Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1914 — For High Occasions in Midsummer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For High Occasions in Midsummer

WITH the oncoming of hot weather and the season of outings and midsummer festivities, millinery begins to adapt itself to its surroundings. For June weddings, any one of the three hate pictured here would be a happy choice for the bridesmaid. As beautiful and buoyant as butterflies, these hats are designed for the ephemera] summertime; two of them, at least, in an ephemeral style. However brief their little lives, beauty and originality are theirs. Originality so striking, in fact, that these hats are unique, but of a character not likely to be repeated. Hats similar to the largest one of the three we are likely to have always with us, but the other two, we have, not seen their like before, and others, drawn from the realm of fancy and poetry, will replace theta In the next summertime. - The large hat of point d’esprit net and lace Is really a wide brim made of a lace raffle, mounted on a cap made of the net .This cap, edged with a band of black velvet, sets down an the head. The scant raffle of line lace is supported by short wires and gathered at the inner edge over a wire. The raffle la sat on the cap at a picturesque angle. There is a wreath

of small flowers about the brim and a large rosette of them set against the bandeau and the underbrim. • The pretty, ally, pure-white hat, which looks something like a white orchid ip millinery, and something like a glorified sunbonnet, is made of a white hair braid plateau, white ribbon and the petals white chrysanthemums. There Is a draping of white mallne over the top, fastened with two small rosettes of black velvet, one at each side. The hat is shaped with fine wire supports, the back portion filled in with a foundation of wire net covered with broad bows of ribbon. Mallne in black with hair lace braid make up the wonderful little pleoe of millinery art worn by the girl with a fan. There is a small, round hat of shirred mallne and hajr lace over a wire frame. Ruffles of mating with thread wire Inclosed in hems, apparently, provide what passes for a brim, but is in reality a misty halo about the faep These hats follow no set style. They are not freakish. They are beautiful efforts on the part of some artist who la able to take the frivolous materials at hand Interpret the gaiety of youth and midsummer with them.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.