Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1914 — Pretty Spring Sailors and Other Hats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pretty Spring Sailors and Other Hats

IT will be a dull eye indeed that does not brighten at sight of the adorably pretty new sailors which have bloomed out In millinery show rooms. In all the bfight colors of spring flowers the hats are attractive and becoming in themselves. No season has presented more tasteful trimming or so high an average of quality in materials. The last statement may be qualified by observing that millinery trimmings have every appearance of good quality, at least, which is much to the credit of manufacturers, for the problem of meeting the advance in popular taste which constantly runs ahead of the increase In average income, keeps the manufacturer wearing his thinking cap overtime. Two of the new sailors are shown here, and one of those graceful, fancy shapes, with chin strap of velvet, which set off a pretty face so well. The sailors are of hemp with oblong crowns and curved brims. There is a little variation in the brims; some of them are more nearly straight than others, but a little curve is found ,in the majority. Crowns are nearly all of only medium height Those that are round are used with wider brims and for hats of lace or net ’ It would not ba easy to find a more

effective trimming than the velvet band with wreath of foliage and fruit posed over it which adorns the hat at the left. Quite often the trimming of fruit or flowers is in tints -and shades of the color which appears in the body of the hat A band of jetted net finished with pompons of black mallne Is used for garniture on the hat at the right This decoration is quiet and is effectively used on many of the new colors in straw shapes. The brilliance of the jet and the light gay colors of the shapes go well together. It is a simple matter to place the trimming on hats of this kind. The hat at the top of the picture is an admirable shape made of Milan straw. Its proportions are beautiful, and the careful management of the curving brim shows how mucb the maker of shapes can do toward the success of a hat. It is trimmed with a band of wide velvet ribbon with small bouquets of flowers set against it, and a rosette at each side. The chin strap of velvet fastens with a snap at one side just at the head-size. This is a modern hat—an original conception—and a credit to whoever thought out its well-bal-anced and becoming lines.

JULIA BOTTOMLEf,