Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1913 — For a Shopping Tour and a Promenade [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For a Shopping Tour and a Promenade

TWO hats, each in the moderate size which this season demands of stylish millinery, are contrasted here. One of them belongs to the class known as “tailored’* millinery, while the other belongs to a class designated as “trimmed hats.” This distinction means that one of them ip meant for the street and utility wear, while the other may be worn on the street, but answers the purpose of a dress hat as well. The hat of white velour faced and bound with black velvet could hardly be more simple than it is. The narrowest of velvet bands encircles the crown, finished 'with a little flat bow in front, two broad, short wings, soft and easily adjusted, are placed at the back, and form the sole trimming. The shape is plain, but not at all stiff. The crown is rather soft. The brim droops a little at each side, and; lifts at the front, reminding one of a poke shape. It Is the flexibility of the brim and the suggestion of softness in the crown which makes this shape so elegant. A hat of velvet with the brim narrow at the front and widening toward the back until It become a wide brim, is among the largest and most becoming of hats for youthful faces. The shape has a moderately large crown.

with round top. The upper and under brim and th* top crown are covered with velvet put' on plain. A puff of velvet shirred on a fine wire covers the side crown. The brim is edged with a puff of velvet, also, which forms a double ruffle and makes a soft frame for the face. At the back two ostrich plumes in the natural colors .are mounted back to back. They are (shaded from white, with brown markings to brown, with a little admixture of white at the tips. A sash of wide moire ribbon in black is laid about the crown and tied in a bow at the front These two hats are among those which may be attempted at home with fair chances of success. There are somethings which the home mil- > liner may do; and others that she is more than likely to fail in If she undertakes them. Nearly' all hats this season require the knowledge and facility of the professional milliner to make them successfully. But shapes ready to trim, and bought with a facing provided, or buckram shapes that may be easily covered, like that on which this velvet hat is made, are not too difficult for the good needle woman who is ambitious enough to attempt them. Her milliner, too, will advise her.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.