Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — Three Chic Hats for General Wear [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Three Chic Hats for General Wear

In the matter of hats for general wear women are growing more and more exacting. They demand simplicity—in appearance, at least —excellence in lines and workmanship, and elegance in effect. That is, a hat which deserves to be called tailored is made to serve for the same sort of wear as a tailored gown. But an examination of real tailored millinery reveals that its simplicity is only a matter of appearance, while its construction is anything but simple. In the best grades of hats of this kind every one concerned in their manufacture and finishing must give the best of his talent. The tricorne reappears each season, with modifications in size and contour, among the favorite shapes for tailored millinery. A pretty example of it appears here in a dark brown “liseret” straw with flat crown of brown velvet which forms also a border for the coronet. The coronet is wider at the left side, giving a good upwardsweeping line across the face, twohandsome quills, in the brown and tan and gray colorings which are marvels of beauty in pheasant feathers, are mounted at the right side, one of them parallel with the right coronet and one springing upward across the crown to the high point of the cor-

onet at the left aide. The hat is worn tilted upward at the left, and forms a graceful and becoming bead covering on which the two glorious quills call attention to the incomparable markings and shadings in natural leathers. A pretty hat in* black is made of milan straw braid is a shape which suggests the shepherdess. The crown is oval and the brim curves upward and widens a little at the left It is trimmed with a collar of white satin, and a black feather pompon poised at the right side, near the front. Lines are beautifully balanced in this shape, and black and white as a combination make the hat available with any color that may be chosen in the costume. A remarkable achievement in millinery art is shown in the third hat. It is made of several thicknesses of black malines stretched over a fine wire frame. Rows of “ripper’' straws *1 black are applied to the malines on the brim and side crown. The top crown is soft, without supporting wires, Since airy malines have been made waterproof, it is thoroughly practical for ordinary wear, and the transparent black hat so beautifully made is perfect millinery. It is trimmed with a fan of goura feathers dyed black and mounted at the right front.