Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1913 — New Turban Recently Evolved Is Known as the Mephisto [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

New Turban Recently Evolved Is Known as the Mephisto

There Is a new turban which is but developed in black, lustrous braids, and it has been christened the Mephisto. This sinister name seems to apply, inasmuch as his Satanic majesty has always been considered interesting and that is what may also be said of the new turban. It is a narrow, close-fitting hat with an oval crown and a coronet sloping up to sharp points at the front. It is made of a fine, lustrous and pliable black braid. At the front two standing antennae stamp the turban with a certain individuality. Although made all of black no one will pronounce this piece of millinery either quiet or somber. On the contrary, it is full of “go” and suggests a little Mischief.

The same shape, with coronet omitted, is finished with folded maline in bands of red, blue, green and yellow in the strong shades, this season called Bulgarian. A vivid cockade, made of silk fibers in green, black and red stands up at the front exactly like the brush at the front of a drum major’s hat. There is such a flavor of the Orient in this creation that it has been variously named, but always with reference to India or some other far eastern country where the people dare to use color in a way we call barbaric. But we find they glow like jewels and prove captivating. We buy them. This oriental turban and the Mephisto make an interesting pair.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.