Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1911 — Feaiher Taimmings [ARTICLE]

Feaiher Taimmings

FEATHER TRIMMING FOR the faU has to cater to the fad for height, which seems to be the distinguishing feature of the fall hat. Innumerable fancy high-soaring plumes are offered, and there are Ail kinds of made ornaments, cockades, quills, etc., which are Incline with the liking for extreme height. Coque plumes are 'back In fashion and some immensely tall plumes, small In circumference, are made up in these feathers and used for trimming. The most extreme hat seen, most extreme in point of height, had tJBSt trimming. It was, if recollection dot* not err, a Talbot model end had a_ high pointed crown and narrow brim drooping front and back, but rolling slightly at the sides. Both crown and brim were of a Very dark bronze green velvet, but tile brim was faded with white beaver. ; A flat banding of the natural Iridescent green coque feathers encircled the crown almost to its pointed top, and a brushlike plume of the coque feathers rose at the left'front to almost twelve laches above the high crown. Extreme as it was, it had an undeniable charm, and woman aftpi woman 'tried it on hopefully, only tc lay it aside regretfully. There are masses of shaded fluffy feathers on some of the prettiest hats ostrich plumes, vulture plumes, any and all of the nondescript fancy plumage evolved by the manufacturers of millinery trimmings. These,often cover the entire crown and rise high at the side or back, and a populai rrlmming on a narrow brim shape with moderately high crown, a mass qt soft plumes covering the crown and rising above it and a tuft of similar plumes rising to the highest point of the trimming scheme at the back, and curving backward in a soft shower. An uncommonly distinguished hat of this type was in the white bengaline faced with a deep mulberry velvet and covered with soft plumes shading from deepest mulberry up through all the fruity red tones, to berry pinks softened by a grayish bloom. The Georgian poke of marrow brim drooping at the sides and rounding up a little at front and back is often allied with very high crowns in draped silk or velvet, or in silk, velet, beaver or felt, trimmed high. Bandeaux of feathery egrets, ospreys or other fluffy plumage may entirety encircle the crown, giving great height or pointed wings may be used in a similar way, or finely plaited tulle cut in winglike points and closely pressed may be placed around the crown of a velvet hat with admirable effect.