Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1915 — MARKED CHANGE IN STYLES [ARTICLE]

MARKED CHANGE IN STYLES

Embroidered Hats Are by No Means of the Same Design as Those of Last Year. The embroidered hat, which resembled nothing more nor less than a table centerpiece (and sometimes really was) made into a bit of millinery, is, to all appearances, “nil” this seaspn. A different type of embroidered hat is to be worn —that of georgette crepe or some similar semitransparent material (occasionally opaque materials are used), embroidered in white or colors, principally the latter, tn large, bold stitches of coarse silk. The embroidered hat of this season is not so “fluffy” as in former years, but is drawn over a bhekram or stiffened net frame into trim smoothness, so that it is exactly the shape of the frame and entirely without ruffles. The material is sometimes embroidered before being applied to the frame and at other times embroidered after being drawn over the buckram or stiffened net, the threads being taken right through to the wrong side of the frame. Some of the smartest models are embroidered in conventional designs at equal distances apart, and as symmetrically arranged as the designs upon wallpaper. If there is no time to really embroider the “embroidered” hat, voiles of georgette crepes by the yard having wonderful machine embroidery upon them can be substituted very effectively. The “centerpiece” hat is considered quite correct for kiddies, however, though even in these juvenile instances the stitches are not so painstaking as in former years. The

French idea of effect rather than "finishing” and detail seems to have penetrated American fashions for a permanent stay.