Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1914 — Ostrich Plumes and Fancy Feathers [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ostrich Plumes and Fancy Feathers

NOTHING is so noticeable in the most elegant millinery prepared for the fall season as ostrich feathers. Short, broad plumes and tips lead in popularity. After them ostrich feathers developed in fancy forms have demonstrated the ingenuity of manufacturers in copying flower forms and in originating all sorts of new decorations. This fancy ostrich is to take the place of prohibited aigrettes, much to the satisfaction of all right-thinking people. America having taken the initiative in doing away with the aigrette, French and other designers have replaced it with ostrich and other fancy feathers quite as airy and beautiful. , Many ofHse new shapes are widebrimmed, and wide brime always mean long and short plumes. Three hats are shown here In which the use of ostrich plumes hi the best of mountings may be studied. It will be seen that one may hse a single plume of medium length, or two long plumes, or many short ones, with equally artistic effect. But for some time the simgjeet forms of trimming have characterized th,e work of the greatest designers, and a single plume of finest quality mounted on a velvet hat leaves nothing to be desired in the way of art and elegance. The black velvet hat (shown lit the picture) having a narrow brim at the right side, which widens and lifts to the left, is decorated with a single jrbite plume.

This plume is mounted on the underbrlm, and its full, broad end, or “head," falis across the hair and back brim. The beautiful picture hat, having a wreath of ostrich tips about its brim, with ends curling upward toward the crown, is finished with a half plume on the bandeau and underbrim at the left. To ad<J any further trimming to this modql would be as foolish as adorning the lily or painting the rose. A wide-brimmed hat, in which e single magaiflcenMfrume is mounted on the crown at the right side, is most original and daring in its use of ostrich. The end of the plume is cut off at the' beginning of the flues. The plume le laid upon the crown and sewed down in two places. It is left free to curl and curve at its own sweet and graceful will. A narrow band of handsome moire ribbon, tied in the simplest of .bows at the left side, finishes the hat. In this model the body of the hat amounts to simply a potting for the plume, which is featured by the manner in which it is placed. Ostrich plumes and tips in fine quality make a good investment because no matter what the vagaries of fashion they are never “out." JULIA BOTTOM LEY. It is sad to see family relics sold at auction, but the most pitiful thing under the hammer is generally your thumb nail.—Ldndon Tit-Blta.