Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1916 — Brilliant Headdress for Evening [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Brilliant Headdress for Evening

. A brilliant headdress, which may do duty as a dance cap, or for theater wear, is all made up of sparkle and midnight blackness. Banks of rhinestones, with black malines and narrow velvet ribbons, are the means' by which the starry sky is translated into a bit of headwear for the brow of beauty. There is no getting away from the suggestion of the night sky which this fascinating cap sings into the mind. One of the advantages of caps made like the one pictured above is that, they soften the severity of the most popular of this season's coiffures. This coiffure Heaves the brow uncovered and reserves its fluffiness for the hair about the ears. It is wonderfully youthful looking. Which accounts, perhaps, for its flourishing in the face of the fact "that its severity is often unbecoming. But a band of narrow velvet ribbon about the brows, or a small cap worn with it, recompenses the brow for the absence of softly curling hair. There ard several beautiful coiffures for those who cannot or will not wear the “Bobby.” Among them the “Recamier” deserves its distinguished name. 1 It is fascinating, simply on the

strength of being beautiful. It has a center part, with hair curved over the forehead .. at each side, clusters of short curls at the crown of the head, and short curling ends about the ears. If the rest of Mme. Recamier’s beauty was up to the standard of this coiffure it is quite believable that she did not need to converse further than to say, “How do you, do?” and “Good-by.” The little cap pictured is not difficult to make, but the rhinestone bands are rather expensive. They may be bought by the yard. The cap is merely a puff of doubled malines set into a band of velvet. Single strands of rhinestones are sewed across it in a lattice-work pattern, and several rows are sewed about the headband. A bridle and long “follow-me-lad” streamers of narrow velvet ribbon add grace to the dancer about whom they float.