Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1915 — Featuring Novel Ideas in Trimming [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Featuring Novel Ideas in Trimming

It is true that a hat of almost any Bhape may be found among the newly arrived fall millinery and worn with entire confidence as to its good style. For hats are of all sizes and shapes, and the mode demands only that each one be good to look at, not that it shall be similar to others. There are a few novelties in shapes that have made themselves prominent like the Puritan, and adaptations from it—the Puritan sailor, for instance. There are high-crowned sailors, of any desired width of brim, and many wide-brimmed hats. But one may choose a small, close-fitting turban, a tricorne or a quadrangular shape, or depend upon irregular lines and eccentricities of brim for effect Three attractive and conservative hats are pictured in the group above. They demonstrate the diversity in size and shape that one may choose from. The picturesque hat at the top is one of many wide-brimmed hats. It has a flexible brim, very becoming to youthful wearers, and depends for novelty on its trimming of heavy woolen yarns. A spray of leaves made

of yarn is embroidered on the side crown and brim, and the brim-edge is bound with a strip of woven angora. An exquisite hat at the left of the group is made of silk laid over a familiar sailor shape. It is a brocade with flower motifs in silver and gold threads. As in fie big velvet hat, a concession to the demand of the season for simplicity in trimming is evidenced in this band of black velvet ribbon about the crown. It is finished with two loops and two hanging ends at the back, with the velvet cleverly shirred into ball ornaments to weight the ends. This is a shape that is worn by maid or matron, with the management of the trimming adapting it to the age of the wearer. The same thing is true of the turban at the right It has a soft crown of velvet and a coronet covered with a band of novel embroidery, made of silk and little sequins. For trimming, a tall ear of velvet springs from a small circle of ostrich fibers, and is mounted on the crown at the right side toward the back of the shape.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.