Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1915 — Group of Approved Sailors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Group of Approved Sailors

One may see in this group of sailors the progression in width of brim as the style becomes more summery in composition and suggestion. Under this title of sailors, it seems, about seventenths of the season’s shapes may be classed. A flat brim of uniform width leaves us in no doubt, but then there are rolling brimmed sailors, too. But these sailors shown in th/e picture are selections to which the milliner points with a pride that is well justified — while she turns her attention to making new ones with increasing width of brim with which to greet the advancing summer. At the right a pretty hemp hat is pictured. It is a soft-appearing, pressed shape with slightly indented crown, in battleship gray. Two bands of velvet ribbon, unequal in width, in a fairly strong blue color, encircle the crown. Four ornaments are set over these bands. They are made of suede kid stretched over a supporting foundation. The kid is in the cglor of the hat and forms a background for a spi-der-web design in needlework wrought in blue of a silk fiber used in millinery. Coral beads are added to this to make the attractive and substantial-looking ornament. At the upper left a beautifully woven Chinese straw hat in the natural straw color allows the use of narrow brown faille ribbon in a unique trimming. Short lengths of the ribbon are thrust through spaces between the straws of which the shape is made. Cherries are set in a close row about

the base of the crown and the ribbon terminates in clipped ends on the brim. The third sailor is a fine milan in sand color with big daisies and shaded blue forget-me-nots set close against the side crown. These (and all the crown) are veiled with malines in the color of the shape stretched over them. Narrow velvet ribbon in blue, made into sqgall, flat bows with triple ends, extends about the crown in a band with bows posed flat on the brim.