Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — FOR. QUIET TASTE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR. QUIET TASTE

Although elderly women allow themselves much greater latitude in the matter of shapes, when choosing millinery, than they did a few years ago, some of them look best in the close fitting comfortably made toques and continue to wear only this variety of headwear. But they like a change In methods of trimming and minor changes in shape, such as a variation in crown or brim outlines from season to season. A very handsome toque is shown here, designed to meet just the demands made by elderly women of quiet taste. It is made of black silk having a high luster, and trimmed with wings and covered cords. It fits well down over the head and does not require a bandeau;

Hats of this character may be worn with a veil. The brim extends out at the front and prevents the veil from catching in eye-glasses. As veils are neat and becoming and, more especially as they hold straggling hair in place, a small hat should be shaped so that one may be worn with them. There are numbers of soft, closefitting shapes for those who are not wedded to the toque, and among these very novel designs in turbans. Many crowns are flexible and brims are not entirely rigid, being made over rice net foundations. Short curling plumes are used on many of them. Wings and breasts, however, have proven the most popular for trimming velvet turbans.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.