Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Summer Hats That Enhance Charms of the Little Ones [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Summer Hats That Enhance Charms of the Little Ones

Hats of straw braid, a greater number of silk braid and many of lace, have been made for little misses. They are trimmed with silk, ribbon and flowers. Daisies are always fashionable for children, and are at present in high favor. Other small blossoms and little bouquets of field flowers, such as children love, appear on the majority of hats for little girls. As in millinery for grown people, more elaboration in trimming is evident than in at least three preceding seasons. The vogue of lace frills was sure to find its way into the realm of children’s millinery, hence the hats with side crowns covered by rows of crisp lace frilling and brightened with Bmall sprays of blossoms .peeping out from the frills.

There are wide plaitings of silk fringed at the edges, used to cover wide crowns aIBO, on hats of the more substantial braids. Narrower frills of plaited silk are fashioned with fluffy rosettes and are used with flowers as a part of the trimming of lingerie or silk braid hats. For midsummer nothing is prettier for little girls than the hat of lace or embroidery made on a wide frame and trimmed with ribbon and flowers, and no style is prettier than the hat with soft puffed crown and drooping frills about the face. It reappears each summer* varying a little in size, but remaining the same in general outlines and as a general thing in choice of colors. JULIA BOTTOM LEY.