Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — If You Need a Hat [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

If You Need a Hat

With midwinter just past and spring only a promise, she who needs to buy a new hat must first put on her thinking cap. Subject to her choice are the demi-season and tourist's hats that fire presented at this time, and they include hats of satin or faille or velvet or straw or any of these fabrics combined with stra*. and, along with .these, hats of crepe or leather or tulle. Nearly all of them carry a more or less evident message of springtime in their makeup. But among even these are hats adapted to present wear where the snow flies. Two lovely demi-season hats are shown in the picture above. At the left the hat of taupe-colored satin has a crown which displays great modera tion in height compared to the modish email hats already shown for spring, it has a quandrangular brim with gradeful upward curves, and the satin is put on the frame in plaits, excepting the top crown, where It is plain. < : A wreath made up of small leaves, blaek berries and little deep pink button chrysanthemums lies about,ths edge of the soft top crown. At the front and back a bow of narrow faille ribbon, in nattier blue, is posed. This pink and blue combination is a conspicuous toifch is spring millinery, but it is overborne in this instance by the dark color of the foliage, and ber-

Ties. Altogether this is a hat in whlcn its wearer will be willing to meet almost any kind of weather. At the right a wider-brimmed Imt dares to herald the expected spring with a brim covered with a lustrous dark-brown straw, and to smile at winter with a crown of coral-pink faille silk. Applied to the crown are made flowers and leaves and stems of silk, very rich and substantial looking. Altogether. this hat will meet the weather gracefully, come what will, and is a good choice for the tourist, or anyone else.