Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — Late Summer Hats for the Home Milliner [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Late Summer Hats for the Home Milliner

EVERY season an increasing number of women undertake to trim, or rotrim, hats for themselves. There is no reason why they should not succeed. The first requirement is the selection of an untrimmed shape that is becoming. After that the amateur milliner should select a ready trimmed hat, of similar shape, and proceed to copy as closely as possible the work of a professional trimmer. Three attractive late-summer hats are pictured here which the home milliner will find are not difficult to copy. In Fig. 1 a popular shape is trimmed in a very simple but effective manner. A band of leghorn braid, three-quar-ters of a yard of satin and two roses provide the materials required. The braid band may be of other straw or silk braid. The hat is lined with a strip of thin silk or mull. The brim is faced with a bias band of satin, sewed on plain around the edge. The fullness, at the head-size, is disposed of by an occasional plait laid,in the goods. A very fine needle, and silk thread, that matches the leghorn in color, must be used in sewing the facing. On the upper brim make very short stitches, concealed under a fiber of the braid.. The edge is finished by slip-stitching a narrow band about it. Pale pink, blue or cream white, are good colors to choose for the facing. The crown is covered with a circular piece of satin stretched over it and sewed down in shallow plaits. The braid band 18 finished on both edges with a narrow piping of satin. After it is sewed to place, the roses are mounted and sewed down with heavy millinery thread. Three small flat bows made of strips of satin, laid

in French folds, are sewed over the stems of the roses. Graceful Shape With Plaited Ribbon Trim. —One of the prettiest and simplest trimmings is shown in Fig. 2. A wide ribbon is accordion plaited and laid about the crown of a graceful crown and more than half way to the edge of the brim. The plaits are stretched so that they stand out from the hat and are tacked with tiny stitches to the straw. There is a wreath made of various wild flowers, buttercups, clover blossoms, etc. It extends about the hat over the plaited ribbon. . Hat With Moderately Wide Brim. — A mode which is full of style is set forth in Fig. 3. It has a moderately wide brim and a low crown and is of hemp braid in amethyst color. The brim is faced with a shirring of pale lavender chiffon. This is made ks a bias strip, folded along the middle and shirred into a narrow ruffle near the folded edge. This shirred chiffon Is slip-stitched to the under brim and gathered to the bandeau at the other edge. A folded strip of satin ribbon, matching the crown in eblor, is laid over the bandeau. The crown is covered with a circular piece of satin of the Same color as the straw. It is put on in a loose puff, the edge is turned under, gathered in a narrow ruffle, and sewed to the base of the crown. At each sVie sprays of wheat, with small garden flowers, are mounted near the back. A bow of ribbon, like that which covers the bandeau, is sewed flat against the under brim at the back. JULIA BOTTOMLEY.