Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1914 — Marks a Triumph in Millinery. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Marks a Triumph in Millinery.

ONE of the pretty brimmed hats (of which there have been comparatively few this winter) is pictured here. It has proved so successful that it will very likely reappear in spring millinery made up in spring fabrics and trimmed with flowers. The shape is apparently rather simple, but it takes a fine knowledge of the frame-makers’ art to strike so good a balance between crown and brim, to fit the rolling brim so easily to the head and to achieve so much grace and becomlngness. It is a shape especially suited to the low style of coiffure. TherS are similar shapes with smaller crowns, or with soft crowns, to be worn with the new high coiffures. The body of the hat is covered with a soft, fine millinery crepe Or with crepe de chine. It is laid in tucks over the brim and in folds of the same width on the upper brim. Over this there is a draping of two thicknesses of fine mallne. The under brim is faced, with black velvet A hat made in this way, with the always becoming black velvet facing framing' the face and hair, .may be made up with any other color In combination. As it is a hat for dressy wear, some of the light and fascinating

shades, in gold and salmon or in coral, are very effective. Turquoise and other? blues are good, and the lighter strong: greens are wonderful. One may in* dulge in brilliant color, since it is veiled in black and the brimming Is is black also. This consists of a band of black velvet ribbon about an inch and a half wide, at the base of the crown, and a butterfly (or the distant relative of a butterfly) fashioned of maline and velvet on a wire foundation. A very simple bow of three loops and three end* is tied becomingly at the base of the ornament. To make such a hat requires a professional knowledge of millinery. It has all the elements of style and ic excellent in every regard. The brim if wider at the back than at the front droops a little before it begins to roll upward, and is not easy to cover with velvet. The overlay of maline soften* the outline and tones down a brilliant—color to the proper reserve. And the whole shapely hat is given charactei by the saucy and rather absurd butter fly ornament. Pretty as it is, it might pass almost unnoticed, except for th« ornament. This is its note of triumph ' —and all that it needed.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.