Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1912 — Rats Will Disappear— Hats Will be Smaller. [ARTICLE]

Rats Will Disappear— Hats Will be Smaller.

Along with the banishment of the tube and hobble 'skirt comes the announcement that fall and winter hats for the fair sex will be very much smaller.Jn appearance they hark back to the joyous days when men had the Courage to saunter forth in the little pancake lids, now emulated in old tintypes and on the vaudeville stage. The powers that be in Paris, who say what shall be worn, have disapproved of the extremely wide hats recently affected in this country. Milliners returning from the other side say the styles constitute a revolution. The idea of the designers is to make the head appear as small as possible, and this means not a wisp of false hair, hay, alfalfaj rag carpet, cotton waste or„, any other auxiliary can be worn. The women blessed with abundant hair will have to brush it down tightly if she is to be within shouting distance of the styles. The turbans are the most interesting. They are rather shy on material, but what they lack in that respect they make up in “style;” Designed to fit down over the ears the head is compressed, as it were, into the smallest possible space. The hair, as a consequence, is dressed very flat in the back and on top and is pulled out on the sides and low in the front, simulating a fringe on the forehead.