Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — ALL SORTS OF SPORTS HATS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALL SORTS OF SPORTS HATS.

Sports and outing hats are classed as one in a new department of millinery that stands for the spirit of the times. There are all sortß of sports hats, from the low-priced but chic fabric-covered shapes which one may buy for a very few dollars, to the expensive hand-wrought shapes with handmade garnitures that cost their possessors several times $lO. But sports hats are luxuries which all may enjoy—an extra hat with which the new woman expresses her devotion to out-of-doors and the pleasures of summer time. Besides innumerable fabric-covered hats there are sports hats made of millinery braids and other millinery materials which give designers ample opportunity to depart from the ordinary in creations unlike other millinery. Originality is much prized and the fancy is allowed free play in hats of this character, so that unexpected and evqn novelties find ready following. Among the most successful of those lately produced are shapes with round crowns and flexible brims, covered with Turkish toweling in cream color. Fruits and flowers are made of this unpromising material for trimming them, but paint has become a part of the milliners’ equipment, and their fruits and. flowers show what the artist can do with

homely- material. These bats are high in price and in the favor of fashionables. A hat made of small silk pieces in many different colors, joined together with hemstitching, appears to be inspired by the “crazy quilt” of other Says. As patchwork is an American art this bit of bright headwear ought to appeal to Americans. At any rate it is faced with a plain satin and is beautifully made, flaunting its gay colors among fine Panamas and Bangkoks whose elegance is never questioned. Stripes have lodged themselves firmly in the popular mind as the best of the several styles in materials used for sports hats and other sports clothes. A hart and sweater coat are pictured here made of blue and white knitted fabric, and* a hat of white canvas cloth with varicolored stripes. They are dependable styles for outing wear.. ; .f ■ '