attach-butorna-have appeared giving every in- ments like glorified hatpins that dication of general popularity need only to be stuck into the hat among woll dressed women later at an effective angle. These are on. Etamine is a new material is a tiny tucker of net or tulle, in often made of jet-though there with the milliners that comes in a contrasting shade, placed are less expensive ones of wood from France. Made of cotton or round, just inside, the top of the with ebony finish-and they are linen it suggests grass cloth in bodice. With a black dress this set with rhinestones.
the openness and lightness of its
We are accustomed to titled. members of society who run their own millinery establishments, but now a well-known lady of charm ro-and distinction seeks to beguile with personality perfumes.
Possibly the ease with which weave and it lends itself to all would be white, with a brown these devices can be adjusted will sorts of interesting trimming on, orange or soft yellow. bring to them the contempt bred devices. Sometimes narrow rib- of familiarity, but for the time bon is woven in and out between being they are by no means com- the open meshes of its treads. monplace and they are offective,
HATS OF LITTLE FLOWERS. BLACK HATS ACCEPTABLE. From every indication black putation in Paris of being very us
American women have a will be in high favour. Although partial to the all-flower hate. The idea of having your individ- grey is still chosen by some of This summer the French women uality expressed in your scont the good milliners the excessive seem to be outdoing them in their has a distinct charm, for you popularity of that tone wi work fondness for this type of headgear. patent it, so to speak. There is a against it in the eyes of many The toque, covered all over with wide range to choose between, bright-hued flowers, appeara and the most fastidious person Black takes care of itself, it frequently, and one or two of the should have no difficulty in mak- nover seems to suffer social taboo milliners are turning out small ing a choice. This is made ex- from over-popularity.
poke shapes covered with amall gay flowers.
over the clusively for you, and thus you crown and the top of the brim possess your very own perfune with your own name upon the
women.
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Most women have experienced
String colour, which has many of the advantages of grey, is coming to the fore in the new
There is a tendency to lavish bottle. hate with no chance of being trimming on the under brim of the over-popular for many a month.
hat and in line with this is the Many more women are aware simply with silk on the crown collete evening frocks that no hat flaring off the face, covered the difficulty of managing with of the fact that the mandarin and upper brin, with a gorgeouR
even the most moderate of de- shades are in high favour with
the French hat makers than have display of flowers beneath. Some- annoying edges of the camisole a very definite idea as to what times a large, broad-brimmed hat shail show. An excellent ides mandarin really is. The fact is
will display a simple scart ar- when a black dress is to be worn that mandarin--is usod rather rangement of ribbon about the is to have the lingerie trimmed vaguely to cover a whole range caught boneath the brin, some-Thon, if a little of it manages to crown with a festoon of roses with fine black Chantilly lace. of shades. It is like capucine of a 86ason or so ago. There are the shoulders. mandarin shades that
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decided rose with others going
all the way down the colour scale to a rust shade.
LACE FOR AFTERNOON.
times with roses hanging down to appear, it will not be at all obtrusive. and in many cases will probably look like part of the frock. And now that coloured Lace must not be forgotten. It lace is popular it should be pos- While the blocked straw shape priate for the tea hour hat, and whatever the colour of the dress is considered especially appro-sible to make use of the idea is coming back into its own and there are smart women who prefer to be worn. Flesh coloured net straw is much more evident in the simple black or brown hat of shoulder straps are indispensable. in the new bats than it has been milan or lisera combined with!
since pre-war days there is fine lace in matching hue to any with ends and loops falling down scarcely any abatement of in-thing else that the milliners offer.
terest in fabric hats. Crepe de A very good model shows a milau to the shoulders. chine and Contan crepe, so crown with a brim made of black widely heralded 15 summer lace in fine plaiting held in at the showing no trimming save a frill The simple black or brown hat dress fabrics of serviceability the brim and laid over a silk of lace or a kaot of ribbon is per- and
style, are being used bound wire frame for a for warm weather hats. Simply A rosette of narrow black waxed selected by the woman who can crown. baps the type of hat more often. trimmed spart hats of these silks ribbon is placed at the left side allord to buy expensive hats.
MODES OF THE MOMENT. was not difficult. All that the
crown of hat had to do was to
ADVANTAGE OF THE POKE. teresting things to report is that The advantage of the poke the blocked hat is coming back Moreover this)
The most significant fact to be show no consideration for puffs, delicately arranged coils of hair blocked hat is of straw, pro
make room for the head. It need shape is that it gives room for into its own. noted by the milliners at the pre-curls or easily disheveled coils on at the back of the crown. sent time is that bobbed hair will top of the head. soon be a thing of the past, so far
Whether wê
eminently lisere or milan. For
In favour of the made hat, the
as adult fashions are concerned. A number of the new
Do not imagine that all or even many seasons the so called made The passing of the bobbed hair shown in Paris flare off the hair French or American hate are poke own way-a fact which had its hats predominant number of the hats have had things all their also means the passing of the hair at the back and the reason given shapes or even remotely sugges- advantages as well as its dis- worn to produce a bobbed effect that they accommodate the hair side with this tendency is another wore hats.
for the existence of those hate is tive of the Directoire. Side by advantages, to the woman who The arrangement that seems to elaborately arranged at the back quite different. It shows itself be forcing the old one into the of the head. Another way of broad, floppy brimmed hats made bat produced by sewing straw or background is some version of the payche-a psyche skillfully accommodating the hair is to to be worn with afternoon frocks braid or draping silk or other poised at a rather difficult angle make the crowns much more suggestive of the Second Empire. fabric on s midway between the nape of the roomy and this may be done by
canvas shape, was neck and the crown of the head. way of crown that is large in drooping at the back or the sides, to find the shape you wanted you wear our hats the fact that if you were not able every respect, or only in one, in whether they are mushroom in could get your milliner to re- poke style that bulges toward the shape or flare off the face like an produce the desired shape and Obviously the reason why this back. change in hair arrangement is eo
immense halo, there is no abate-then cover it exactly to suit your important to the milliners is
The French milliners go frankly down well over the hoad, and the
went in their tendency to fit fancy. because, whether they choose to to the old cuts of styles.worn just woman who clings to an old- look at it that way or not, one of before the Empire for thoir ins- fashioned fondness for wearing their chief problems is to make piration. There are a number of hate high on her crown is as out bat that will fit comfortably and an-called tricorn shapes that seem of the picture as she has been for "conveniently the womon who are hat of the day and the poke
to be inspired by the masculine many seasons past. to wear them.
HAT MUST FIT HAIR.
With the bobbed head or the feminine headdross affectód at] bair in bobbed effect their problem that time.
bonnet furnishes motif from a BLOCKED HATS BACK AGAIN ornaments that have been made
HATPIN ORNAMENTS. fashions that will come to the Another feature of the new hat aid of the women who find economy in manufacturing some of their own bats is the numerous, As for the technique of the new for hate this season-not feather hats, perhaps one of the most in-orflower ornaments that need ex-j
A DIRECTOIRE HAT OF SOFT BLACK STRAW WITH PARADISE PLUMES,
A TURBAN OF CORDED SILK
WITH A COCADE OF RIBBON,