Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — Regal Millinery [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Regal Millinery

Some hats look queenly when poised on even the most prosaic of hat stands, although they are sadly out of place there. They belong on the head of youthful beauty and deserve the adoring admiration which they compel. Two such wonderful- hats are pictured here. One of them is of Lyons velvet, with a feather band in snowy white barred with black, let in about the brim edge. Feathers of a pearllike surface, and hundreds of them are required for this border. Each tiny feather must be exactly placed and sewed, down to a foundation. Such a decoration represents hours, perhaps several days, of painstaking work. Not much more is needed on the hat. Two clusters of white heron are poised on the underbrim where it lifts most from-the face. A folded scarf of satin ribbon is

laid flat to the upper brim from side to side. This is one of those triumphs of millinery art of which one cannot grow tired, and which outlives the changing fashions, always a style which will hold its own. It may be worn for many seasons. More picturesque, a big hat made of rich white satin overlaid with richer lace, proclaims the work of an artist. It is a hat to inspire the painter’s brush. The wide, flowing brim is edged with folds of chiffon. The brim has just the right droop. # A collar of velvet is laid about the brim at its junction with the crown and finished in the simplest of ties. Two lovely roses bloom against the under brim, and they may be of any color which the wearer elects, but must be the very best that the flowermaker knows how to produce.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.