Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — Fashion's fancies [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fashion's fancies

IN BLACK AND WHITE

PREVAILING COLORS FOR MILLINERY THIS SEASON. Fancy Brims One of the Marked Features of the Styles—Soft Hats in Good Felts to Be Seen in Profusion. It is a good thing that black and white never grow tiresome, for millinery finds them predominating in all sorts of hats this fall. Two smart designs for street wear are shown here,

of white felt faced with black velvet. In accordance with the characteristics of the season, the brims are fancy, one of them showing a wing-shaped extension and the other the slashing and turnings that have proved so advantageous to the trimmer. Small, flat bows, covered buttons, button and button hole trimmings appear on models of this class. Most of them have soft crowns made over rice net with very little wiring. These hats do not require bandeaux except for heads smaller than the average. In such cases it is better to Introduce a padded head-band in the

crown than -to use a stiff bandeau. The hat continues to be perfectly comfortable, and sets on the head in the manner of a man’s hat. Many soft hatss&re Bhown in good felts, and most of the stiffer ones (rear soft. Such hats are trimmed svith fancy feathers, Boft wings and flexible quills suiting them admirably, Younger women like them especially, as they be adjusted in tny poise.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.