Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1914 — Mourning Millinery in Lats Designs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mourning Millinery in Lats Designs

MOURNING millinery in new designs, for spring and summer wear, has no strikingly new features to offer- — and does not need any. The smaller turban and toque shapes, which are familiar in other kinds of millinery, have afforded the best of foundations for specialists who make mourning hats. The persistent draping of veils at the back and the use of a portion of the veil as a drape for the body of the hat, are noticeable in all the best displays. And the use of net bordered with crape is a concession to comfort which »has also oeauty to commend it. On the round sailor shapes, with brims one sees occasionally square veils of net bordered with crape or of chiffon, finished with woven-in border, that are placed to fall over the face and are thrown **ack over the hat. Two very good examples of unpretentious but elegant hats of crape are shown in the illustration that heads this article. The toque, in all black crape, has a coronetmade of folds laid about it in diagonal lines. The crown

Is covered with the plain crape. The long net veil is held cornerwise and pinned, at one corner of the toque at the right side toward the back. It is laid in folds without any attempt at regularity, and pinned down to the hat with pins having dull black heads. This brings the broad part of the veil below the shoulders and gives an effect of length which is achieved without weight. This design for first mourning may be duplicated in white crape for summer wear. But with the black net bordered with crape used as a substitute for the all-crape veil, and the drapery all falling from the back, the design is not heavy or burdensome. A round hat faced with white crape, with drape and trimming of black very attractive, depending for its charm upon good lines and workmanship of exquisite neatness. The white next the face and hair will be found more becoming to the majority of wearers than al! black.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.