Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — FORECAST THE WINTER HAT [ARTICLE]

FORECAST THE WINTER HAT

From the Outlook the Designs Are to Be Less Simple Than Those of the Present. As the days get shorter, they get more and more sultry, In the absence of any clear sunshine, but the fall hat pursues its relentless course towards a winter ideal, writes a Paris correspondent. You really require courage to put head out of doors in a smart French watering place, with a straw hat pinned to your hair. The French milliner utterly taboos even a Panama, and white felt, dark plush and such Jike cosy materials are forced upon her unwilling clients. But as the season advances, the hat grows less and less simple. One seen at the riding trials at Dinard this week was a round and close-fitting hat, in a klpd of white panne, that was irregular enough in surface to take all manner of lights upon It. This had for trimming the plumage of two birds of Paradise in the gorgeous natural coppery tint that we seldom see. As you may imagine, it was costly enough to be suitable at the smartest functions, and will probably be seen at Aix-les-Bains.