Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — Early Fall Hats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Early Fall Hats

THREE hats, of distinctly different types, are pictured here, each one Of them an example of excellent millinery. The alpine shape, with folded overcrown is a soft braid in yellow with facing of black velvet and wide collar of the same. The tall pointed “mother goose” crown is flattened and brought down to the brim at the left, where a bunch of velvet cherries in the natural colors, with twigs and foliage, provide a touch of brilliant color. It is a dashing hat, with a hint of the “boyish” in it, especially suited to some girls. The. soft cap made of rather heavy messaline, and trimmed with a big wire bow of the silk, looks niuch like a bathing cap. It is a beautiful piece of work and illustrates the season's trend toward simple effects, arrived at through intricate and painstaking work on the part of the milliner. It is very beautiful made of soft, changeable taffetas in the rich color combination which appear in this fabric. It needs no additional trimming, although many models shown in this type with lace falling about the faoe, and tiny flowers or bunches of small velvet fruit, in one or two points

above the frill. It is suited to matrons as well as maids and resembles the corday (of pleasant memory) except that It is smaller —a veritable cap. The bonnet-like shape of velvet* faced with silk, has a soft crown shaped over a crinoline foundation. Here again one sees the fashion of using the same materials for the body of the hat and the trimming. The wings are of velvet like the hat, lined with silk like its facing. They are carefully made and finished with fine silk braid. There is nothing startlingly new in this shape but it will be all the more popular for that. For of many similar shapes, it is about the most artistic and becoming. The lift or upturn at the back of the brim is a characteristic of the season which is being featured by many designers here and especially by one of the foremost in Paris. This shape Is not becoming, as a rule to older women. It looks best on round faces; and then must possess a truth of girlishness. The same brimlines, with a different crown and trimming, however, have ‘ proven their worth for older wearers.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.