Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — FRIVOLITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRIVOLITIES

Grims of ODD SHAPE ' 0 PECULIARITY OF HATS FOR MIDSUMMER WEAR. Unfamiliar Lines Mark the Latest Millinery Designs—Elaboration in Trimmings Is Also a Marked Feature of the Season. There are many large hats displayed for midsummer wear, and nearly all of them show some peculiarity of brim, either in upward lift or indentations or the manner of trimming. There are sudden widenings or narrowings also, giving the hat unfamiliar lines about the brim edge, but these shapes are nevertheless well balanced and becoming about the face. As a rule srowns are medium in size and domeshaped, and there is departure from this so infrequently that the brim may be said to be the essential feature on which to center attention. Besides the qddity of brims, it is to be noted that) the newest hats show much elaboration in trimmings. Bands of net or chiffon, frills of lace, maline folds, many flowers, velvet ribbons and plumage, are all cleverly managed, so that the composition of a single hat includes three or perhaps four materials. The art of the trimmer is more evident in using— thhuariety than in simply placing a tuft of plumes or a wreath, of flowers on a graceful shape. Both simply trimmed and elaborately made hats are attractive, but the latter are more interesting. As an instance of this successful use of several materials on one hat, one of the rolling brimmed French sailors In white chip may be cited. This

shape, with small dome-shaped crown, was bound about the edge with black Brussels het which extends in a fold an inch and a half beyond the brim edge. Just ihside this fold are two rows of val, lace about two inches wide. This is laid in narrow side plaits, and one row overlaps the other slightly. This inside row is finished with a close set wreath of tiny June roses. A standing spray of roses, ora bow of velvet ribbon could be used with this brim treatment for the addition of height with good effect, although the model had no trimming on the crown.