Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1915 — To Lend Beauty to Summer Fetes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

To Lend Beauty to Summer Fetes

Hats that are frivolous, along with hats that are dignified and picturesque, make place for themselves among hats that are merely sensible, for wear on the rounds of midsummer days and nights. But all must be chic and bespeak the part they are to play, leaving no room in the mind for doubt ou that score.

Here are two that belong to the dignified and picturesque coterie, shown with examples of flowers that are liked on millinery of this kind. They bring to mind weddings and garden fetes and all sorts of charming, gay occasions to which they will lend their own beauty. Millinery holds the center of the stage where those who aspire to elegance in dress assemble and make a part of the occasion. The wearer of either of these hats will be entitled to feel complacent as to her headwear no matter how much elegance may vie with her own. Honors may be divided, but she will not be outshone. The large light hat is of flesh-pink georgette crepe and malines with daisies and wheat in a wreath about the crown. The wheat is of white chiffon and silk fibers, and the daisies have petals of satin in white and in light blue and pink. Thia hat has a double brim, the wider, lower brim of malines bound with crepe, and the overbrim of crepe. A narrow black velvet ribbon encircles the crown and is tied in a little

bow at the back. The ends are brought over the brim and fastened on the under brim, hanging from there in long ties that are never tied.

The lovely black hat of malines and lace, braid is made on similar lines except that its brim is curving. The lace braid over-lay on the malines brim has the effect of a double brim. The wreath of white satin oats is brightened by a single rose that deep* ens to pink at its center and is mounted on the crown at the left side. Narrow black ribbon finishes a bandeau at the left and falls tn long ends at the back.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.